* JuanMapu - Vida en Nueva York

One more original neighbor is moving out and I can't help to think is one more sign of gentrification. It is sad, just hoping it was her decision. She is the mother of two.

And I don't want to think who are going to be the new ones.

Although around here we don't get hipsters like in Brooklyn, most of these new ones want the neighborhood to change. They're all up for signs of security, cool cafés, pan Asian restaurants and yoga classes (nothing against.) They want to have the New Brooklyn uptown, but what about just making life better either in Brooklyn or here in the Heights.

What bothers me is the minimal sense of community these ones have. They do want to transform the neighborhood in order to make it better and profitable for them without being part of it, which makes me thing yoga is not a good thing for our neighborhood. They don't have the Gandhi approach, like Superstar and JW, of start living like them to feel like them and set a life after that. (Well, they don't go all the way like Gandhi, but they do try the food and the clothes and the music and want to try some sexy love too.)

JW is right. The thing is about being part of the neighborhood. I believe the key thing in activism is to find a way to love what is around, show some respect, then think on how to move on and work towards enhancement. Before yoga and delicious Thai food I want to see affordable housing, apartments free of lead painting plus safe and clean parks and people educating supermarket and bodega managers about plastic bags.

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The new bakery is not as cool as the one before and has no baguettes, but fuck it: it stills a local entrepreneurship situation.

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I am proud of one of the pastelitos guy saying to me "long time no see you." That means my diet is in the right path and that I'm his pal.