My NYC Black Folk......Gentrification

[Carolina Slim]

Hipsters in Canarsie now?

Dude, they got the whole L train line on lock now. Bedford Ave all the way to Rockaway Pkwy.

 

[Atlrocafella]

I just started fukking with this chick from Canarsie and don't think I ever kicked it out there.

They got hipsters in Canarsie cause I hate them bearded, flanneled up, pocket pooched out, bike riding, wayfarer wearing, Zach Galafinakis ass muthafukkas?

When I would take bus 17 to hit Utica to take the train, and saw that amount of Hipsters walking through there with ease, that's when I knew shiit was getting real.

 

[88m3]

Hipsters in Canarsie now?

Dude, they got the whole L train line on lock now. Bedford Ave all the way to Rockaway Pkwy.

When I would take bus 17 to hit Utica to take the train, and saw that amount of Hipsters walking through there with ease, that's when I new shiit was getting real.

I've never noticed that

 

[TLR Is Mental Poison]

Looks like the separation even exists in a building:

Two tales inside one Brooklyn building: Older residents*reside in squalor; yuppies get shiny rehab flats * - NY Daily News

East Flatbush What the fukk is going on???????

 

[The Nigerian]

The problem with your idea that cities should only essentially be for the rich is that poor + working class people are the backbone of the city. Most of the people working retail + low end jobs in the city cannot afford to live in the city... at least Manhattan. Should these people get pushed out to where they have to commute 90, 120, 150 minutes each way, to make room for some young kids who prob won't be in the city for more than 4-5 years anyway? Why do that, when they can just work shytty jobs out where they live? Then what happens to the infrastructure of the city? Youre not thinking this through.

Also your assertion that all poor people are ghetto trash is bogus but not surprising. In any case gentrification is understandable, and when contained to the private sector is fair IMO. But wholesale razings of neighborhoods with no displacement plans or input from the people who live there is wrong. And that level of gentrification is only enabled by govt action. Yes, they somewhat don't have the say that people who own property do, but that doesn't mean we should completely railroad them for a fast buck.

I said that the city was for the working people that can afford to live there. It's fine if you're poor and working, you just have to live where the working poor people live, and that will be further and further away from desirable locations. Let it be known that your dollar would go further as a poor in a rural setting.

Bums serve no purpose to cities. They could easily be relocated to remote areas where they can live off the land instead of living off working people.

Face it, being poor in America is ILLEGAL. Do your best to not be that.

 

[ogc163]

I said that the city was for the working people that can afford to live there. It's fine if you're poor and working, you just have to live where the working poor people live, and that will be further and further away from desirable locations. Let it be known that your dollar would go further as a poor in a rural setting.

Bums serve no purpose to cities. They could easily be relocated to remote areas where they can live off the land instead of living off working people.

Face it, being poor in America is ILLEGAL. Do your best to not be that.

You trolling on some Gundam status right now.

 

[88m3]

he's clearly a c*nt, whatever.

 

[ogc163]

Linden?

That was my first reaction as well. Linden is the reason I only visit Brooklyn twice every four years, that shyt looked like this last time I was there... Skip to (7:48)

 

[The Nigerian]

You trolling on some Gundam status right now.

How the Hell am I trolling with the truth? People with money want to live in these areas. People without money need to leave where the demand for realestate is lower. Simple economics.

What I don't understand is how all of you people think there is some virtue or benefit to having large populations of poor, crime ridden slums in the middle of cities where people who work need to live in peace.

I don't get it.

 

[tremonthustler1]

What I don't understand is how all of you people think there is some virtue or benefit to having large populations of poor, crime ridden slums in the middle of cities where people who work need to live in peace.

I don't get it.

Nobody's saying that. What people are saying is that gentrification takes away from a neighborhood and the identity it has, whether it be good or bad. Even NICE neighborhoods hate gentrification. Even really awful neighborhoods have a charm to them. They have shyt that no other neighborhoods have. For example, Lower Manhattan is mostly nice, and they have a lot of independent bars, eateries, etc. With gentrification, those one of a kind spots get replaced with generic ass shyt to the point where you can't tell one neighborhood from the next. Nobody likes that shyt.

Gentrification frowns upon independent businesses. That pizzeria that you grew up going to in the hood that had the best slices you've ever had, would get replaced with a Dominos. That barber shop where your barber gives you the best shape up would get replaced with a Super Cuts. That little boutique where your mother, sister, or girlfriend shop at to get their one of a kind clothes, now that would be a Forever 21 or some other big store. It removes any uniqueness to where you live, and unless you're a nomad or a person detached from society, a community doesn't want to be without an identity.

 

[The Nigerian]

Nobody's saying that. What people are saying is that gentrification takes away from a neighborhood and the identity it has, whether it be good or bad. Even NICE neighborhoods hate gentrification. Even really awful neighborhoods have a charm to them. They have shyt that no other neighborhoods have. For example, Lower Manhattan is mostly nice, and they have a lot of independent bars, eateries, etc. With gentrification, those one of a kind spots get replaced with generic ass shyt to the point where you can't tell one neighborhood from the next. Nobody likes that shyt.

Gentrification frowns upon independent businesses. That pizzeria that you grew up going to in the hood that had the best slices you've ever had, would get replaced with a Dominos. That barber shop where your barber gives you the best shape up would get replaced with a Super Cuts. That little boutique where your mother, sister, or girlfriend shop at to get their one of a kind clothes, now that would be a Forever 21 or some other big store. It removes any uniqueness to where you live, and unless you're a nomad or a person detached from society, a community doesn't want to be without an identity.

Holy sh!t, cry me a river. And when you're done with that be sure to clean up the mess.

I'm rolling my eyes making the jerk off hand motion and pointing at your post.

If you can't afford to live some where then sorry, but you gots to go.

 

[tremonthustler1]

Holy sh!t, cry me a river. And when you're done with that be sure to clean up the mess.

I'm rolling my eyes making the jerk off hand motion and pointing at your post.

If you can't afford to live some where then sorry, but you gots to go.

Only a snob or a hipster would say some shyt like that. Considering all those fruity avis you had of yourself in All Hip Hop, you're probably a hipster, so I can see why you're a little upset why a neighborhood wouldn't prefer you to move there.

Simply put, a fukked up neighborhood that one can still inhabit >> a better neighborhood that one can't inhabit. Meanwhile you're saying some stupid fortune cookie shyt like "poverty is a mental disorder"

 

[The Nigerian]

Only a snob or a hipster would say some shyt like that. Considering all those fruity avis you had of yourself in All Hip Hop, you're probably a hipster, so I can see why you're a little upset why a neighborhood wouldn't prefer you to move there.

I wear a suit to work every day, breh. I'm not some bartender or a trust fund art student.

I don't care what a bunch of brokeasses think. I can't hear them from my skydeck.

I don't live in one of those trendy gentrified neigborhoods anyway. Too many disgusting tattooed fat chicks with pet cats.

 

[tremonthustler1]

I dont like the word "c-o-o-n".... but if there's one person who fits the bill....

I wouldn't even call The Nigerian a c00n. You can be a c00n and be poor. I ain't never met a broke snob.

I wear a suit to work every day, breh. I'm not some bartender or a trust fund art student.

I don't care what a bunch of brokeasses think. I can't hear them from my skydeck.

I don't live in one of those trendy gentrified neigborhoods anyway. Too many disgusting tattooed fat chicks with pet cats.

Which would make you *drumroll* A SNOB! You're disconnected from anything being said in this thread. Enjoy the skydeck.

 

[The Nigerian]

So going to work every day and living in a decent neighborhood makes a man a snob? Since when?

I think you guys have the game twisted. Cities owe nothing to those that can't support them.

Why should you get all hot and bothered because a bunch of crappy areas get cleaned up?