$$$$! Over by the riverside in Williamsburg, there’s a slew of new condos being built. There’s a lot of cash floating around there now, but it still looks as junky and decrepit in some spots as it’s always been. Dominicans and Hasidim have been pushed farther away from Bedford Ave. and Driggs. The rich kids who are getting places eastward have gone to calling their part of Bushwick “East Williamsburg”. Pah. There are a lot of skinny-jeans-wearing and ironic-mustache-sporting hipsters. I have seen a few people dressed like preps running around, but very few. The Bowery is experiencing similar gentrification. CBGB’s is gone. There’s a lot of new condo development and a Whole Foods down there. There’s a nifty museum there too. The streets are cleaned up and the homeless have mostly gone elsewhere in the city. The Salvation Army is still there, but it’s gotten a bit of a facelift. However, that old Victorian-looking abandoned building is still abandoned and still covered with graffiti. There’s more of a blend of hipsters and yupsters in the Bowery than in Willimasburg.