ʻO ka hale ʻaina Kina ma kēlā ʻaoʻao o ke alanui mai iaʻu - kekahi o nā hui hope loa, nā kumu kūʻai kūpono ma ke kaiāulu - ua pani ʻia i ka hopena pule i hala. Ua hoʻonui ʻia kā lākou hoʻolimalima a hoʻonui ʻia ka uku hoʻolimalima mai $5,000 o ka mahina a i $25,000.
ʻAʻole he mea maʻamau kēia lele nui ʻana ma West Village, kahi ʻāpana o Greenwich Village ma Manhattan haʻahaʻa, a ua lilo ia i ʻāpana pipiʻi a me ke ʻano o ke kūlanakauhale a hiki ke kipaku koke ʻia au no ka uhaki ʻana i ke code fashion a me ka hoʻohuli curve on median loaʻa.
ʻO ka mea nona ka hale ʻaina, nāna i hoʻokele i kona wahi no ʻekolu mau makahiki, ʻoluʻolu loa ia. "Maopopo iaʻu," Ua haʻi ʻo ia i ka blog ʻaina, Pāʻani. "He kiʻekiʻe loa nā waiwai waiwai ma kēia wahi."
He ʻōlelo haʻahaʻa kēlā. ʻO ka hapa nui o ke alanui ʻo Bleecker, no ka laʻana, i ka wā i hoʻopaʻa ʻia ai kahi ala nui o Village o bohemia i nā mele a Joni Mitchell, Bruce Springsteen a me Iggy Pop, i kēia manawa he mini-Fifth Avenue o nā hale kūʻai kiʻekiʻe a me nā hale kūʻai kaulahao mai nā mea like me Marc Jacobs, Michael Kors, Ralph Lauren, Brooks Brothers a me Coach. Ua pau ka hapa nui o nā hale kūʻai ʻai a me nā hale kūʻai leʻaleʻa, nā mom-a-pop i hāʻawi i ka ʻāina i kona ʻano ʻokoʻa.
Ua pau no hoi ka nui o na oihana kaiapuni e hoolilo ana i kahi kaiāulu i wahi kaiapuni, i paniia e na hale makamae a me na pono e ae no ka poe waiwai e hoopau ana ko lakou makemake i na mea i lilo ai keia wahi i wahi maikai e noho ai ma kahi mua. ʻO kahi poloka ma ka ʻākau mai kēlā hale ʻaina Pākē i pani ʻia i kēia manawa, ʻo ia ke kahua kahiko o ka Halemai o St. AIDS (he paionia ia i ka mālama HIV-AIDS). Ola mai ka Titanic a me ke ahi Triangle Shirtwaist Factory i laweia mai ilaila, a ma ka la 9/11, ua kali hoomanawanui kona mau limahana lapaau i na poino.
Akā, ʻelima mau makahiki a me ka hapa i hala aku nei, ua paʻa a pani ʻia ʻo St. Vincent, i loko o ka banekorupa a me nā hawanawana o ka ʻōlelo ʻia ʻana o ka hui pū ʻana me nā mea hoʻomohala e makemake nui e kau i ko lākou mau lima ma luna o kekahi mau waiwai waiwai. ka New York Post hōʻike pū ʻia, i ka makahiki 2011, ke noiʻi nei ka loio ʻāpana ʻo Manhattan "inā i hoʻopaʻa pono ʻo honchos i kāna kālā i hiki ke kūʻai ʻia." ʻAʻohe mea i loaʻa mai ka moʻolelo a i ʻole ka lono a i kēia manawa, ke kū nei ma luna o ka ʻāina kahi i hoʻōla ai a me ke aloha i ka manawa a pau a pau loa, he mau condominiums nani.
Kēia hopena pule, The New York Times hoike Ua kūʻai ʻia nā condo mua ʻelua: "Ua kūʻai ʻia kahi papa ʻewalu no $19,528,202.36 a ʻo ia ke kūʻai kūʻai nui loa i pani ʻia o ka pule, a ʻo kekahi, ʻehā papa ma lalo, kūʻai ʻia no $16,320,623.57."
I kēlā me kēia hihia, he inoa ʻole ka poʻe kūʻai. ʻO ka manawa "ʻO ke kumu kūʻai o nā keʻena i kūʻai ʻia… he ʻehā lumi moe a me ʻehā a me ka ʻauʻau ʻauʻau i pālahalaha ʻia ma luna o 4,537 kapuaʻi square. ʻO ka ʻāpana, me nā koina lawe ʻana i kēlā me kēia mahina he $15,800, he hale waihona puke me kahi kapuahi, kahi keʻena home, kahi lumi hoʻohana nui me kahi holoi holoi a me kahi hale kiʻi kikowaena. Aia he wahi noho/ʻaina hāmama me nā kaupaku kaola, nā papahele herringbone ʻeleʻele a me nā ʻoki lāʻau maʻamau.
Wahi a ka pūnaewele hoʻomohala, "Ke hoʻomanaʻo nei kēia mau wahi nani i ka cachet o kahi hui pilikino Old World." ʻAʻohe mea kānalua i ke ʻano i pakele ai nā tycoons Gilded Age e like me Carnegie, Morgan, Vanderbilt a me Whitney i ka lehulehu huhū a mai nā puka makani hoʻi i kā lākou lehu cigar i nā nalo hana a me nā poʻe noho.
No laila ke hele nei ke kaiāulu. ʻO kēia mau keʻena hou ma ka ʻaoʻao o ka hale ʻaina Kina ka mea i kapa ʻia e ka poʻe ʻekekema "nā hōʻailona kūloko," he hōʻike hou aʻe e makemake ka pākēneka i ke koena o mākou e nalo i loko o ka hana lāʻau - kala mai iaʻu, ka "ʻoki lāʻau maʻamau." E like me ka hōʻike ʻana o ka hoa hana ʻo Bill Moyers i hoʻokahi makahiki i hala Moyers & Hui, "Ma waena o kā mākou mau wahi metro nui loa a waiwai loa, ʻoi aku ka liʻiliʻi ma mua o 20 pakeneka o nā hale i hiki ke kūʻai ʻia."
Ma New York City, ua ʻōlelo ʻo ia, "Ua hōʻea ka like ʻole o ka hale i nā ʻāpana Dickensian. Ke ʻoki ʻia nei ka papa waena ma ka ʻaoʻao i ka wā e hoʻonui ai ka poʻe waiwai i nā waiwai waiwai a ʻo ka poʻe ʻilihune hana e hoʻoneʻe ʻia i loko o ka squalor… loaʻa ka waiwai a me ka mana me ka nānā ʻole i ka hopena i ke ola a me nā kaiāulu o kēlā me kēia lā.
A eia kekahi wili o ka pahi ma ke kua o mākou. I ʻAukake, Laura Kusisto ma ka Wall Street Pai kakau iho la:
"ʻOiai ke holo nei ke kūkulu ʻana i nā ʻāina hoʻolimalima multifamily ma ka pae kiʻekiʻe loa i nā makahiki he nui, ʻo ka hapa nui o nā ʻāpana hou - ʻoi aku ma mua o 80% ma nā wahi metropolitan nui loa o ka ʻāina - he mea nani, e like me ka CoStar Group Inc. e hōʻoiaʻiʻo i ke kūkulu ʻana i nā paʻakikī hou no nā poʻe haʻahaʻa haʻahaʻa a me waena, wahi a ka poʻe loea, e hāʻawi ana i ka hemahema.
I kēia manawa, ʻo ka hale hakahaka kahi i hana ʻia ai ka hale ʻaina i lilo i hoʻokahi wale nō o nā hale kūʻai kaʻawale ma ʻaneʻi ma Village, kahi hanana paradoxical e pili ana i kā mākou gentrification mau i kapa ʻia ʻo "high-rent blight." ʻOiai hiki i kēia maʻi ahulau ke hoʻopau i ke ʻano a me ke kūpaʻa o kahi kaiāulu, hiki i nā mea nona ke hoʻopaʻa no nā mahina a me nā makahiki me ka manaʻolana e kūʻai ʻia ka wahi no ke kūkulu ʻana i nā hale ʻoi aku ka maikaʻi a i ʻole he panakō, ke kaulahao aupuni a i ʻole ka luna o ka luna. -line, hale kūʻai kūʻai nui e hōʻike ʻia e uku i ke kālā kiʻekiʻe, e like me ka nui o nā mea ʻē aʻe.
ʻO nā mea e hana nei ma ʻaneʻi ke hana nei ma nā kikowaena kūlanakauhale ʻē aʻe. E like me Ua ʻike ʻo Tim Wu i kahi pukana Mei o ʻO ka New Yorker:
"ʻO ka hopena o nā ʻoihana liʻiliʻi ma West Village he pilikia kūloko, akā he mea nui ia. ʻO ka mea hoʻokahi, ke mau nei nā kūlanakauhale i nā mea hoʻokele waiwai nui, a ke hoʻomau nei nā ʻoihana liʻiliʻi i kahi hapa nui o GNP ma mua o ko lākou mau hoahānau nui. Akā aia kekahi pilikia hohonu. Mai ka makahiki ʻumikūmāiwa-XNUMX, i ka wā i kū ai ka poʻe ʻAmelika i kahi nalu nui o ka pōʻino o ke kūlanakauhale, ua hoʻomaopopo lākou i ka piʻi ʻana o nā waiwai waiwai ma ke ʻano he mea hilinaʻi o ka hoʻihoʻi ʻana. Akā hiki i nā mea āpau ke hele lōʻihi loa, a i kekahi manawa e hoʻomaka paha nā waiwai waiwai kiʻekiʻe e luku i ka hana waiwai kūloko.
Aia kekahi manawa, ua kuhikuhi ʻo Wu, i ka wā i manaʻo ai ka mea hoʻohewa kūlanakauhale nui a me ka mea kākau ʻo Jane Jacobs - ka mea i noho i kahi mau poloka mai oʻu aku - ua manaʻo ʻo Greenwich Village ke kumu hoʻohālike o kahi kaiāulu kūpono, no ka mea, ma kahi ʻāpana, kūloko. Ua hana ka poʻe kālepa i ka ʻoihana me ka nānā ʻana i kekahi i kekahi a me kā lākou mau hoaaloha a me nā mea kūʻai aku e noho kokoke ana. He aha hou aʻe, loaʻa iā ia ka eclecticism a me ka ʻokoʻa, a ʻoiai ʻo ia i kākau ai ma mua o 50 mau makahiki i hala ma kāna puke maʻamau, Ka Make a me ke Ola o na Kulanakauhale Nui o Amerika, "ʻO ka helu o nā kūlanakauhale he lehulehu o nā koho."
Ua hopohopo ʻo Jacobs e pili ana i ka wā e hiki mai ana i nalowale ka manaʻo o ke kaiāulu a ua hoʻokaʻawale ka poʻe elite iā lākou iho mai nā poʻe ʻē aʻe i loko o kā lākou mau hale leʻaleʻa nani o nā keʻena kuʻi a me nā papahele herringbone ʻeleʻele. "Ke manaʻo nui nei mākou i nā hale hou," wahi āna, "a he liʻiliʻi loa iā mākou iho."
E nānā ʻo ia i nā mea e hana nei i kēia lā a me ka manaʻolana mua, a laila e hakakā me he poʻe lā, no ka mea, e like me kā Jacobs i ʻike ai, "He hiki i nā kūlanakauhale ke hāʻawi i mea no kēlā me kēia kanaka, no ka mea, a i ka wā wale nō, ua hana ʻia lākou e nā mea a pau."
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