My NYC Black Folk......Gentrification

[ogc163]

When the last time u seen a Mohican

Now its, "The Last Of The Boricuans"

I saw with my own eyes, nice cute tall Blonde haired becky jogging with full workout gear on 3rd Ave in the middle of the afternoon. At first I was then it became I was there for 3 days and it was mixed emotions. I just sat and chilled in McD's on 3rd for a couple of minutes and the level of ratchedness and stagnation had me like On one hand I can't stand these Iowa transplants but at the same time folks who live on the block are just stuck.

 

[newworldafro]

THEY WILL FIND A WAY. YALL NIKKAZ IN THE BRONX THINK THE BRONX IS UNCONQUERABLE TO CACS? THEY ENSLAVED ENTIRE CONTINENTS !!!!

................................................................ :genocide: ......

 

[Gallo]

You know I haven't heard anyone post about Bill Di Blasio, next NYC mayor, and how he may impact the current course of gentrification. He is very progressive. After almost two decades with wall street friendly republican mayors NYC will finally have another liberal. He could have a positive impact on low income New Yorkers - more affordable housing and the like.

 

[TLR Is Mental Poison]

Its too late bruh, Bloomberg locked up w/e new construction opportunities there were for the luxury market

Which pushed regular folks into the hood

And will continue pushing folks in the hood down south and to Patterson

NYC needed Bill Deblasio 10 years ago

 

[Mike Ock]

this is very true. they have str8 made neighborhoods up now south park slope is one i remember in particular....i was looking at the realtor like this is sunset park.

....add "Stuyvesant Heights" to that too. I'm not gonna lie, the price of living is getting kinda out of hand...but the social scene in BK has improved drastically. I don't find any need to go to Manhattan now, aside for work.

 

[BillBanneker]

I guess I'll never get to live in the new ny now

 

[Poitier]

You know I haven't heard anyone post about Bill Di Blasio, next NYC mayor, and how he may impact the current course of gentrification. He is very progressive. After almost two decades with wall street friendly republican mayors NYC will finally have another liberal. He could have a positive impact on low income New Yorkers - more affordable housing and the like.

It's too late.

 

[Captain Crunch]

We still have a chance brehs. Come down south brehs. Its so easy. Let those idiots up north struggle with all those crippling economic forces. Its a fool's game. You can come down south and be a homeowner on a $40K/yr income.

Co-sign
All my NY brehs could own a home in/near downtown Raleigh; Charlotte, ATL, and Memphis.
Sure you won't have 24/7 subways or as much nightlife, but there's floods of universities to meet women and it's a more livable pace.

 

[Francis White]

I figured it all out, i do design and spec work and i was talking with a GC who explained that when these areas and renovated and gentrified and the regulars are displaced it is part of the plan, the plan to build super complexes for low and median income people . I am hearing there are areas already zoned for these complexes, you don't think income is going to rise and and certain jobs to keep the people who work in retail and service related jobs in their homes because they are not. You will soon start to hear about the housing shortage for regular NYC people and this is a crisis and some politician will have a a study performed on how we can keep "real" NY alive, the solution, super complexes delivering affordable housing and jobs to the community and providing a huge windfall to the managing companies that will run them. I just found out my company is closing my branch and i will need a new job since my company has a no policy. I just interviewed for a new company that will do these types of projects and i was stunned at the offer i was made, it will mean way less posting on the coli but for once i can say i make white man money for my field. If anyone has a design background, prepare to eat well in the near future.

 

[Poitier]

I figured it all out, i do design and spec work and i was talking with a GC who explained that when these areas and renovated and gentrified and the regulars are displaced it is part of the plan, the plan to build super complexes for low and median income people . I am hearing there are areas already zoned for these complexes, you don't think income is going to rise and and certain jobs to keep the people who work in retail and service related jobs in their homes because they are not. You will soon start to hear about the housing shortage for regular NYC people and this is a crisis and some politician will have a a study performed on how we can keep "real" NY alive, the solution, super complexes delivering affordable housing and jobs to the community and providing a huge windfall to the managing companies that will run them. I just found out my company is closing my branch and i will need a new job since my company has a no policy. I just interviewed for a new company that will do these types of projects and i was stunned at the offer i was made, it will mean way less posting on the coli but for once i can say i make white man money for my field. If anyone has a design background, prepare to eat well in the near future.

How do they decide who gets to live in the complexes? What would stop the fake poor super rich people from living in them? How would they know if you work in service or retail?

 

[Wild self]

Its too late bruh, Bloomberg locked up w/e new construction opportunities there were for the luxury market

Which pushed regular folks into the hood

And will continue pushing folks in the hood down south and to Patterson

NYC needed Bill Deblasio 10 years ago

Yep. Post 9/11 cleaned up a lot of shyt. At the same time, I seen die hard NYers even caving in and decide to move out the northeast.

Once Atlanta's film industry fully maturates, it's going to be a better city to live in for Blacks than NYC. More affordable and more of us.



Yeah, it's a worldwide phenomena due to the global economy. The Rich are hoarding wealth everywhere. I suspect most of it is due to all the cool public services you get in a city: subways, parks, museums, but mostly I think once shyt hits the fan and global warming really starts wiping out people, these dudes want to be exorbitantly rich enough to be protected, I guess.

That is true, but you really think that you can raise a family in a crowded ass city and still be functional?

 

[TLR Is Mental Poison]

If you are not making six figures it makes no sense to stay

 

[Poitier]

Yep. Post 9/11 cleaned up a lot of shyt. At the same time, I seen die hard NYers even caving in and decide to move out the northeast.


That is true, but you really think that you can raise a family in a crowded ass city and still be functional?

Atlanta isn't crowded. It's more like LA in that it is sprawled out. It's not fully developed like a NYC. More liberal Blacks coming down South means more progressive things in the South as well like better subways, more nightlife, etc

 

[Francis White]

How do they decide who gets to live in the complexes? What would stop the fake poor super rich people from living in them? How would they know if you work in service or retail?

They don't and i know someone who had his "artist" girlfriend apply and get one of these places on the upper westside..

 

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

this is very true. they have str8 made neighborhoods up now south park slope is one i remember in particular....i was looking at the realtor like this is sunset park.

DUMBO
East Williamsburg
Lower East Bushwick
BoCoCa
Anything with an acronym...yea, straight made up neighborhoods.

The New York Times is probably the biggest proponent of gentrification in my opinion though. That newspaper (I've come to realize) only represents the interests of the yuppie and moneyed breed of New York. It doesn't represent the interests of any real New Yorkers or working class New Yorkers, that's for damn sure. Other than their news journalism, I feel everytime I read that paper that it's just not for people like me. That's the point.

All those neighborhood names are just done to make transplants (really white people) feel safe in the hood while paying upscale prices. And with that comes the increased police presence, artisinal and vegetarian eateries, yoga studios, gentrification clubs/bars, yuppies with three seat strollers for their future loser kids walking past former drug houses that will soon be "artist colonies" for eurotrash and lost people from Montana with worthless $100,000 art school degrees, and all of that tripe.

If you are not making six figures it makes no sense to stay

So true. All of these hipsters slumming it will be getting the axe too. Sure, they have loot to enter here and make somewhat of a living, but like everyone else in this city, they don't own property and will be priced out like everyone else. Making way for the yuppies and disgustingly rich people who will be able to live here.