get that $$$$$ and you gonna really see the shyt pop
My NYC Black Folk......Gentrification
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get that $$$$$ and you gonna really see the shyt pop
Mikael Blowpiff
#LosIngobernabrehs
if atlantic yards has taught us anything its that if somethings valuable enough they'll find a way to get it. not to mention that most of the people buying up these neighborhoods are international investment groups. if theres a group of investors based out of australia willing to pay 1.5 mil cash for a townhouse on quincy st then 1)if you're in the market how do you compete with that and 2)if you're the owner how do you realistically say no?Alright, bruh. We get it.
anyways be wealthy instead of rich, invest in stuff, pull up your damn pants, these bytches are queens but not really they hoes yadda yadda.
the next guy
Superstar
It's so easy to be black power black power but when you in the cut in the bar in Bushwick, Williamsburg, Fort Greene, UES, etc the games changes youIt is...
Alright, even after last night...I just kind of found it hard to be on that hardcore tip that I've been on. I feel like it's almost funny.
I was out with this 33 year old beautiful white chick that looks like Tawny Kitaen (the chick that was in the WhiteSnake videos in the 80s) and she's touching all over me and shyt and kissing me up and down in this reggae bar while drinking caprinhas...I was like
These women be sweating a brother like WHOA...I gots to give them what they want!
King Crimson
Member of a very exclusive gang
Most definitely. Thats going to be the dilemma.
In recent months, I've slightly softened my stance and I find myself coming to terms with the change. As I've come to meet some really cool out of towners, I've realized I was more upset with the seemingly sudden change, and projected the negative actions of some (how big that "some" is, I'll let you decide) to all of them. Many of them are just trying to get by themselves... They're getting screwed by gentrification as well. Nowhere near as much as us, but they're getting caught too. Like three weeks or so ago, there was a rally to freeze rent and increase affordable housing, and I'll be damned if it didn't look like a Mumford andSons concert. Mad white heads out there.
Who will survive in America?
the next guy
Superstar
That's the way to go scott. Remember as much as it might look otherwise, we're all in this together, all of us...Most definitely. Thats going to be the dilemma.
In recent months, I've slightly softened my stance and I find myself coming to terms with the change. As I've come to meet some really cool out of towners, I've realized I was more upset with the seemingly sudden change, and projected the negative actions of some (how big that "some" is, I'll let you decide) to all of them. Many of them are just trying to get by themselves... They're getting screwed by gentrification as well. Nowhere near as much as us, but they're getting caught too. Like three weeks or so ago, there was a rally to freeze rent and increase affordable housing, and I'll be damned if it didn't look like a Mumford andSons concert. Mad white heads out there.
Who will survive in America?
the next guy
Superstar
Is that right?
come on man we all get hurt with the high rent, but the city safe like London is. We did well. The "real nikka" theory isn't working in those midwest cities 
King Crimson
Member of a very exclusive gang
Had to take a picture of this at the Church ave stop on the Q train..someone wrote it on a bunch of the columns.
I don't know what to make of this. Not condoning or condemning it.
Had to take a picture of this at the Church ave stop on the Q train..someone wrote it on a bunch of the columns.
Stop it? Last time I checked it already has happened. East Flatbush isn't, although when I ride that train into Brooklyn College every evening, I am beginning to see more and more white faces every single day of different age groups too. At first I thought many of them were students at the college or residents or going to the Target or Home Goods. To my surprise, many of them have begun to move inwards where rent is still somewhat inexpensive.
I cant lie, I was against and am still somewhat anti-gentrification in my neighborhood; however, it is becoming increasingly difficult to be against by the day with the constant litter, dumping and lack of overall cleanliness by the inhabitants.
Over the past two weeks, I had to step to two sets of groups of teenagers, one male and one female over littering and not curbing their animals right in front of me. Both went down without incident and the kids cleaned up after themselves after I told them to pick that shyt up but the most mind boggling part of the ordeal is that the people live where they litter or let their dogs shyt without a bag.
Stop it? Last time I checked it already has happened. East Flatbush isn't, although when I ride that train into Brooklyn College every evening, I am beginning to see more and more white faces every single day of different age groups too. At first I thought many of them were students at the college or residents or going to the Target or Home Goods. To my surprise, many of them have begun to move inwards where rent is still somewhat inexpensive.
I cant lie, I was against and am still somewhat anti-gentrification in my neighborhood; however, it is becoming increasingly difficult to be against by the day with the constant litter, dumping and lack of overall cleanliness by the inhabitants.
Over the past two weeks, I had to step to two sets of groups of teenagers, one male and one female over littering and not curbing their animals right in front of me. Both went down without incident and the kids cleaned up after themselves after I told them to pick that shyt up but the most mind boggling part of the ordeal is that the people live where they litter or let their dogs shyt without a bag.
They're here in east flatbush
but they're only along the train lines...i was used to seeing a few because i live by downstate so i know theres some who go to school there. im on the 2/5 line at winthrop and the past year there been more and more getting off at my stop. taking the train everyday i see few of them in the mornings but night time its like where all these cacs come from?
Just last saturday i was coming from the city i get off the train its like 11 pm. About 15 cacs get off the train
Then I overhear 2 more cacs right on the corner of nostrand and parkside trying to figure out where rogers ave is.Jerk chicken spot on church and nostrand always got some weirdos in there trying the food looking all befuddled and pissing everyone off cause they dont know how to order or holding up the line. shyt is crazy man..
I just hope they dont come into the numbers. he only good thing is i doubt they come into the numbers.
They're here in east flatbush
im on the 2/5 line at winthrop and the past year there been more and more getting off at my stop. taking the train everyday i see few of them in the mornings but night time its like where all these cacs come from?
Just last saturday i was coming from the city i get off the train its like 11 pm. About 15 cacs get off the train
Jerk chicken spot on church and nostrand always got some weirdos in there trying the food looking all befuddled and pissing everyone off cause they dont know how to order or holding up the line. shyt is crazy man..
I just hope they dont come into the numbers. he only good thing is i doubt they come into the numbers.
They will come in the numbers. Its still cheap comparable to other places in Brooklyn which is literally becoming a city of its own right before our eyes. I was hoping Crown Heights would be to Brooklyn what Harlem is to Manhattan but with nobody in a rush to own anymore its prime for the picking.
I wish some of my people would go easy on the material things and go hard in the paint on ownership. Not necessarily real estate but at least some businesses. I cant tell you how many heads I see driving Porsches and Maserati's and park them in front of homes with crumbling steps, litter and weeds growing from every crevasse.
Fart Knocker
Superstar
They're here in east flatbush
im on the 2/5 line at winthrop and the past year there been more and more getting off at my stop. taking the train everyday i see few of them in the mornings but night time its like where all these cacs come from?
Just last saturday i was coming from the city i get off the train its like 11 pm. About 15 cacs get off the train
Jerk chicken spot on church and nostrand always got some weirdos in there trying the food looking all befuddled and pissing everyone off cause they dont know how to order or holding up the line. shyt is crazy man..
I just hope they dont come into the numbers. he only good thing is i doubt they come into the numbers.
I lived on Flatbush ave and parkside ave. the white invasion has certainly begun there
newworldafro
DeeperThanRapBiggerThanHH
New York slowing down ... literally .. ......
A city as fast paced as this going at 25 mph ..
..........
Officials Plan Adjustments as New York City Slows to 25 M.P.H.
By MATT FLEGENHEIMERJUNE 20, 2014
Mayor Bill de Blasio’s traffic safety push yielded perhaps its most significant change early on Friday, when the State Legislature approved a plan to reduce the default speed limit in New York City to 25 miles per hour.
Now comes the hard part: retooling the highly choreographed traffic dance in a city of 14,000 taxis, 12,700 signalized intersections and 6,000 roadway miles.
The city will have some time. The reduction from 30 m.p.h. cannot begin until 90 days after Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo signs the bill into law. (A spokesman said Mr. Cuomo was expected to do so.)
In the interim, transportation officials have begun plotting the details of the change, with plans that include the highly technical, like recalibrating automated enforcement cameras, and the visual.
“We’ve got to print up new signs,” said Polly Trottenberg, the city’s transportation commissioner, adding, “There are more ‘30’ signs than you would think.”
Among the most far-reaching changes will be adjusting the timing of traffic signals across the city. Ms. Trottenberg said the department set its lights “such that you will have a smooth progression of green lights if you’re driving safely at the posted speed limit.”
As a result, the department said, the amount of time between successive signals turning green will increase.
According to Transportation Alternatives, a cycling and pedestrian advocacy group, the city once calibrated some of its lights for speeds above the posted limit.
“Traffic engineers in the past have been less concerned about speed limit compliance and more concerned about maximum throughput,” said Paul Steely White, the group’s executive director.
Advocates for both pedestrians and drivers agreed that any safety gains from the changes would be limited without more aggressive police enforcement.
John A. Corlett, the legislative committee chairman for AAA New York, said he was skeptical of “how vigorously the N.Y.P.D. enforces 30 on local streets” as it is.
Along some congested corridors, many drivers have little choice but to slow down. According to a Transportation Department report last year, the average speed of a taxicab south of 60th Street was 9.3 m.p.h.
In a video criticizing recent legislative productivity in Albany, Rob Astorino, the Republican candidate seeking to unseat Mr. Cuomo, a Democrat, marveled that lawmakers had focused on “lowering the speed limit in a traffic-choked city where you’re lucky to go 5 miles an hour.”
The speed reduction was a top priority under Mr. de Blasio’s “Vision Zero” plan to eliminate traffic deaths by 2024, an approach adopted from Sweden.
Ms. Trottenberg predicted that New Yorkers would notice little change in their travel times, noting that driving efficiency is often “determined by the intersection far more than it’s determined by the speed on the straightaways.” She also cautioned that roadways with current speed limits of more than 30 m.p.h. would not necessarily drop to 25.
After the change, the city’s speed-tracking cameras, all located near schools, will issue tickets to drivers who travel at least 36 m.p.h. in a 25 m.p.h. zone, according to the Transportation Department, down from the 41 m.p.h. threshold under the current limit.
The difference could be significant. In a memorandum earlier this week, Sherif Soliman, the city’s director of state legislative affairs, said that pedestrians had a 30 percent chance of surviving the impact of a vehicle traveling 40 m.p.h. At 35 m.p.h., the survival rate increases to 50 percent.
The administration also expects to conduct a public awareness initiative concerning the new speed, though it is unclear what form this might take.
Clearly, one recent Transportation Department campaign will have to be revised. A series of advertisements during the Bloomberg administration trumpeted the benefits of following the speed limit. The title: “That’s Why It’s 30.”
A city as fast paced as this going at 25 mph ..
..........Officials Plan Adjustments as New York City Slows to 25 M.P.H.
By MATT FLEGENHEIMERJUNE 20, 2014
Mayor Bill de Blasio’s traffic safety push yielded perhaps its most significant change early on Friday, when the State Legislature approved a plan to reduce the default speed limit in New York City to 25 miles per hour.
Now comes the hard part: retooling the highly choreographed traffic dance in a city of 14,000 taxis, 12,700 signalized intersections and 6,000 roadway miles.
The city will have some time. The reduction from 30 m.p.h. cannot begin until 90 days after Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo signs the bill into law. (A spokesman said Mr. Cuomo was expected to do so.)
In the interim, transportation officials have begun plotting the details of the change, with plans that include the highly technical, like recalibrating automated enforcement cameras, and the visual.
“We’ve got to print up new signs,” said Polly Trottenberg, the city’s transportation commissioner, adding, “There are more ‘30’ signs than you would think.”
Among the most far-reaching changes will be adjusting the timing of traffic signals across the city. Ms. Trottenberg said the department set its lights “such that you will have a smooth progression of green lights if you’re driving safely at the posted speed limit.”
As a result, the department said, the amount of time between successive signals turning green will increase.
According to Transportation Alternatives, a cycling and pedestrian advocacy group, the city once calibrated some of its lights for speeds above the posted limit.
“Traffic engineers in the past have been less concerned about speed limit compliance and more concerned about maximum throughput,” said Paul Steely White, the group’s executive director.
Advocates for both pedestrians and drivers agreed that any safety gains from the changes would be limited without more aggressive police enforcement.
John A. Corlett, the legislative committee chairman for AAA New York, said he was skeptical of “how vigorously the N.Y.P.D. enforces 30 on local streets” as it is.
Along some congested corridors, many drivers have little choice but to slow down. According to a Transportation Department report last year, the average speed of a taxicab south of 60th Street was 9.3 m.p.h.
In a video criticizing recent legislative productivity in Albany, Rob Astorino, the Republican candidate seeking to unseat Mr. Cuomo, a Democrat, marveled that lawmakers had focused on “lowering the speed limit in a traffic-choked city where you’re lucky to go 5 miles an hour.”
The speed reduction was a top priority under Mr. de Blasio’s “Vision Zero” plan to eliminate traffic deaths by 2024, an approach adopted from Sweden.
Ms. Trottenberg predicted that New Yorkers would notice little change in their travel times, noting that driving efficiency is often “determined by the intersection far more than it’s determined by the speed on the straightaways.” She also cautioned that roadways with current speed limits of more than 30 m.p.h. would not necessarily drop to 25.
After the change, the city’s speed-tracking cameras, all located near schools, will issue tickets to drivers who travel at least 36 m.p.h. in a 25 m.p.h. zone, according to the Transportation Department, down from the 41 m.p.h. threshold under the current limit.
The difference could be significant. In a memorandum earlier this week, Sherif Soliman, the city’s director of state legislative affairs, said that pedestrians had a 30 percent chance of surviving the impact of a vehicle traveling 40 m.p.h. At 35 m.p.h., the survival rate increases to 50 percent.
The administration also expects to conduct a public awareness initiative concerning the new speed, though it is unclear what form this might take.
Clearly, one recent Transportation Department campaign will have to be revised. A series of advertisements during the Bloomberg administration trumpeted the benefits of following the speed limit. The title: “That’s Why It’s 30.”