Clinton Volunteers on Hunt For Brooklyn Apartments

Welcome to the first week in the annals of New York Times trend-piece watching. This week brings us an inside look at the courageous and surprisingly squeamish group of selfless volunteers at Clinton headquarters. Turns out they're having some problems with Craigslist.

The former senator and secretary of state's staff are having considerable trouble finding digs in the "gentrified" neighborhoods of Brooklyn near campaign headquarters. But fear not, liberals! Hedge fund managers and the Chamber of Commerce have stepped up to help:

Marc Lasry, a hedge fund manager, a major Democratic donor and a friend of the Clintons, let the campaign’s communications director, Jennifer Palmieri, stay in his family’s Manhattan home, a penthouse on Central Park West, for a handful of nights early on. The city, he said, “is expensive, particularly for young people. We have five children, so we are used to having a lot of people around, and we’re happy to put up folks from the campaign.

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The campaign has worked with the Brooklyn Chamber of Commerce for guidance on where staffers could find housing. The chamber suggested Clinton Hill, Bedford-Stuyvesant, Bensonhurst and Dyker Heights, but has not made much progress in convincing staffers to consider these less gentrified neighborhoods, said Carlo A. Scissura, the president and chief executive of the chamber.

Not only will the selfless Clinton staffers not consider the "less gentrified" neighborhoods (too tired to unpack that nonsense) but to add insult to injury, one campaign staff moved up from DC with...wait for it...her corgi-terrier mix (but of course) named "Bernie":

Adrienne Elrod, 39, a campaign spokeswoman, is originally from Arkansas but moved to Brooklyn from Washington with her corgi-terrier mix, Bernie (not named after Mrs. Clinton’s primary opponent Senator Bernie Sanders). If she stretches her arms far enough in her tidy studio in “the dorm,” she can almost touch the foot of her bed and her kitchen countertop at the same time.

One notices over the course of the article the refrain that if the staffer reaches their arms out, they can touch the walls of their living quarters. Perhaps it's just all a metaphor for the tight ideological box they're in, ah-hem?

This person needs your help finding a place to live

This has been your weekly New York Times hate read. Thank you for reading.