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New York Magazine blasts SF techies’ NYC ‘Neighborhood’

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"This neighborhood will not embrace you, we will loathe you and curse you."

A photo inside the Morgan Avenue subway stop in Brooklyn. Fawn G./Yelp Some San Francisco expats are desperately vying to innovate on New York City neighborhoods, already microcosms of multicultural and multigenerational vibrancy, by infusing the ethos of a tech startup into gentrification. A write-up from Curbed writer Clio Chang sheds light into the Neighborhood NYC, a small cohort of San Francisco techies and friends who want to get “1000 ambitious, diverse nerds into one square mile of each other” in Bushwick, according to a now-deleted Substack post by co-founder Priya Rose. Article…

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