My NYC Black Folk......Gentrification

[Poitier]

NYC will become the new Singapore or Abu Dhabi. A place for the rich 1% to vacation and circle jerk. I'm not sure where the people who service and feed them will live but they probably have a plan in place. I just don't get how 99% of the world's population is just sitting by and letting people leech the last bit of wealth any of us have


We are going to die working minimum wage jobs. Retirement will be an old concept to people under 50.

 

[Francis White]

NYC will become the new Singapore or Abu Dhabi. A place for the rich 1% to vacation and circle jerk. I'm not sure where the people who service and feed them will live but they probably have a plan in place. I just don't get how 99% of the world's population is just sitting by and letting people leech the last bit of wealth any of us have


We are going to die working minimum wage jobs. Retirement will be an old concept to people under 50.

I just posted there will be super complexes to house the non rich and working class, i said anyone in design is going to eat good now.

 

[mson]

I just posted there will be super complexes to house the non rich and working class, i said anyone in design is going to eat good now.

How much are you going to make?

 

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

NYC will become the new Singapore or Abu Dhabi. A place for the rich 1% to vacation and circle jerk. I'm not sure where the people who service and feed them will live but they probably have a plan in place. I just don't get how 99% of the world's population is just sitting by and letting people leech the last bit of wealth any of us have


We are going to die working minimum wage jobs. Retirement will be an old concept to people under 50.

NYC is turning into Dubai.

Pretty much the way I look at Brooklyn, Queens, the Bronx, and Staten Island is Phase 1 and Phase 2.

North Brooklyn (especially Williamsburg) is phase 2. Complete. Luxury condos, luxury retailers, Luxury apartments.

The rest of Brooklyn and the other boroughs...Phase 1. Meaning it's starting to change and developers already have their eyes on it and it's a "work in progress".

 

[ucanthandlethetruth]

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.



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.

so much intelligence in this post
how could i forget SoBro

 

[Francis White]

How much are you going to make?

To start 147K and in 3 months the bonuses kick in, it will allot more work and pretty much the end of my coli posting during the day. I am hoping i get it, had a follow interview with another head design guy at the company and i think that went well also. Everyone in the company is Euro and that is in the back of my head, but they are the tops in that field, nothing higher.

 

[Michael's Black Son]

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.

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.[/quote]

and when it's all said and done, there wont be shyt left, sadly.
these kids/people coming here from lord knows where are just little "upscale" lab rats who have merely been sent to test the waters in areas that are being transformed from the hood to what some developers/city planners eventually want it to be.

bottom line is that if you dont own your land (and who really "owns" land) then youre at the mercy of any entity that can decide at the drop of a hat that it's time for change. seeing/reading about what has happened to much of the public housing in Chicago shows me that NY isnt immune to our own projects getting torn down at some point. These buildings sit on VERY large parcels of valuable land and i'm sure developers salivate at just the thought of taking some of these projects off of the city's hands

and while some of "us" might own some stuff here and there, lets be real, the huge bulk of blacks in NY rent or live in public housing and the youth seem like they just dont "get it" when it comes to how shyt is changing and will make it harder for them to even survive with some dignity moving ahead

 

[mson]

To start 147K and in 3 months the bonuses kick in, it will allot more work and pretty much the end of my coli posting during the day. I am hoping i get it, had a follow interview with another head design guy at the company and i think that went well also. Everyone in the company is Euro and that is in the back of my head, but they are the tops in that field, nothing higher.

Black excellence


What school did you go to?

 

[Poitier]

I just posted there will be super complexes to house the non rich and working class, i said anyone in design is going to eat good now.

That doesn't make sense. Unless they track every thing you do, how could they possible know who is who. Why would they tear down all the projects and build new ones? That sounds like the dumbest idea I have ever heard. I know in the LES they been kicking out all the poor people and turning them into "co-opts" but the only people in them are Rich transplants and Jews.

 

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

and when it's all said and done, there wont be shyt left, sadly.
these kids/people coming here from lord knows where are just little "upscale" lab rats who have merely been sent to test the waters in areas that are being transformed from the hood to what some developers/city planners eventually want it to be.

bottom line is that if you dont own your land (and who really "owns" land) then youre at the mercy of any entity that can decide at the drop of a hat that it's time for change. seeing/reading about what has happened to much of the public housing in Chicago shows me that NY isnt immune to our own projects getting torn down at some point. These buildings sit on VERY large parcels of valuable land and i'm sure developers salivate at just the thought of taking some of these projects off of the city's hands

and while some of "us" might own some stuff here and there, lets be real, the huge bulk of blacks in NY rent or live in public housing and the youth seem like they just dont "get it" when it comes to how shyt is changing and will make it harder for them to even survive with some dignity moving ahead

I don't see those project buildings getting torn down (especially in Manhattan) cause they have some of the best views in the city. If anything, I can see those buildings being turned into luxury apartments and the residents getting a check from wealthy developers for a couple of thousands to GTFO.

 

[Michael's Black Son]

I don't see those project buildings getting torn down (especially in Manhattan) cause they have some of the best views in the city. If anything, I can see those buildings being turned into luxury apartments and the residents getting a check for a couple of thousands from wealthy developers to GTFO.

while the projects may look like shyt from the outside, they are very solid buildings, so you're right. but leave it up to a developer with deep pockets and they'd want to put up a building with floor to ceiling windows, ridiculous lobbies and some kind of fancy parking structure. it would be hard to retrofit some projects to meet today's tastes when you have 6-7 story lux condo buildings that look fly.

but when that day comes to rip these buildings down, and it will come, it's gonna be a feast for these developers

 

[Poitier]

I don't see those project buildings getting torn down (especially in Manhattan) cause they have some of the best views in the city. If anything, I can see those buildings being turned into luxury apartments and the residents getting a check for a couple of thousands from wealthy developers to GTFO.

It's already happened. They call them "co-opts". If you walk around LES and Chinatown on like Essex/Delancey, East Broadway/Clinton, Suffolk/Grand, and there are tons of them on FDR. LES down to Clinton is gentrified but you can see that they are going to develop everything past Ridge street cause right now it's pretty bare and just projects and old apartment buildings. Those people don't know they are on borrowed time. shyt is sad.

 

[ZEupTWN]

A lot of people don't want to live in the south.

the south is cool but people got to realize it aint for everybody
i know a bunch of people who moved down south and ended up coming back or moving elsewhere cause things dried up quick.....thats why im weary about of moving out there

but living in the DMV i do notice a lot more NY/NJ transplants.......

 

[ucanthandlethetruth]

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.

and when it's all said and done, there wont be shyt left, sadly.
these kids/people coming here from lord knows where are just little "upscale" lab rats who have merely been sent to test the waters in areas that are being transformed from the hood to what some developers/city planners eventually want it to be.

bottom line is that if you dont own your land (and who really "owns" land) then youre at the mercy of any entity that can decide at the drop of a hat that it's time for change. seeing/reading about what has happened to much of the public housing in Chicago shows me that NY isnt immune to our own projects getting torn down at some point. These buildings sit on VERY large parcels of valuable land and i'm sure developers salivate at just the thought of taking some of these projects off of the city's hands

and while some of "us" might own some stuff here and there, lets be real, the huge bulk of blacks in NY rent or live in public housing and the youth seem like they just dont "get it" when it comes to how shyt is changing and will make it harder for them to even survive with some dignity moving ahead

great points in this post. even if you own your shyt whenever the goverment wants they can take it through eminent domain. the most recent example of this was all around atlantic/pacific ave and surrounding buildings by the barclays center. even cacs with money were some held out longer to get bigger paychecks but they knew it was wrap. once the govt uses that its nothing you can do they just debo your shyt

 

[Poitier]

the south is cool but people got to realize it aint for everybody
i know a bunch of people who moved down south and ended up coming back or moving elsewhere cause things dried up quick.....thats why im weary about of moving out there

but living in the DMV i do notice a lot more NY/NJ transplants.......

See that's the problem. You have to think longterm. The North is fully developed and thus has a higher demand. The South is still in infancy and so it'd be better to get in right now while the price is low. Of course it can't compare, but if you get in now and wait, you can triple your value. I mean that is if you even have anything of value living in NY where you rent everything. If we could get more Liberal people to come down South and offset all this ignorance, we could have a fully funded subway, a thriving movie industry (Atlanta is already becoming the new it spot for shooting films), better nightlife, and most important, BLACK PEOPLE WOULD OWN THERE HOMES AT A CHEAPER PRICE AND WATCH THE VALUE RISE.

great points in this post. even if you own your shyt whenever the goverment wants they can take it through eminent domain. the most recent example of this was all around atlantic/pacific ave and surrounding buildings by the barclays center. even cacs with money were some held out longer to get bigger paychecks but they knew it was wrap. once the govt uses that its nothing you can do they just debo your shyt

Hey, you still get paid. Renters don't get shyt but a "I hope you enjoyed your time"