The Edge of New York

"I was walking over to meet a friend the other day in these villages, and I walked down a block," he says. "There were a bunch of dudes hanging out on the side, and there were a guy who said quietly, if you know what's good for you, you won't come back here" He adds that New Yorkers can't totally gentrify their neighborhoods because of rent control laws. But it still has a certain character that is quite different to the rest of New York,. It's just a great place if you feel like you're travelling permanently You go away for two weeks, and you come back, you know, some new store or whatever, it's like