Lip, Tommy and others in “Unfinished Business”

Lip

It was a long shower.

Tommy

Oh, you pussied up.

Lip

Yeah, well, might have been some phone sex with Miami.

Frank

What are you guys building on top of the old nursing home?

Tommy

I don't build. I'm just demo.

Frank

I'll tell you what it is. I'll tell you all what it is. It's a Starbucks. Or some sort of artisanal juicery. Or a whole fucking foods.

Tommy

Just drop it, Frank, all right?

Frank

I'm talking about gentrification, my friends.

Tommy

Genital what?

Frank

I'm talking about the beginning of the end. I have seen this before on Fulton Street in '64. On Kirby Street in '68. Realtors started buying up property at better than market value, and within a few months, the whole neighborhood was over run with the gentry, and we were forced out. Today, the urban gentry is monied lesbians. They knock on your door. They offer you twice what your home is worth, and they do it 'cause they know something you don't.

Tommy

He like this at home?

Lip

You think I'd let him live in my home?

Frank

Laugh, laugh. You won't be laughing in a year. When you won't be able to afford to live here. They move in, they take over. They kick the homeless out of the park as if they don't have a God given right to sleep there. We are dinosaurs, my friend. And a big, fat comet is headed for our sweet slice of earth. And that comet is a Starbucks.