An article explores the recent stabbing on the New York subway, linking it to the cultural clash between noise and silence in gentrifying areas. It analyzes the perspective of author Gonzalez, who argues that the 'sound of gentrification is silence,' highlighting the preference for quiet comfort over the louder expressions of joy and life often associated with minority communities.
This side of things is painfully obvious in the New York subway system, in which back-to-back violent incidents are, these days, its feature. Some things are a given on the train: Annoyances and eccentricities, especially in New York, make public transit what it is. But likewise can riders expect some level of order, if only downstream of simple no-eating, headphone use, or escalator courtesy rules and norms.
And other things, namely the crimes that make up the news cycle of late, are flat-out unacceptable. One such scene is a stabbing on the metro in response to a noise complaint. In the most recent of New York shock crimes, suspect Abdul Malik LittleSpeaker noise is an occurrence that most metro riders have encountered at some point or another and to which, to be plain, many have more than likely taken a dislike. It is a sort of power move “backed by the threat of violence,” Manhattan Institute researcher Rafael Mangualit as equally relevant in June 2024.) In short, Gonzalez argues that “the sound of gentrification is silence.” White people place their quiet comfort over minorities’ louder joy, first at Brown University and then in Brooklyn. It is isolating and discomfiting, for Gonzalez, as well as a fundamental of race conflict. From her perspective, poor people have a general aversion to quiet, simple as that. The piece ends with a sense of hope for the preservation of noisiness, or at least the continuation of occasional outbursts of sorts, in the form of the annual National Puerto Rican Day Parade on Fifth Avenue. So, is the stabbing a mostly unrelated example or a logical extreme of Gonzalez’s cultural noise assertion? It seems the latter. One lesson, if not the lesson, of her piece laments the self-segregation of minorities into shrinking, din-friendly areas. And it absolutely loathes any imposition of the preference for quie
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