I'm sorry..it actually has a name?

So today is my first entry for this blog that I have been talking about for a while. Originally I am a Bronx girl, but I moved to Yonkers at 11, so I can say I grew up here. That being said, what is happening to Yonkers! Now granted, I live in "downtown" Yonkers. I use that term loosely because even though apartments range from $1500-$3500 in my less than one mile long neighborhood..I am a block from the YMCA. I am also less than a block from the homeless shelter. Thankfully, I was able to get a great deal on my great apartment when I moved in about 5 years ago. But now, its turning into a Chelsea. But Chelsea its not, as the ads say in Grand Central station. It's actually called SoYo. (smh)What was once a nice working class/middle class building is slowly going to small dogs and Maclaren strollers. My street, which originally only had 2 other apartment buildings has gone from no meters, to automated/debit card meters, to quarter meters for 20 minutes, to a quarter for 15 minutes of parking. I have probably spent at least$ 5,000 dollars in parking tickets, and been in at least 3 verbal altercations with the valet guys at the restaurant(that will remain nameless). I mean how dare you think you can hold spaces with orange cones on a public residential street! Progress is nice, this is something else entirely. So, I have decided to start this blog to vent, but also to cope with my love/hate relationship with my SoYo called life.