Around what street are you at breh?
My NYC Black Folk......Gentrification
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Around what street are you at breh?
So much subsidized/public housing 
I was working there and that shyt look like ENY, almost got caught in a shootout
I ain't trying to have Bronx problems
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Shoutout to East New York. I swear it felt like there wasn't a cac in sight when I was over there a week ago. 
Shoutout to East New York. I swear it felt like there wasn't a cac in sight when I was over there a week ago.
I havent been in Brooklyn in a minute...
areas but for the most part NOPE.... 
I used to think they were sticking to the avenues close to the 2 and 5 but they are venturing out like vines as someone mentioned earlier. I am seeing them in the 40s and on the 103 bus as well. I am also seeing an influx of Asians as well. Its only a matter of time before the entire Flatbush avenue from the college to the Bridge is mostly white and or asian.
I cant see East New York but then again with the expansion of that Gateway mall and all those suburban box stores, they have to be catering to somebody. Shoprite and JCPenney etc. I cant see ENY because of the infrastructure and limited transit whereas Flatbush has the red, green as well as some of the alphabet lines (b and q). In my opinion, I give it 10 years tops.
@Fat Kevin industrial is perfect. Cacs love industrial. Williamsburg and Bushwick are 80% industrial. It means theres "lofts" there.
@Fat Kevin @Tupac in a Business Suit But like I said this is bigger than what you feel the demand wants, Mayor DiBlasio is purposely targeting East New York for some major development around Atlantic in ENY.
read the article:
http://gothamist.com/2014/07/22/east_new_york_gentrification_afford.php
The mayor has even chosen a single square mile in Cypress Hills, a subsection in the northeast section of East New York, to be the first of 15 sites slated for development under his $41 billion affordable housing plan, which is supposed to build or retain 200,000 affordable units in 10 years.
But in a district where the area median income is around $32,000/year—one of the poorest in the city—residents like Janice likely won't be able to live in those "affordable" units. And for all its promises, Mayor de Blasio's strategy for building affordable housing looks an awful lot like Mayor Bloomberg's.
"It will please big developers while offering a sprinkling of housing," says Tom Angotti, a professor of urban affairs and planning at Hunter College and the Graduate Center, referring to de Blasio's plan. "It's no different than Bloomberg's plan to upzone wide areas for high-rise development and then get a little bit of affordable housing to win over the community."
These are 50/50 affordable housing buildings (meaning 50% is affordable housing, the other 50 is "market rate"
). Atlantic is going to be targeted for retail development with incentives given. Now with all these shiny new buildings going up, its going to be a domino effect, with private owners now renovating and/or jews coming in and buying up the property to renovate.Transportation is great with Broadway Junction offering the A/C/L/J trains that get to all the cool neighborhoods.
This is that same bullshyt Ratner pulled with Atlantic Yards, drawing up a plan talking about "affordable housing", now we see what happened with that area around Barclays. (mind you buildings that have yet to be built while Barclays rakes in billions and a 1 bedroom in that area now stands at $2600).
Mind you this is the same demographic who takes the L train. Its gunna be, hey we'd only be 5 minutes from Bushwick. Thats how Bushwick got on by saying hey were only 5 mins from Williamsburg.
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@Ego Eimis same here. If the bush goes im done completely.
Most of the cacs that live by me are cacs that work at kings county,, downstate or are medical students.
The one saving grace that flatbush especially east flatbush might have is the fact that it has its deep West Indian roots and culture so it has that community effect/feel which will make it harder to do a full scale take over like parts of the stuy, crown heights and theyre thinking with east ny. However it is ripe for taking but i dont think theyll be as concentrated.
What would be scary though is if the cacs started buying up all the one family houses(which east flatbush has alot of) and moving families in and making it their suburbs
Thats what did the stuy and crown heights in. All those multi family dwellings that investors bought and rented out with great accessibility to the train and that brownstone urban living. ENY is still borderline to me also. Theyve been tryign to get cacs there for years and if they get that proposed development going then watch out..
@Ego Eimis same here. If the bush goes im done completely.
Most of the cacs that live by me are cacs that work at kings county,, downstate or are medical students.
The one saving grace that flatbush especially east flatbush might have is the fact that it has its deep West Indian roots and culture so it has that community effect/feel which will make it harder to do a full scale take over like parts of the stuy, crown heights and theyre thinking with east ny. However it is ripe for taking but i dont think theyll be as concentrated.
What would be scary though is if the cacs started buying up all the one family houses(which east flatbush has alot of) and moving families in and making it their suburbs
ENY is still borderline to me also. Theyve been tryign to get cacs there for years and if they get that proposed development going then watch out..
well I was looking for an apt recently in Flatbush and I got blocked out cause most of the buildings, are owned by Jews and nowadays they employ their jewish realtors to rent for them, and its not the realtors of old who just checked if you worked. they have strict credit requirements above a 650. 90% of the people that qualify will be of what race?
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i miss the BX (as well as flatbush)
Damn..not surprising tho..i see where youre getting at...what was the rent you were looking at and what blocks? Just wanna get a gauge on whats happening and where..
I know jews own most of the real estate in the city but alot of east flatbush is owned by the people who live there and i was hoping they wont fall prey to what happened elsewhere in the borough..
they cant have the bush man