New Haven Independent

Posted by: Fedupwithliberals | November 12, 2007 8:55 AM

Not to worry, Paul! These are just "markings".

Posted by: on whalley | November 12, 2007 10:47 AM

Tag! You're it!

I walk by the "Hip Hop Spot" regularly and could never imagine why somebody would open a shop like that around here. Sure, there's money to be made, theoretically anyway. But you're knowingly or not setting up a beacon to attract this sort of thing. Just look at what happened when 50 Fitch went from middle aged people and classic rock and baseball to "hip-hop" and college aged kids.

It's like opening a comic book shop and being surprised you're surrounded by a bunch of nerds. Open a "hip-hop" shop and gee, who do you get hanging around?

That being said "Jimmy's" shops can pull it off a little better/safer because the shops are open, well lit, clean, and essentially run like any other chain retailer. In short it's "yuppie safe."

As derogatory a term as "yuppie" has become and despite how posters like "Charlie" like to knock suburbs for being "boring" they don't have nearly as many incidents of this going on. Not just in suburban areas but "yuppie safe" types of businesses don't have this going on as often as the "urban" business do. Why was that shop owner killed on Chapel a few months back in a robbery and not the ladies at the uppity pasta shop? A couple of women should be an easier target and that shop probably has more money but that crook went to that "urban clothiers" shop and shot that owner.

I'm glad the owner is going to be alright but this is just going to happen again and again and again...