My NYC Black Folk......Gentrification
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ogc163
Superstar
Because we the last of the mohicans, nah but I just got back a couple hours ago my sister said the white folks are out here and be jogging...and this is on 163rd and 3rd ave. near McKinley's and Forest PJ's Well it looks the Iowans win again
Captain Crunch
Veteran
To be fair all of the Bronx won't be gentrified, only the South Bronx. Like Tremont said, the Cross Bronx makes this nearly impossible. Even with the South Bronx, you have enclaves that are RIGHT by the highway or are far from the subway, so not all of the South Bronx.
I saw quite a few of em wearing spandex on 138th the other day. It's already happening.
*L*E*G*A*C*Y*
Done.
So, I was in my least favorite neighborhood in all of NYC today...WILLIAMSBURG!
GOD DAMN I fukkING HATE THIS NEIGHBORHOOD!
I saw some 90 pound scrawny weakling in the Bedford L Train station strumming on his ukelele and whining about stuff and I honestly wanted to just fukking take the shyt and break it in front of his face while he cried mercilessly about it. I don't know what it was cause I don't usually mind street performers in the subway, but this hipster fukk boi today made me mad.
GOD DAMN I fukkING HATE THIS NEIGHBORHOOD!
I saw some 90 pound scrawny weakling in the Bedford L Train station strumming on his ukelele and whining about stuff and I honestly wanted to just fukking take the shyt and break it in front of his face while he cried mercilessly about it. I don't know what it was cause I don't usually mind street performers in the subway, but this hipster fukk boi today made me mad.
Francis White
i been away to long, my feeling died.
LIC is gentrified already, get off the 21 st train last year and it was mixed, Spanish, black and some white, got off this year and it was 85% white, i was stunned , i was walking around and i was looking at these new apartments and man it changed like in a 1 year. It was crazy. The projects will be there but it is such a small area now.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
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.
Yep, dunno why heads in here think that it is OK to rent all your life and have nothing to pass down to your kids.
Carolina Slim
Superstar
my old hood.... 
*L*E*G*A*C*Y*
Done.
This.
I really could not see myself living here for more than 5 years. I want a house with a backyard and some space.
Stop thinking short term. Sounds cliche, but its true.
When the last time u seen a Mohican
Now its, "The Last Of The Boricuans"
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.
Why are you so worried when you not even from here?
I have a theory that the real estate people influence the NYT to talk up these neighborhoods as up and coming to bring up the prices.
