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Wake up and smell the $7 latte, Spike.
Newcomers to Spike Lee 's old Brooklyn stomping grounds say the "Do the Right Thing" director missed the mark when he railed against white gentrifiers and their frilly pets.
"I don't see a negative to cleaning up a neighborhood," said Marina Rutherfurd, 25, who was walking her English springer spaniel Hudson in Fort Greene Park on Wednesday not far from where Lee shot scenes for "Crooklyn," his 1994 semibiographical film about life growing up in Brooklyn during the 1970s.
"I think it's a creative bunch of people doing interesting things," added Rutherfurd, who moved to Fort Greene just a month ago from the Hamptons, where she recently opened a restaurant called Station. "It's all good intentions."
The filmmaker blasted Brooklyn gentrifiers Tuesday during an incendiary Black History Month speech at Pratt Institute, even going so far as to equate a rise in pricey pets at the park with the country's premier dog show.
"Have you seen Fort Greene Park in the morning?" Lee railed during a profane rant against gentrification that stretched seven minutes. "It's like the m-----f---ing Westminster dog show!"
Apparently unsatisfied with Tuesday's rant, Lee doubled down Wednesday with an Instagram image from an old Tarzan movie, with a caption that read "Early Gentrification."
Meanwhile, dozens of fancy pooches roamed Fort Greene Park with their fashionable owners in tow.
The area surrounding the park was largely Italian in 1968 when Lee's parents bought a brownstone for $40,000, the filmmaker has said. While that may have been a princely sum back then, the filmmaker's posh 8,292-square-foot pad on the Upper East Side hit the market in November for a whopping $32 million.
Megan Feeney, who lives in a co-op that she bought two years ago in Fort Greene, said the filmmaker was doing what he does best - provoke. Still, she doesn't agree with Lee when it comes to views on gentrification. "He has the right to live wherever he wants to live, and people have the right to live wherever they want to live," said Feeney, 34, while walking Ernie, her miniature poodle.
For 32-year-old jewelry designer Donna Yu, who supplements her art with a dog-walking business, the drawbacks of gentrification - rising property values, disenfranchisement - hardly outweigh the perks.
"I benefit from it," said Yu, a Toronto transplant who claims that since beginning her dog-walking service in 2009, the number of competing services in and around Fort Greene has tripled. "I can have a decent cup of coffee."
At least one person was happy with the outspoken director. Westminster Kennel Club spokesman David Frei said the 137-year-old group appreciated his shoutout Tuesday night.
"We're glad that when Spike Lee sees dogs, he thinks of the Westminster Kennel Club," said Frei. "God bless him."
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Amzing Moment: Brooklyn residents don't appreciate Spike Lee's rants on gentrification