Retail accumulation defined a countercultural neighborhood’s tipping point.

Evidence

The boutiques and the Bridge Theatre have been there for a while, too. Café Society came, saw, conquered and left the Dom months ago. But the accumulation adds up. The bookstore, the record shop, the oriental gift shop with tiger balm and various forms of betel nuts, the antique stores, the funny buttons shop, and—most significant harbinger of all—the open front pizza stand. — J. Hoberman, Everything Is Now, 882

Categorization

• ADDENDUM: Direct support for the gentrification-origin test case: the enumerated build-out of boutiques, gift shops, and a pizza stand is the material condition preceding displacement.