South Bronx, South South Bronx…is the new Brooklyn, in the sense that rapacious waterfront development is set to make some people really rich, more people really angry and potentially change the face of an entire borough. And if you thought this would happen quietly, with mutual respect from all parties involved, the news from this weekend is going to crush you: Developers trying to hype up their new apartment complex and rebranded neighborhood in the South Bronx threw a rich person art rave that was either a disgusting display of wealth like something out of The Hunger Games or a charming evening with Gigi Hadid, Carmelo Anthony and real estate bigwigs.
On the one hand, you’ve got the Daily News‘ report on the evening, which is heavy on the attempts to make rich people feel shame:
We’re holding out some hope this was some kind of stunt secretly organized by Jacobin so as to forment a faster class war, because the alternative (NYC’s real estate and monied interests feel so bulletproof that they’re comfortable throwing a poverty-face party in a neighborhood where 40% of the population is on federal assistance) is just depressing.
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This is 100% real do not hold out any hope that it was not. I was invited to this through a promotional thing. It was marketed as a gallery opening. I almost went as I'm artistically inclined and thought hey gallery opening why not. I'm dying of embarrassment and am beyond glad I was not there. How dare these developers throw some moneyed up, coked out bacchanalia in the face of the residents of the South Bronx. WTF?!