My NYC Black Folk......Gentrification

[Gallo]

Yes

I remember now. Yeah that coffeee spot is actually really nice. The owner and I have spoken every time i've been there. I feel sorry for the Cuban coffee spot across the street though. It's been there for years and the new coffee spot is likely taking away business.

 

[the next guy]

Went to school on a full ride the past five years in NYC. I feel bad because I was a passive observer but clearly saw the trending of white folks and rich minorities to places like Bed Stuy, Chinatown (yes the Whites are penetrating that area somewhat), East Harlem and now Crown Heights

This thread really put SO MUCH in perspective. All the projects in the LES that I use to see are all co-opts now. Living in Harlem and taking that 6 train home from work

If you have job experience, skills, and or an education, you should come down South. I'm from Atlanta and I'm kind of at a crossroads where to call home, but in the few months being back here, I've had TONS of job offers. It's cheap and as long as you live close to the city, you can have enough things to do to kind of fill the void of not having the immediacy of NYC. If you like Black women and snow bunnies then ain't a place better.

Why live in a city where you are a renter when you could own a house, have cake left over and start a small business? Black folks up North and out West messed up back in the day but yall gotta get it right this time around. The next time they try to come into our neighborhoods, we need to have them on lockdown.

In 1985 did you think white people would ever return to major cities? Black folks were caught by surprise. It happens.

 

[Malik]

No breh. Don't get it twisted trust fund babies life off their parents. How do you think they can intern with a small salary for a year but live well. Bank of mum and dad.

If you meet a hipster who earns a minuscule amount but eating good, rent paid, mortgage deposit, taxi's everywhere that's their parents. Don't let your hipster friends BS you they ain't paying for shyt.

Yep

 

[Malik]

I find that funny cause every born & raised Ny'er I know looks at them the same way. Deep down inside...they know. That's why (in North Brooklyn) they stay in their little enclaves of coffee shops, gentrification cafes, kidult bars, and other tripe. Cause they know they'll never be accepted as true blooded New Yorkers.

I can't stand these hipsters and their view of NY like it's some extension of their pissant liberal arts college.

Straight up moving to the city and then crying when they actually get the grittiness of the city. Just because they saw Friends, How I met Your mother, or some shytty movie they decided to move here.

But...since they couldn't afford to live in Manhattan, invade neighborhoods in the outer boroughs inhabited by generations of New Yorkers of ALL backgrounds.

They just have this colonist/colonial view of New York. They don't care to assimilate and make friends with their neighbors. They don't want to mingle with the people that made the borough. They don't change to reflect the neighborhood...they want the neighborhood to change to reflect them.

I got mad just reading this post.

 

[No Homo]

This dude is today.

This dude is today.

Funny tho I was with my boy from bx(grand concourse) this weekend and he told me they are slowly coming by him

 

[stepbackj34spud]

So many white people live in the surrounding blocks in my area wtf. I'm like are they making these apartment specifically for whites people?? There's a block in my hood that has nothing but white people on it.... This block is sandwiched in between one major project housing and another smaller brooklyn project housing.

The dude who said the 6 train ride home from work is
Breh I feel the same way about rides home to Brooklyn on the G-Line. I just feel so outnumbered and cornered.

 

[AB Ziggy]

So many white people live in the surrounding blocks in my area wtf. I'm like are they making these apartment specifically for whites people?? There's a block in my hood that has nothing but white people on it.... This block is sandwiched in between one major project housing and another smaller brooklyn project housing.

The dude who said the 6 train ride home from work is
Breh I feel the same way about rides home to Brooklyn on the G-Line. I just feel so outnumbered and cornered.

Soon all of of the city(cept for Wash Heights and parts of Bx) are gonna look like U.E.S. and S.I. population wise. Nothing but Cacs.

Everybody gon be priced out to the shytty suburbs.

 

[Canada Goose]

Soon all of of the city(cept for Wash Heights and parts of Bx) are gonna look like U.E.S. and S.I. population wise. Nothing but Cacs.

Everybody gon be priced out to the shytty suburbs.

I think Far Rock is safe from gentrification.... the commute is a hour from there to midtown, these hipsters love quick commutes to the city... Not to mention those waterfront areas take longer to bounce back from hurricanes.

Coney Island might be safe too.

Also one of those Black Queens neighborhoods is like one of the wealthiest black neighborhoods in the country, whites are not taking over those neighborhoods.


Blacks in Queens [Except for QB and nearby projects], BX and SI should be fine, its Blacks in brooklyn that should be worried, unless you live in ENY or the Ville.


at you making it seem like Staten Island is Blacks have the North Shore of SI on lock

 

[AB Ziggy]

I think Far Rock is safe from gentrification.... the commute is a hour from there to midtown, these hipsters love quick commutes to the city... Not to mention those waterfront areas take longer to bounce back from hurricanes.

Coney Island might be safe too.

Also one of those Black Queens neighborhoods is like one of the wealthiest black neighborhoods in the country, whites are not taking over those neighborhoods.


Blacks in Queens [Except for QB and nearby projects], BX and SI should be fine, its Blacks in brooklyn that should be worried, unless you live in ENY or the Ville.


at you making it seem like Staten Island is Blacks have the North Shore of SI on lock

Maybe i exagerrated with SI a little bit.

I disagree with C.I. tbh. i

I think Far Rock is safe from gentrification.... the commute is a hour from there to midtown, these hipsters love quick commutes to the city... Not to mention those waterfront areas take longer to bounce back from hurricanes.

Coney Island might be safe too.

Also one of those Black Queens neighborhoods is like one of the wealthiest black neighborhoods in the country, whites are not taking over those neighborhoods.


Blacks in Queens [Except for QB and nearby projects], BX and SI should be fine, its Blacks in brooklyn that should be worried, unless you live in ENY or the Ville.


at you making it seem like Staten Island is Blacks have the North Shore of SI on lock

Ville gon be next to be taken over tbh. I saw quite a few cacs out there last week running in spandex n shyt.

ENY might hold off a little longer tho. i agree with ya on tht.

 

[*L*E*G*A*C*Y*]

 

[Poitier]

In 1985 did you think white people would ever return to major cities? Black folks were caught by surprise. It happens.

Why should we have to plan around what White people do? We got the means to approach things smarter and not play the victim anymore.

 

[Doctor Wily]

Cambria Heights & pretty much the entire bordering Towns and villages south of Queens Village are safe from.that shyt.

 

[*L*E*G*A*C*Y*]

I think Far Rock is safe from gentrification.... the commute is a hour from there to midtown, these hipsters love quick commutes to the city... Not to mention those waterfront areas take longer to bounce back from hurricanes.

Coney Island might be safe too.

Also one of those Black Queens neighborhoods is like one of the wealthiest black neighborhoods in the country, whites are not taking over those neighborhoods.


Blacks in Queens [Except for QB and nearby projects], BX and SI should be fine, its Blacks in brooklyn that should be worried, unless you live in ENY or the Ville.


at you making it seem like Staten Island is Blacks have the North Shore of SI on lock

I was working out in SI for a Life insurance agency. In general, I just don't think Staten Island is a desirable place for out of state transplants to live just due to the spread out nature of it and the limits with public transportation out there. If you're not taking the bus across the Verrazano, then you're taking a ferry from Whitehall and South Ferry. It's completely different from the rest of the other boroughs.

 

[TLR Is Mental Poison]

I think Far Rock is safe from gentrification.... the commute is a hour from there to midtown, these hipsters love quick commutes to the city... Not to mention those waterfront areas take longer to bounce back from hurricanes.

Coney Island might be safe too.

Also one of those Black Queens neighborhoods is like one of the wealthiest black neighborhoods in the country, whites are not taking over those neighborhoods.


Blacks in Queens [Except for QB and nearby projects], BX and SI should be fine, its Blacks in brooklyn that should be worried, unless you live in ENY or the Ville.


at you making it seem like Staten Island is Blacks have the North Shore of SI on lock

I know young white folks who live in the Rockaways

I think a bit of the hate is misplaced. A lot of the young white people in places like BK are FROM NYC. Plus a lot of people got pushed out of Manhattan. Black people aren't the only ones getting moved around by gentrification. The whole "trust fund" thing is a little goofy as well. I know a lot of these people. Some of them live two to a room like Mexicans. You gotta understand, nobody wants to live in the hood... "outsiders" generally move there because they have no other options. Why would anyone move somewhere where nobody looks like them or wants them around?

Gentrification is far reaching brehs, look beyond our world. Me n wifey were makign good dough, we had a place in the UES and still put a good bit of money away... but we had to leave NYC. Even discounting all the quality of life issues, we couldn't afford to take that next step. We would have been just scraping by w/a house and some kids. Likewise a white person in ENY is probably just scraping by as well. Stop looking at the shyt through the lens of race and look at it through the lens of economics

 

[the next guy]

Why should we have to plan around what White people do? We got the means to approach things smarter and not play the victim anymore.

I'm not saying that. I'm saying who could have guess people would get tired of driving for 2 hours a day just to come to work and move back into the city. Suburban flight was a historical mistake and now it's being corrected.