Talk:ABC No Rio
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what's the etymology of the name "ABC No Rio"? 207.29.128.130 12:43, 10 August 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Gentrification, ABC No Rio, Puerto Ricans
Hi, I edited the page, since it falsely stated that the Puerto Rican community "influxed" commensurate to the squatters and artists. Such a proposition is too convenient; it gives the false impression of "equal footing": that gentrification did not occur by making it seem that the three demographics as they were listed in the article (Puerto Ricans, squatters and artists) came together simultaneously. This is categorically untrue. The Puerto Rican community preceded both the squatters and the artists by at least 2 decades, possibly at least to the 1950's when US domestic policy "Operation Bootstraps" was implemented in Puerto Rico. In fact, both the community of squatters and the artists (the categories are indiscrete; they were even more so in the time period when ABC No Rio emerged) benefitted from the emerging gentrification, albeit undone by that selfsame vehicle later on when much of the Lower East Side "vanished" into the East Village. It also erroneously described Puerto Ricans as "immigrants." They are legal US citizens, so they cannot possibly be "immigrants." - Dennis sinneD dennis.farr@gmail.com 24.161.8.222 05:39, 27 December 2006 (UTC)
