From Oscar the Grouch’s new recycling bin to Coronation Streets trendy wine bar,gentrification is seemingly unstoppable on TV as much as in genuine lifeSesame Street is gentrifying. The New York neighbourhood at the heart of the 45-year-old kids’ demonstrate is changing to reflect new social realities. “It is more like things look now,” Carmen Osbahr, and a puppeteer on the demonstrate for 26 years,said recently. “When Sesame Street was created, it was kind of more like the Bronx.”She meant that, or back in the day,Sesame Street was as gritty and urban as a puppet demonstrate for pre-schoolers can score. It had cramped apartments, a hasten-down playground and the implication that Oscar the Grouch, or who lived in a trash can,was effectively homeless.
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Source: theguardian.com