Captain Crunch
Veteran
I saw some white folks on White Plains Road yesterday, I was like 
My NYC Black Folk......Gentrification
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Add to the fact East New York got the A train and easy access to Atlantic Ave AND Eastern Parkway AND King Highway.
Basically an express route to anywhere in Brooklyn. Plus the Jackie Robinson
Clean that shyt up a little and im moving in
That little pocket between hell and gentrified
If you have about 50k cash give or take and live in New York id buy there right now, in 5 years you wouldve probably tripled your money with borrowed money you didnt even pay back yet. That healthy skim off the top
Basically an express route to anywhere in Brooklyn. Plus the Jackie Robinson
Clean that shyt up a little and im moving in
That little pocket between hell and gentrified
If you have about 50k cash give or take and live in New York id buy there right now, in 5 years you wouldve probably tripled your money with borrowed money you didnt even pay back yet. That healthy skim off the top
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EXCLUSIVE: Developer Youngwoo & Associates buys historic Bronx General Post Office building
http://ny.curbed.com/archives/2014/09/04/young_woo_associates_buys_bronx_general_post_office.php
http://ny.curbed.com/archives/2014/09/04/young_woo_associates_buys_bronx_general_post_office.php
Cave Savage
Feminist
What the hell's been going on in the Bronx the last week or so, NYC brehs? I know it isn't shyt compared to the 80s or 90s but there seems to be a recent spike of crime, lots of people getting stabbed lately.
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Pol on a Roll: Sen. Chuck Schumer's secret bike rides give him special insight into New York City
EXCLUSIVE: Schumer, 63, started biking 13 years ago when his knee gave out and he had to quit playing basketball. The rides clear his mind and give the pol who's never at a loss for words some self-enforced quiet time.
BY Annie Karni
NEW YORK DAILY NEWS
Sunday, October 12, 2014, 2:30 AM
http://www.nydailynews.com/new-york/sen-chuck-schumer-bikes-brooklyn-news-reporter-article-1.1971378
EXCLUSIVE: Schumer, 63, started biking 13 years ago when his knee gave out and he had to quit playing basketball. The rides clear his mind and give the pol who's never at a loss for words some self-enforced quiet time.
BY Annie Karni
NEW YORK DAILY NEWS
Sunday, October 12, 2014, 2:30 AM
http://www.nydailynews.com/new-york/sen-chuck-schumer-bikes-brooklyn-news-reporter-article-1.1971378
BYE-BYE, BED-STUY: How gentrification in one NYC neighborhood is marginalizing a population and making the harsh fantasy of a hateful Robert Moses come true
GUEST COLUMN: The legendary urban planner Robert Moses once said he'd like to - quite literally - rip America's ghettos and their residents from the map. At the top of his list was Bedford-Stuyvesant.
GUEST COLUMN: The legendary urban planner Robert Moses once said he'd like to - quite literally - rip America's ghettos and their residents from the map. At the top of his list was Bedford-Stuyvesant.
courtesty of lsa and original source
Black population plummets as gentrification rolls up the Charleston peninsula
Kurt Walker likes seeing new restaurants popping up and white families with baby strollers walking along the street in his Wagener Terrace neighborhood, but he also fears that black residents are being pushed out as the neighborhood gentrifies.
Walker, who is black, inherited his Peachtree Street house on the Charleston peninsula from his grandmother and has watched the upper west side neighborhood change dramatically. The community had a large black majority - like the entire peninsula once - but it's now the most racially mixed neighborhood downtown.
Since the 1980s, there's been a stunning decline in the number of blacks living on the peninsula. Some neighborhoods - Wagener Terrace, Hampton Park Terrace, and Cannonborough/Elliottborough - lost roughly half of their black population in just one decade, starting in 2000.
Economic forces and demographic change - gentrification - are quickly transforming the upper Charleston peninsula. Those neighborhoods are the last downtown refuges of the middle class, and they have been increasingly attracting real estate investors, student renters, and affluent young adults seeking a more urban lifestyle.
The resurgence of urban centers is a national trend, readily apparent from Brooklyn, N.Y., to Portland, Ore. It's also a generational trend, a reversal of the "white flight" that saw a predominantly white middle class move from cities to suburbs in the 1960s.
In downtown Charleston, that trend has been picking up speed.
Ten years ago, half the single-family homes sold on the peninsula north of the Septima P. Clark Parkway (the Crosstown Expressway) sold for $170,000 or less. So far this year, half have sold for at least $325,000.
While home prices have been rising fast, much of the peninsula's population change is due to rising rents. Most peninsula residents are renters and the voracious demand from college students, who now account for about a third of the peninsula's population, has driven prices higher.
Downtown Charleston's relatively small number of homeowners - particularly longtime owners in the upper peninsula, who tend to be black - are solicited with real estate offers so frequently that some feel they are being pressured to move.
"Don't you ever come on my porch again or I'll call the police," Hampton Park Terrace resident Lesheia Oubre told one man who walked up to her front door with a note offering to buy her house.
Robert Mitchell, a black North Central resident who owns a house on King Street near Huger Street and serves on Charleston City Council, said he's advised constituents to post "no trespassing" signs.
"The people buying these houses are buying them as investments," said Mitchell. "They are coming to people who have had their homes for a while, and in these communities, those are African-American people."
Mitchell said his family sold his late father's property near Rutledge and Line streets to a cash buyer, who fixed it up and resold it. But Mitchell has no plan to sell his own house.
"The only reason I am still here is I bought this house in 1985," said Mitchell. "I get three calls a week from people asking to buy my house."
Around Hampton Park, strong demand for homes drove up the median sale price by $50,000 in just the past year.
"That neighborhood, it is on fire," said Carolina One Realtor Stephanie Wilson-Hartzog, who lives in Wagener Terrace. "It is back, and everyone wants to be there again."
'War of attrition'
Until the 1960s, Wagener Terrace was a white neighborhood in the still-segregated city. Peachtree Street, where Walker lives today, was populated exclusively by white residents in 1961, according to Nelsons' Directory of Charleston, which noted the race of each resident.
Black residents went to black schools and shopped in black shopping districts, such as upper King Street - now a trendy dining and shopping area with few older businesses left.
The schools were desegregated in the 1960s, the same decade when nearly half the white population vanished from the peninsula. It was part of the nationwide trend dubbed "white flight" wherein the white middle class moved, seemingly en masse, from cities to places such as West Ashley.
The post-World War II baby boom was in full swing, developers were essentially inventing the suburbs and the government was paving new roads to get there. Interstate 26, the Crosstown Expressway, and the now-demolished three-lane Pearman bridge between Charleston and Mount Pleasant were all built on the peninsula in the 1960s. These projects provided easier ways for people to commute but also tore through urban neighborhoods.
Now that the pendulum is swinging back, and more people want to live in urban centers, competition for limited amounts of real estate can be intense. In some ways, Charleston's peninsula is like a miniature San Francisco, or Manhattan; the relatively small center of a large and popular urban area, mostly surrounded by water, and increasingly expensive as demand exceeds the supply of housing.
There are about 5,000 single-family homes on the peninsula, a small number that helps explain why Walker has found photocopied notes slipped under his door mat three times offering to buy his home.
"If you are thinking of selling your house, I am a cash buyer and will pay you a good price for it," one note said, promising a $20,000 down payment and the balance whenever Walker decided to move.
Walker, a Burke High School graduate, said his grandmother bought the house in 1982. Like many black residents of this part of town, his house has been in the family for many years.
"Don't sell your mamma's home, it's the biggest investment you have," City Councilman William Dudley Gregorie often tells constituents.
Gregorie, a black former mayoral candidate who was a U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development administrator, doesn't see anything sinister behind the big drop in the peninsula's black population.
"I think it's happening through natural economic forces," he said. "But I think we have a responsibility to make sure people who built it (the city) have a piece of it. Otherwise, we lose what the city is."
The more than 55 percent drop in the black population during the past 30 years was essentially the flip side of what happened during the previous 30 years, between 1950 and 1980, when nearly two-thirds of the peninsula's white population disappeared.
There are far fewer white residents on the peninsula today than in the mid-20th century - about half as many - but the plunge in the peninsula's black population since 1980 has been so large that in 2010, the population became majority white again for the first time in 60 years.
"The number of black families that leave aren't replaced by black families," Walker said. "It's a war of attrition."
Full Article: http://www.postandcourier.com/articl...-the-peninsula
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Black population plummets as gentrification rolls up the Charleston peninsula
Kurt Walker likes seeing new restaurants popping up and white families with baby strollers walking along the street in his Wagener Terrace neighborhood, but he also fears that black residents are being pushed out as the neighborhood gentrifies.
Walker, who is black, inherited his Peachtree Street house on the Charleston peninsula from his grandmother and has watched the upper west side neighborhood change dramatically. The community had a large black majority - like the entire peninsula once - but it's now the most racially mixed neighborhood downtown.
Since the 1980s, there's been a stunning decline in the number of blacks living on the peninsula. Some neighborhoods - Wagener Terrace, Hampton Park Terrace, and Cannonborough/Elliottborough - lost roughly half of their black population in just one decade, starting in 2000.
Economic forces and demographic change - gentrification - are quickly transforming the upper Charleston peninsula. Those neighborhoods are the last downtown refuges of the middle class, and they have been increasingly attracting real estate investors, student renters, and affluent young adults seeking a more urban lifestyle.
The resurgence of urban centers is a national trend, readily apparent from Brooklyn, N.Y., to Portland, Ore. It's also a generational trend, a reversal of the "white flight" that saw a predominantly white middle class move from cities to suburbs in the 1960s.
In downtown Charleston, that trend has been picking up speed.
Ten years ago, half the single-family homes sold on the peninsula north of the Septima P. Clark Parkway (the Crosstown Expressway) sold for $170,000 or less. So far this year, half have sold for at least $325,000.
While home prices have been rising fast, much of the peninsula's population change is due to rising rents. Most peninsula residents are renters and the voracious demand from college students, who now account for about a third of the peninsula's population, has driven prices higher.
Downtown Charleston's relatively small number of homeowners - particularly longtime owners in the upper peninsula, who tend to be black - are solicited with real estate offers so frequently that some feel they are being pressured to move.
"Don't you ever come on my porch again or I'll call the police," Hampton Park Terrace resident Lesheia Oubre told one man who walked up to her front door with a note offering to buy her house.
Robert Mitchell, a black North Central resident who owns a house on King Street near Huger Street and serves on Charleston City Council, said he's advised constituents to post "no trespassing" signs.
"The people buying these houses are buying them as investments," said Mitchell. "They are coming to people who have had their homes for a while, and in these communities, those are African-American people."
Mitchell said his family sold his late father's property near Rutledge and Line streets to a cash buyer, who fixed it up and resold it. But Mitchell has no plan to sell his own house.
"The only reason I am still here is I bought this house in 1985," said Mitchell. "I get three calls a week from people asking to buy my house."
Around Hampton Park, strong demand for homes drove up the median sale price by $50,000 in just the past year.
"That neighborhood, it is on fire," said Carolina One Realtor Stephanie Wilson-Hartzog, who lives in Wagener Terrace. "It is back, and everyone wants to be there again."
'War of attrition'
Until the 1960s, Wagener Terrace was a white neighborhood in the still-segregated city. Peachtree Street, where Walker lives today, was populated exclusively by white residents in 1961, according to Nelsons' Directory of Charleston, which noted the race of each resident.
Black residents went to black schools and shopped in black shopping districts, such as upper King Street - now a trendy dining and shopping area with few older businesses left.
The schools were desegregated in the 1960s, the same decade when nearly half the white population vanished from the peninsula. It was part of the nationwide trend dubbed "white flight" wherein the white middle class moved, seemingly en masse, from cities to places such as West Ashley.
The post-World War II baby boom was in full swing, developers were essentially inventing the suburbs and the government was paving new roads to get there. Interstate 26, the Crosstown Expressway, and the now-demolished three-lane Pearman bridge between Charleston and Mount Pleasant were all built on the peninsula in the 1960s. These projects provided easier ways for people to commute but also tore through urban neighborhoods.
Now that the pendulum is swinging back, and more people want to live in urban centers, competition for limited amounts of real estate can be intense. In some ways, Charleston's peninsula is like a miniature San Francisco, or Manhattan; the relatively small center of a large and popular urban area, mostly surrounded by water, and increasingly expensive as demand exceeds the supply of housing.
There are about 5,000 single-family homes on the peninsula, a small number that helps explain why Walker has found photocopied notes slipped under his door mat three times offering to buy his home.
"If you are thinking of selling your house, I am a cash buyer and will pay you a good price for it," one note said, promising a $20,000 down payment and the balance whenever Walker decided to move.
Walker, a Burke High School graduate, said his grandmother bought the house in 1982. Like many black residents of this part of town, his house has been in the family for many years.
"Don't sell your mamma's home, it's the biggest investment you have," City Councilman William Dudley Gregorie often tells constituents.
Gregorie, a black former mayoral candidate who was a U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development administrator, doesn't see anything sinister behind the big drop in the peninsula's black population.
"I think it's happening through natural economic forces," he said. "But I think we have a responsibility to make sure people who built it (the city) have a piece of it. Otherwise, we lose what the city is."
The more than 55 percent drop in the black population during the past 30 years was essentially the flip side of what happened during the previous 30 years, between 1950 and 1980, when nearly two-thirds of the peninsula's white population disappeared.
There are far fewer white residents on the peninsula today than in the mid-20th century - about half as many - but the plunge in the peninsula's black population since 1980 has been so large that in 2010, the population became majority white again for the first time in 60 years.
"The number of black families that leave aren't replaced by black families," Walker said. "It's a war of attrition."
Full Article: http://www.postandcourier.com/articl...-the-peninsula
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they are priced out of the suburbs.....
Most of them actually come from NJ and CT,
http://gothamist.com/2014/04/02/transplants_come_from_nj_ct_not_ohi.php#.