Summer sweater

Summer sweater, originally uploaded by Cohabitating_Closet.

I'm off to Manhattan to get my teeth cleaned, get library books, edit a manuscript (to be sent off my desk like yesterday?) and be uber productive. And avoid heat stroke, as it will be 90 today and likely hotter in midtown. I thrifted this summer weight sweater knit top a while ago, and I decided that it might work in today's weather.

Thank you for your kind words about the dress. I will try styling it a bit tonight when I have a chance some free moments. I flaked out on a few things last night because I've been having housing anxieties. Our landlord is selling her brownstone, and groups of 10-12 people traipse in here every few days, looking our apartment. A few thoughts on this:

1) Someone once accused me of being a hipster gentrifier for moving into a "transitional" neighborhood. I replied that I was merely on object, not a subject or agent of any gentrification process, since I had the choice of very small places in "gentrified" neighborhood, or a more moderately sized apartment in a transitional one, (and for a work from home type, this is a no-brainer). We had a heated discussion at the Tip Top Bar (a dive bar turned white kid joint in Bed-Stuy), which was probably ironic, but I continue to hold my stance. Likely, Blokey and I will get chased out of our building by someone "making investment," falsely advertised that he can make 90K a year in rentals (our landlord does not make this much for 4 units), and end up possibly displacing many of the families on our block. Or this ambitious property owner will find, to his disappointment, and he can only charge what we are currently paying, but it will be too late for us. We'll already be kicked out/have left in a huff of anger.
2) I hate this sense of insecurity, and while I am loathe to join the mortgaged classes, I spent too much time doing so last night.
3) Condos have gone down the NYC boros and surrounding areas. But many are still "douchebag living" steel and glass monstrosities, environmentally unsound, and eyesores (and the result of really crap politics).

Ah, the marginal urban living dilemma. Blokey and I can continue to get outpriced (or out ambitioned) out of various neighborhoods for a while, since we need extra space, but to what end? Will we be forced to become rental pioneers in increasingly further out and marginal neighborhoods?

Thoughts about the urban non-rich living dilemma?

Hope you have a great Monday.

Top: Jcrew, thrifted
Skirt: originally dress, thrifted and turned into a skirt DIY
Belt: Not Just Vintage (Brooklyn)
Shoes: BC Footwear