My NYC Black Folk......Gentrification

[Nemesis]

 

[Mikael Blowpiff]

I never got the need for bike lanes in NY. Save for some parts of Queens, there are a lot of really narrow streets that should be okay to ride bikes on.

 

[Responsible Allen Iverson]

See thats the shyt that fukks me up. And gets people angry.

But most "gentrifiers" are not like that. Who would move to a neighborhood where they arent wanted, are around crime and quality of life issues and far away from friends + work, if they had a choice to move somewhere w/o all those problems?

That's why they wait for the first wave to move in and open coffee shops, organic food stores, yoga studios, and dog grooming places, and when they feel it is safe the next wave comes in.

 

[Lakers Offseason]

I'm a Black/African-Canadian but here's my take:

Consolidate your power by moving to majority Black cities like Atlanta, Detroit, Baltimore, Memphis, Birmingham, etc. where our people can control the economics and politics of those metro areas

Breh, those cities are already majority black and we actin crazy and robbin each other. If you've worked hard and now earn enough to move your family to a neighborhood where you're less likely to get robbed or see a criminal act, why wouldn't you

Brehs here in MD that get out of bad areas through hard legal work move out to Howard and Montogomery county and the nice areas of PG county. Ain't no one trying to move to a place where they'll get robbed and shyt by niqqas too lazy to do real work.

SMH at the mentality that black = hood

 

[Tupac in a Business Suit]

Am I the only one that despises the fact that whenever I go out in NYC, I am the ONLY native from here. And when I say from I mean born and raised.

I guess now I know how the Indians felt.

 

[YBE]

A nikka felt at home in Harlem when i first went to NYC....if I could ever afford to live there comfortably, I'd get a decked out Loft somewhere Uptown.

Sylvia's

 

[TLR Is Mental Poison]

Am I the only one that despises the fact that whenever I go out in NYC, I am the ONLY native from here. And when I say from I mean born and raised.

I guess now I know how the Indians felt.

 

[little4209]

I was watching this documentary on SHO or HBO about a specific section in Brooklyn that was going through "the changes"...it had once been this great area where alot of black talent roamed and lived, but i assume, became a bit rough...Rosie Perez lives in the neighborhood and spoke on it, but i can't seem to remember what it was called...

..edit: Oh, it was called Brooklyn Boheme i want to say by Spike but idk

 

[Mikael Blowpiff]

I was watching this documentary on SHO or HBO about a specific section in Brooklyn that was going through "the changes"...it had once been this great area where alot of black talent roamed and lived, but i assume, became a bit rough...Rosie Perez lives in the neighborhood and spoke on it, but i can't seem to remember what it was called...

..edit: Oh, it was called Brooklyn Boheme i want to say by Spike but idk

It was about Fort Greene and I think it was done by Nelson George.

 

[Francis White]

and thats why brothers need to learn how to ORGANIZE

organize what exactly ? I think the only thing needed to be done is just keep you neighborhood clean and safe, that is all that is needed, people make the area, imagine if the people in the south bronx said lets stop selling drugs here, lets clean the area up and make it safe for our own kind and similar areas did the same, that would be change. Organizing a mentality change is what is needed. If your area is run down, organize them to clean it up and stop crime then you would not have to fight a losing battle because if the area is run down, then someone is going buy the land and develop it and move in whoever they want.

 

[Carolina Slim]

Corner of Irving & Greene.

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Grew up in Bushwick projects off Flushing Ave, but when wifey and I got married we lived on Menahan close to the corner of Irving. Got into a beef with the landlord, whole building started withholding rent, then we moved down to Starr and St. Nicholas.

Ain't nothing like Knickerbocker Ave. in the springtime when the clothes start coming off. My man is a cop and was dying to get transferred to the 83rd Pct., just to holla at the females while on duty.

 

[Pedro Negro]

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Grew up in Bushwick projects off Flushing Ave, but when wifey and I got married we lived on Menahan close to the corner of Irving. Got into a beef with the landlord, whole building started withholding rent, then we moved down to Starr and St. Nicholas.

Ain't nothing like Knickerbocker Ave. in the springtime when the clothes start coming off. My man is a cop and was dying to get transferred to the 83rd Pct., just to holla at the females while on duty.

I used to live on Starr & Irving too. After that I went up into Ridgewood and then slowly kept going higher up into Queens.

Still cop my trees over by Putnam and it's weird to see the one or two cafes and bike lanes. I'm used to that shyt in Williamsburg/Greenpoint but it's surreal to see some new bougie shyt pop up every time I swing through to cop some smoke.

Knickerbocker is still the same though, breh.

Mad Dominican & Rican jumpoffs. 19 year old chicks with 6 kids, as per usual.

My dude used to say all the time that each & every chick uner the age of 21 walkin' Knickerbocker was either pregnant or had kids and after careful analysis I found it to be in fact true.

How you say hood booger in Spanish?

 

[Francis White]

I hate how hipsters try and paint themselves are NY'ers. You're not a fukking NY'er, you're the furthest thing from a NY'er. You have the personality of a 2x4 and every time another one moves into the city it further kills the culture and character of NYC. They act like they're creative and different but they are no different than the rest of the people out in the suburbs that have no personality. They cry about getting away from what suburb they come from but when they get here they do everything they can to turn the city into whatever boring bland suburb they came from.

Most people who live here are from some place else and what character are they taking away ? The issue i have with them is that think they unique, they aren't just pretentious . They will continue to move wherever they want unless we keep our areas safe and clean . Hate the guy who shoots up a street hitting a 3 year old like what happened in the bronx. or the dudes who shot those people with an ak.

 

[the next guy]

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/07/22/r...ady-to-follow-in-williamsburgs-footsteps.html

On a scorching July afternoon, the frisson of hustle and bustle that delineates the weekday rush hour was in full swing at the intersection of Greenpoint and Manhattan Avenues, the dowdy commercial heart of Greenpoint. Horns blared, and unlike other times of day or night, when the traffic ranges from intermittent to invisible, pedestrians actually did have to look both ways before jaywalking. In this, the genuine Brooklyn, crosswalks are for sissies, classic apartments are walk-ups, loud is the default sound level, and burly men of a certain vintage still wear sleeveless undershirts in public.

Until Greenpoint’s artsy sister neighborhood to the south, Williamsburg, set a brash example by surrendering to glassy condominium and hotel towers and urbane renewal that yanked the cost of shelter in a Manhattan-ish direction, vinyl-sided six-family tenements were the backbone of the housing stock here. And century-old trees shaded the crumbling sidewalks. But lately the biggest shadow being cast in Greenpoint belongs to Williamsburg.

 

[emoney]

im gonna be honest i have no problem with certain groups of people but harlem is my birthplace and it has so much history and to see it change like this, i hate to see it everytime

yea Harlem actually has an international reputation, the rest of the places if they are run down let it go....Harlem is worth saving and keeping Black tho