were working downtown took the fight 15 train to new rochelle, just like rod petrie, played by dick van dyke, the fictional husband of laura petrie, played by mary tyler moore, who i did want to mention today. but a few of those white-collar workers, especially in more creative types in media started moving at a largely working-class brownstone brooklyn. they were gentrifying comedies a word that only became popular many decades later. brooklyn heights, park slope, perhaps you can trace those loaded on your map, these are all lovely 19th century brownstone neighborhoods that had gone into disrepair. over the next decades, the number of white-collar workers increased as did the number and variety of white-collar jobs in new york. government was expanding and sewer colleges and universities, and along with them jobs for lawyers, administrators and professors. by the 2000s, technology was opening up new occupations for the educated and creative young, including occupations people have never heard of before. the kiln operators at the domino sugar refinery may be gone, but the new brooklyn has ma