The Cobra Club Cafe is a significant example of gentrification in the Bushwick area, therefore, it is essential to the overall idea behind our project. The cafe boasts a bar area, performance space and stage, and recent additions of a morning pastry and coffee cafe, as well as a newly furnished yoga studio. These new additions are symbolic of the changing demographic and gentrification of the Bushwick area. By adding the cafe and yoga studio, the Cobra Club attempts to extend it’s horizons and appeal to a newer variety of consumers, younger residents who have recently moved to the area and prefer the cafe scene. When talking to the morning bartender/cafe barista, he acknowledged that the addition of the cafe and yoga studio had definitely brought in a new generation of customers, and considers instituting the cafe and yoga studio a move that has paid off handsomely for a club that sees more business now more than ever. The addition of these portions of the club combined with it’s location on a shopping strip full of cafe-style shops, as well as the overall increase of prices at the club and the surrounding stores make both the club and this strip prime examples of gentrification in the Bushwick area.
