CashmereThoughts
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They already got the blacks out of SF
My NYC Black Folk......Gentrification
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They already got the blacks out of SF
but third world countries make up the majority of countries in the world. It's not just white people that's gentrifying though, if you go to Harlem there's plenty of black yuppies/hipsters. Another big reason in NYC is because crime is at an all time low, I was living in harlem during the 90s and you rarely saw any "gentrifiers"
Sierra Mist
Banned
Isn't it funny how the Great Migration and White Flight are reversing themselves? People think I'm crazy when I bring it up and then when it comes to fruition they try to act like they knew all along.
Not for nothing tho. Out of all the Boroughs. Its really Brooklyn that is gettin hit the worst with that hipster stick. Harlem gentrification is kinda split 70/30 while The BX is relatively untouched.
That SObro shyt is real life tho. They are already starting to put it in formation. Its gonna be straight comedy if they can actually pull it off.
Queens always had cacs and asians.
That SObro shyt is real life tho. They are already starting to put it in formation. Its gonna be straight comedy if they can actually pull it off.
Queens always had cacs and asians.
CashmereThoughts
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They were shook to even travel north of 96th st.
But "cleaning up the city" was part of the plan. It's not a coincidence that the Gentrification came after the cameras, increased police presence, illegal searches, tougher sentencing.
Prior to giuliani , they used to say that NYC was "over" that it was rotten, and was Doomed, now it's the place to be for the upper middle class who are willing to pay 50 percent of their salary to live in areas that were considered ghettos 7-10 years ago.
CashmereThoughts
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Your countisously stating the obvious, we get it guy, your understand the concept of reverse white flight etc...
88m3
Fast Money & Foreign Objects
tremonthustler1
aka bx_representer
the land was fertile. What benefited the gentrification process was that the projects were generally out of the way. Nobody was looking to gentrify East Harlem /Spanish Harlem (they will once that 2nd Avenue Subway is done, but no need to do anything yet). All those projects, Wagner, AK, Jackie Rob, etc. they don't affect the rest of the area yet and it's really hard to access unless you were deliberately trying to go there. Even the Polo Grounds by Rucker Park is near a dead end and a murky train stop, and if you don't wanna go there you can drive right over it.
Everyone acknowledges the attempt to gentrify in the Bronx (I've seen the lofts, straight outta Real World. Studio apartments look good too, and not that expensive either). All you gotta do is get out on the 6 train at any random stop once you enter the Bronx and get out and walk to realize why gentrification will never ever ever ever ever ever happen. If Thriller was remade in 2012, Michael Jackson would chase that girl into the Mitchel Houses.
Sierra Mist
Banned
BX too fukking gully man. Lol my mans got shot at a couple of years ago, just for getting off a bus
. My other boy got his car jacked in right by lehman college, my other nikka got his house broken into and ransacked (funny part is he is a relatively quiet lowkey dude)The BX too gully. And not even gully in a cool way either. Bronx like the home for Dirty nikkas and bytches lol.
Crazy part is because of this gentrification n hyper rent bullshyt, im prolly moving to the South Bronx in the next 5 months
Captain Crunch
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South Bronx is already going through gentrification, I rode my bike over there last week, and you can slowly but surely see the process. Since SoBro is right next to Manhattan and the potential for waterfront property is
Outside of the pollution from all those highways, SoBro can really do damage, plus all the projects in NY will become Co-Ops, so South Bronx(and the rest of NY) will become just like Harlem.