D’oh! You just closed a deal on a phat pad in the Wevy, or “Central Village”, or wherever it is, but it turns out you’re behind on the times, my friend. There are more and more signs that downtown is becoming tres passe, and the hip ones are all moving to greener pastures. Where, you ask? Why, none other that Midtown.

The Observer reports on one instance of this trend. Says Michael Gross, (who after 17 years, sold his West Village pad to hip hop DJ Mark Ronson) about his new digs on West 58th St: “[It's] [p]recisely the kind of neighborhood that the Village used to be … Creative people, no entitlement, no rage, no stroller Nazis. It’s a neighborhood of people who create and give, instead of the people who just suck the life out of the world.” (emphasis added)

The Village, meanwhile, may have the appearance of counterculture, but let’s be real. Ronson Gross: “[T]here are still hipsters, punks and freaks on the streets, but they go to NYU and their parents pay $45,000-plus a year for the privilege.”

Suuuuuuuuuuuck.

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