Powerhouse in those days, something i had no idea of when i moved there. There was a multitude of coffee and textile factories, sugar refineries and brewers and innovative entrepreneurs brooklyn invented the teddy bear, benjamin and more and dominos sugar to cite just a few. In 1849, you will like this one, one of the emigrants opened what would become one of the Largest Pharmaceutical Companies in the world. You probably know and revere the company for inventing such products as zoloft, lipitor and us not forget, viagra. They employed millions of immigrants in the neighborhoods and groups that accommodate them. And the fortune shifted in the second half of the 20th century. The factories that had sustained so Many Americans started to believe not for china and mexico but far less crowded suburbs. When walter broke the harvar had taking the team as they were referred to in los angeles in retrospect seemed to tell the fate that was becoming a sad shell of its former self in 1966 in the navy yard which had during world war ii in the largest and best known commissioned. By the time i moved about a mile away from the navy yard it was home to a few warehouses but akers on the body that have been reported by one of the legendary wiseguys. There were still plenty at the time from the earlier waves of immigrants. Our nextdoor neighbors were an elderly irish couple whod taken in borders has for so many dead in the brownstone areas of brooklyn during the depression and in the decades following. They were beating paid by new york many of them sick and moaning. Brooklyn was actually losing population and they would say about this time weve got to get out of brooklyn. A lot of people did. So, the question i have in my mind as i approached the book is how did the old brooklyn become the new brooklyn, the place that gq magazine called the coolest city on the planet hell is it they have bulletproof cages to protect the cashiers and they have picture windows and free tastings. How could we have gotten to the point in history as we did in the fall of 2015 where the departments have a most celebrated the brooklyn mania with an exhibit called. How could the only parisians be so interested in buying products either warren or eaten by a brooklynite or at least parisians idea. Why should anyone care what happened to brooklyn, the place isnt a city it is a borough. It has 600,000 people. What i try tbut i try to show is brooklyn is a microcosm for the vast economic and social changes and it should be mentioned that the politics of western europe. Its two words knowledge, information oregon thinking about stuff. 59 of the labor force was in the white collar occupations. This gave new york a competitive advantage over other industrial cities. Most of the people that were white collar or predominantly men who were working downtown just like rob petrie and the husband on the show with Mary Tyler Moore who i did want to mention today. But a few of the workers especially the more creative types of media started moving to brooklyn. They were gentrifying to use a word that only became popular decades later. Brooklyn heights, park slope perhaps you can trace those a little on the map. They were all lovely brownstone neighborhoods that have gone into disrepair. Over the next decade, the number of workers increased as did the number and variety of whitecollar jobs in new york. The government was expanding and so were the colleges and universities for the administrators and professors. By 2000, technology was opening up new occupations for the creative young including occupations that people had never heard of before. The operators at the Sugar Refinery may be gone but the new brooklyn has many thousands of designers and developers in social media. The house nextdoor that i referred to earlier is a perfect illustration of the shift from the older to the new knowledge economy. Its really gentrification in a single brownstone. I already mentioned that there was an elderly irish couple living there. Their husbands like other immigrants whove been here long enough have a Civil Service job with a postal worker while his wife was in charge of the border as i mentioned before. Fast forward 15 years a house was sold, renovated and divided into condominiums, the whole deal. First people to move in were people that you would have never met in the old brooklyn. An architect and his wife, a furniture designer and her husband also an editor at a newe new york magazine. A wall street trader moved in soon after with his wife a freelance writer and their three children, the same block, same house, old brooklyn, new brooklyn
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