Yuppies Invade My House at Dinnertime: A Tale of Brunch Bombs and Gentrification in an American City

About this book

Yuppies Invade my House at Dinnertime is a collection of letters printed in The Hoboken Reporter newspaper over the past four years. Here in their own words is what happens to the people in a city undergoing several years of intense gentrification. It is a story of Reeboks real estate Radical Chic yahoos yorkies yokels urinal cleaners feast bombers brunch eaters "weird people with sneakers and dresses " condos cafes lack of parking "the wackiest mayor in America " and joyriding yuppie slobs versus "good clean decent yuppies." But most of all it is a moving account of a community in transition of new and old of discovery and displacement. Through their letters recent and longtime inhabitants of Hoboken portray both sides of urban revival in the United States where once-dying cities face a "renaissance" that obliterates as much a it renews.