My NYC Black Folk......Gentrification

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2manyFCKNrappers said:
Jay is my goat but to be honest he led the way for gentrification with that barclays center. that's why i don't support the brooklyn nets because it's more than just a basketball team. it's literally a trojan horse.
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*F*U*N*E*R*A*L* said:
AS far as its concerned in my opinion, Jay being appointed as the face of Barclay's and the Nets was the final nail in the coffin of Brooklyn.
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gentrification in brooklyn was well on it's way way before the plans for the barclays center was even layed down. by that time fort green, prospect heights, park slope and williamsburg were already gentrified and surrounding neighborhoods were already feeling the effects. a matter of fact most of the gentrifying yuppies and hipsters were against the barclays center cause they thought it would lower property values and Jay was mainly used to get the support of native brooklynites.
 
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concise said:
:russ: They've finally figured out what they're doing with that area behind it? I remember thinking like 10 years ago that houses were going up there. All this time later and it still mostly looks the same.
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manwhatthefukk said:
whoa is that ENY?
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Yeah...those rentals aren't fully complete though, its gonna take another year.
 
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Do you guys see how they are trying to close down all the Brooklyn hospitals in the brownstone areas? Those hospitals employee a lot of AA's with good paying health care related jobs. I also see Quinn is down in the polls, did she actually think NYC was going to elect her?


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He is right.

im Glad u arent running for mayor.

Can u imagine a mayor having an agenda to keep an area dangerous to just keep the "culture" alive?
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If only there was a way to keep the culture alive without keeping the area dangerous. :ohhh:
 
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2manyFCKNrappers said:
I was talking to my shorty's best friend 2 years ago and even though she was shook to even speak about it, she told us something i won't forget. she used to work for bloomberg before quitting last year. she told us she sat in on a meeting where they revealed in a step by step plan over 12 years to move all of the poor minorities to the bronx. the sad thing about all of this is there is not one single candidate for mayor, comptroller or even borough president who is addressing this issue even though it is happening at an alarming rate. the thing that made new york an incredible city is being destroyed. the diversity of the outer boroughs is being compromised. there have always been the haves and the have nots but now it's becoming sneaky and strategic and they think we don't know what the fukk is up. or maybe they do but just don't care. i wonder if we're just going to let this slide or will we start to organize and speak out against this shyt. i hate the new condo buildings in crown heights in bed stuy. they look glossy as fukk and out of place. they mess up the character of the neighborhoods. they steal the soul of the streets that have so much history, good and bad.
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fukked up.

I can see this having an impact on the West side of the Bronx. The East (particularly the Northeast) Bronx may be too residential. Where I'm at in the Bx is little Jamaica. We own round these parts and don't sell either.

Its about to get real with Westchester though they are gonna ship a lot of the poor there too.
 
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AgentT said:
fukked up.

I can see this having an impact on the West side of the Bronx. The East (particularly the Northeast) Bronx may be too residential. Where I'm at in the Bx is little Jamaica. We own round these parts and don't sell either.

Its about to get real with Westchester though they are gonna ship a lot of the poor there too.
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long island is looking pretty haggard as well
 
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AgentT said:
Funny you mention gateway...they are doubling it.

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I took this pic in an office for East Brooklyn expansion (I forgot the name). I spoke to the dude working there and he told me the whole area is going to look completely differently in a few years. They are working on getting an exclusive contract with a yearly jazz festival and increasing transportation.

I think I said earlier how a Jewish lady training me for my new job asked quite a few questions about the area :lupe:
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The suburbanization/homogenization of Brooklyn
 
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AgentT said:
fukked up.

I can see this having an impact on the West side of the Bronx. The East (particularly the Northeast) Bronx may be too residential. Where I'm at in the Bx is little Jamaica. We own round these parts and don't sell either.

Its about to get real with Westchester though they are gonna ship a lot of the poor there too.
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Captain_Crunch said:
How so, isn't Sheepshead and Bay Ridge mostly white?
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that's exactly my point.
 
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Captain_Crunch said:
How so, isn't Sheepshead and Bay Ridge mostly white?
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Yeah. There are lots of Eastern European immigrants (Polish, Russian, Czech, etc) and Italians there. Some asians and black folks. I used to work out in those parts.

But the majority of them have lived in New York all of their lives and would rather die than see their neighborhood succumb to out of state transplants.
 
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