The BoBo Reconsidered

[New York Bohemia] is threatened not by penury but by gentrification.

- James Traub, The New York Times Magazine

"Threatened" implies an action, a movement. There in an enemy closing in, and our quaint bohemians must move to avoid it. Whereas a hundred years ago in Paris the poor artists served as doorways to the abject poor, today in New York artists serve as doorways for the nouveau riche, and then must move to new, low-cost areas. By turning the argument on its head, we can say that

New York Ghettos are threatened not by more penury, but by Bohemia.

And many of you will agree that this is a very good thing.