The New York Times deigned to step down from its ivory tower this weekend and let the world know that no longer does living in downtown Boston suck; in fact, it is "Suddenly Appealing." The article focuses on the leather and financial districts and the Rose Kennedy Greenway (you know, the wondrous park that will be built over the Big Dig), and is mostly pretty boring, save for this one painfully microcosmic bit:

Mr. Weintraub and other brokers estimate that already 75 percent of the upper floors are residential, after being sweatshops or less-than-prime office space for many years. Developers are rushing to convert whatever is remaining on the upper floors of the Leather District's buildings to condos.

We hereby retract any condemnation of gentrification as a bad thing and happily step in line with the "gentrification stops sweatshops" crowd.

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