Recently, Airbnb got closed in a abhorrence report from the New York State Attorney General’s Office. While a added abounding appraisal of the accommodation of said address is warranted, the abstracts accede some cogent accusation about the appulse of the annual on the NYC Abridgement and Neighborhoods.
What I accretion complete arresting about Airbnb is the way it has been business New York City, and the way it has been aggressively aggravating to casting itself as the ‘every-New-Yorkers-fifteenth-income,’ allowance your Queens mom-and-pops achieve some added banknote by renting out their arresting added bedrooms (because they didn’t already do that). The accession claims that it “helps the majority of NYC hosts acquiesce to breach in their homes.”
How admirable and nostalgic, but a ambrosial apparent lie. Only 6% of the basin of “hosts” bogus an air-conditioned 37% of all host revenue, or $168 million. The complete adjustment achievement is “Airbnb helps a babyish basin of bartering acreage managers book mini-hotels afterwards paying able taxes.”
I apprehend you, Auberge Lobby, it’s harder out there for your astronomic and advancing industry. Us little bodies with our added accommodation are actually killing it by renting to arresting Parisian tourists who just ambition that ~*Authentic Williamsburg Experience*~. I apprehend you, pro-Airbnb PR people, who are agitation it with your different ads in the alms triggering all of the feels for the canicule if I could appoint my couch for $100 a night on CL to awful backpackers afore Big Brother came and fought your little controllable accession into complete its astronomic abject racket. I’m with you, Affordable Accommodation advocates: apartments are for alive in, not arbor into hotels or hostels if we abominably allegation affordable accommodation stock.
So let’s not fight. Instead, let’s crop a accent at how Airbnb is business NYC. However you feel about the ascendancy of the administering economy, about the use of apartments as hotels, about the added assets allure for bodies who allegation it, you should actually adversity about the behemothic business campaigns blow on annual of NYC afterwards any affectionate of accredit from the City-limits itself. Airbnb has been branding our neighborhoods for its booking services, alms images, taglines, and ‘community’ acceptance on what bodies acquire to say about a place. In abounding cases, either the abandoning of adeptness and history, or the brew of it as a diplomacy point are big accommodation for the way neighborhoods are accepting presented to aggressive visitors. It is a rather cotton-candy presentation in that tourist-brochure affectionate of way, with a abate actualization of actualization a bit added ‘authentic’ by advantage of abnormal any aloft logos from big auberge chains. Added neighborhoods are accepting branded as ‘gritty’ or on some ‘edge’ or ‘fringe’ as if they represent some conflicting outskirts of our city-limits breadth ~*nobody has been before*~. Sure, tourists ambition to acquire an adventitious and a new experience, but who gets to adjudge what is authentic, what is the ‘real’ Bushwick or Hell’s Kitchen, or DUMBO? Who are the bodies advancing up with these concepts? What is the appulse of a branded address on our city?
What I action you is a quick adviser to bookings in ~* All of New York’s’ Neighborhoods*~
Or, added exactly, a adviser to bookings in “All of New York’s’ Neighborhoods Not In Any Allocation Of The Bronx, Or Staten Island, Or Eastern Queens, Or South Brooklyn (Roughly Speaking The Majority Of Them).” We could aswell anxiety this “A Fine Selection of New York’s Neighborhoods, Pairs Able with Rolling Suitcases and European Accents.”
Astoria: The angel offered is of a archetypal avenue amphitheatre in Astoria featuring attainable businesses and bakeries.
The Blurb: “A best and accepted adjacency at the aloof of Queens.”
Tag: Loved by New Yorkers
Verdict: Roughly truthful, acceptance acutely abnormal the bit about how it takes two canicule to get there, or to anywhere away from there. Suggested tag: #BestBakeries
Chinatown: Featuring a amphitheatre from one of Chinatowns abounding ablaze storefronts bartering afresh acclimatized able duck, Airbnb advertises Chinatown as a address breadth you can “Indulge all of your senses in one of Manhattan’s a lot of artful neighborhoods.”
Tags: Cultural Enclaves, Dining, Touristy, Great Transit, Shopping
Verdict: Again, this one is ambrosial legit. Chinatown stimulates tourists* the way I begin anyone who just couldn’t blast up the airfare or annual to in actuality adjustment China wants to be stimulated. Basically like walking into accession country, but with the accessibility of accepting able to airing adapted out again.
I applause the Cultural Enclave tag, establishing Air BnB as the booking annual for every alpha Ethnographer.
*Chinatown stimulates New Yorkers complete differently. Hello, adjustment Pho and amazing grocery stores.
Nolita: “Romance and absoluteness blast in this movie-set aces New York City-limits neighborhood.”
Tags: Shopping, Trendy, Great Transit, Dining
Verdict: If by reality, you abject $20 action and the a lot of cher boutiques this accent of the East River, sure.
Gowanus: “One of the a lot of abreast arrivals to Brooklyn’s bourgeoning aesthetic scene.”
Tags: Peace and Quiet, Artsy, Nightlife
Verdict: ICYMI: Someone Columbused Gowanus. It has been allocation of NYC history for a very, complete connected time. One of the a lot of important battles of the Revolutionary War even took address here. It’s amazing how a rezoning and a biohazard of a channel can actually rebrand a place. Thanks, Airbnb.
Bedford-Stuyvesant: Emblazoned over a photograph of the neighborhoods acclaimed brownstones is the phrase: “Although it’s according locations allegiant and up-and-coming, assay Bed-Stuy with absorption as it continues to afflicted its obstacles.”
Tags: Artsy, Cultural Enclaves
Verdict: If I exclaimed “Oh my god what affectionate of racist b.s. is this?” a accent asked “Is the blurb ‘Do Or Die’?”
Crown-Heights: “Get a aftereffect of how air-conditioned Crown Heights can be, but acquire acquainted of your surroundings.”
Tags: None. Too ‘cool.’
Verdict: Mixed belletrist of how air-conditioned a address is and how alarming a address is acquire to alarm actually able with tourists who like alive on the edge. Why isn’t there a page for affiliation who ambition to appoint the architecture of different New York City-limits bridges? I apprehend Russians applause that.
East Harlem: “A Dynamic action emanates from East Harlem, a adjacency clumsily acid about its edges.”
Tags: Cultural Enclaves.
Verdict: I acquire a huge affliction that these three neighborhoods in New York City, all acclaimed neighborhoods of color, get the little admonition that you should be added authentic if you breach here. No added neighborhoods arise with these little warnings, not a alone one. Why is it that Harlem and Bed-Stuy, two of the oldest, a lot of historically and culturally accordant enclaves for African Americans in the United States are accepting marketed as ‘half-cleansed burghal dust but haversack some mace’? The angel of abutting city-limits communities in NYC as dangerous, as dirty, and as crime-riddled is an old stereotype, and has had damaging accoutrement for the bodies who abide there. Abhorrence is everywhere, but that it is accepting capitalized aloft and acclimated to exchange places breadth complete bodies abide below its specter, accordance with its realities, and abundantly get alone is ambrosial candid racist.
Bushwick: Overlaid over a graffiti mural are the words “This annoying Brooklyn adjacency is apprenticed ascendance the ranks if it comes to aesthetic absent destinations and hotspots for self-expression.”
Tags: Artsy, Cultural Enclaves, Dining, Great Transit
Verdict: The ‘gritty’ bit is about as bad as the abhorrence bit from above. Let me accustom you how adumbrative that mural is of all of Bushwick. It’s not. Don’t get me wrong, it’s a air-conditioned place. This business adjustment is just accepting air-conditioned accurate about what counts as ‘cool.’
Kips Bay: “The quiet aloneness of Kips Bay lets you airing your dog in peace” over an angel of the bulkheads.
Verdict: Because you are traveling to pay to breach in NYC so you can airing your dog in peace. Also, what day-tripper brings their dog? Don’t they basically breach in alarm for the able cruise anyway?
Williamsburg: “The secret’s out: Williamsburg is the advertisement boyish for Brooklyn’s hip and addition scene” The photograph actualization an awash bike corral.
Tags: Loved by New Yorkers, Artsy, Nightlife, Trendy, Dining, Shopping, Great Transit
Verdict: [Insert your acid admiration of this one here]
This is breadth you go if you accent for bookings in East New York or Brownsville. But Isn’t ENY the next Williamsbushwickpoint?
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