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Many of these low-rent tenants--including Cambridge Mayor Kenneth E. Reeves '72, WGBH-TV General Manager David Ives and Supreme Judicial Court Justice Ruth Abrahams--could easily afford market rents. Their apartments, in turn, would command such rents on a free market...
...emerges, grinning like a fool, on the other side. A bunch of white yuppies, as Coyle tells it, decide to help out with a Little League that's getting started in darkest Cabrini-Green. Cabrini is a 70-acre failed social experiment known, in understated terms, as the worst low-rent development in the U.S. From its high-rises rifle fire sweeps down, both random and specific, as rival gangs contest territory and drug- marketing turf. In Cabrini, as Coyle relates, "gunfire is discussed like weather. Better go shopping early, because they're gonna shoot tonight. They sure were shooting...
...Gucci, Hermes . . ." all the way down to ". . . Valentino, Vuitton and Zabar." Instead of superhero lunch boxes, these kids will tote personalized shopping bags. And what about children cursed with parents whose taste in store names is simply too plebeian? On Geraldo, talk-show shrinks will discuss the trauma of low-rent names like Kmart Smith and Shoe-Town Jones...
Sometime a few years ago, movie stars and urbane, goat-cheese-and-endive types discovered bowling alleys, pool halls, tattoos, Harley Davidsons, diners and restaurants that looked like diners but served goat cheese and endive. All of a sudden the pastimes, artifacts and style of low-rent America, in all their glorious white-trashiness, had become chic. The fashion continues to flourish...
...HARLEY-DAVIDSON CAFE, NEW YORK CITY: Last week's opening of this restaurant attracted Alec Baldwin, designers Nicole Miller and Norma Kamali, and the intrinsically low-rent Donald Trump...