Socializing on the & # 39; high ground & # 39; in the urban landscape has become increasingly popular in the 21st century that growing has been spurred by the construction of rooftop platforms on new buildings and retro-fitted rooftop platform for social affairs on older buildings Being on the roof, more than a psychological rather than physical connotation because a rooftop event does not have the highest platform in the area, except that you & # 39; re on the top of a specific building The important psychological element is that you you & # 39; re on top of whatever structure you you & # 39; re on - your personal top of the world feeling.
Some buildings have even sheled out real substantial sums to install a moveable canopy to accommodate year-round activity - and continued charging premium prices especially in boutique and swanky hotel establishments.
While overall there is probably more rooftops for parties, this is another class of rooftop party which numbers are dwindling and are sadly becoming a rare urban occurrence - proverbially a "last call." The disappearing rooftop venues to which I refer which are disappearing the most fun are located in the industrial sections of not-yet-wholly-gentrified sections in the architectural sense working class NYC neighborhoods such as Bushwick, Long Island City, and Alphabet City in the East Village.
The rooftop itself is more Ralph Kramden than Ralph Lauren, a working class industrial feel, not a contrived throwback, to a urban Americana when locals escaped the stifling heat of their apartments to schmooze with their neighbors for nocturnal gatherings. Today it & # 39; sa special treat yet psychologically they still conjure up memories past.
Nowadays the demographics consist of genuine struggling, starving artists and other under-employed, deep in college debt Millennials who are making the best of a technical economic depression. It 's slice of the urban Americana because of the economy keeps people more rooted to their urban environment instead of spending a fortune for the weekend in the Hamptons.
For this reason in the "backwater" urban section working class beer is hauled from a bucket or cooler of ice, with chips, pretzels and sometimes a grill to make homemade burgers and hotdogs. And smokers. The aesthetics are direct and simple, raw industrial You can feel the soft summer zephyrs as the sunset welcomes twilight and the scintillating lights from the surrounding buildings, bridges, and streets wink and blink and greet the early evening. And you can hear the And the more industrial the setting the more the setting the more it takes on a visually edgy cyberpunk atmosphere.
It is cheerful experience that 's short-lived so people embrace these moments more tightly and indelibly mark it in their memories. Not only is it growing more difficult to find such venues but municipalities & # 39 ; are enforced quality of life laws forming holding such events on the down low challenging. It 's one of the last last few remaining summer bastions of urban freedom somewhere soon to be the 21st century speakeasy.
