My NYC Black Folk......Gentrification

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Private development on public land: It’s happening.
First buildings chosen in city's "NextGen Neighborhoods" program
Wyckoff Gardens in Boerum Hill and Holmes Towers, the only public housing project on the Upper East Side, will be the proving grounds for the NYCHA’s “NextGen Neighborhoods” plan to refurbish the existing buildings, add new units and boost the agency’s revenue.

NYCHA officials have said the “infill housing” program will create 1,000 units of housing in total, part of 7,500 units the city plans to build on public land in the next 10 years, Politico reported.

- See more at: NYCHA | Affordable Housing | Holmes Towers

 

[Cave Savage]

Codes?? Look at Manhattan... Money trumps codes any day...its a good reason theyre called "codes"... Most these codes really mean to keep minorities out and tax ridden as possible while keeping whites rich and protected so to speak....code in long island would change as long as you have money and the demographics dont change

Manhattan doesn't have as many restrictions on constructing large buildings, most areas in Long Island do have them as most Long Islanders presumably want Long Island to stay suburban

 

[newworldafro]

:http://www.nytimes.com/2014/01/14/nyregion/train-service-could-wake-up-sleepy-co-op-city.html?_r=0

"It is a safe, leafy place where a three-bedroom co-op costs $27,000 to buy and less than $1,500 a month in maintenance fees"

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Does this mean the green spaces in between current public housing buildings will be construction sites for market rate units .. ...... can't even enjoy what greenery is available huh..Google Map "Wyckoff Gardens" and try and figure out how they going fit another building in there...

 

[bambinokino]

Manhattan doesn't have as many restrictions on constructing large buildings, most areas in Long Island do have them as most Long Islanders presumably want Long Island to stay suburban

Well in Manhattan, money is code....what's the point of having no restrictions on building if you can't afford to build there in the first place

 

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"It is a safe, leafy place where a three-bedroom co-op costs $27,000 to buy and less than $1,500 a month in maintenance fees"




Does this mean the green spaces in between current public housing buildings will be construction sites for market rate units .. ...... can't even enjoy what greenery is available huh..Google Map "Wyckoff Gardens" and try and figure out how they going fit another building in there...

The Parking Lots

Plans call for more buildings at Wyckoff Gardens, located in Brooklyn’s fashionable Boerum Hill neighborhood, just south of the Barclays Center. Wyckoff Gardens is made up of three, white-gray 21-story buildings with 527 units and 1,173 residents. The buildings sit on a 5.81-acre tract bordered on the north and east by Wyckoff Street and Third Avenue, and on the south and west by Baltic and Nevins streets.

The towers take up just 12.3 percent of the property, leaving 5.1 acres, or the equivalent of seven football fields of underused space, NYCHA officials said. The city estimates Wyckoff Gardens will need roughly $45 million worth of capital repairs over the next five years.

Plans at Wyckoff Gardens call for construction of an as-yet undetermined number of mixed-income buildings. The new housing would create between 550 and 650 units, roughly 225 to 325 of which would be affordable.

 

[360dagod]

"It is a safe, leafy place where a three-bedroom co-op costs $27,000 to buy and less than $1,500 a month in maintenance fees"




Does this mean the green spaces in between current public housing buildings will be construction sites for market rate units .. ...... can't even enjoy what greenery is available huh..Google Map "Wyckoff Gardens" and try and figure out how they going fit another building in there...

its already happening

 

[360dagod]

Cacs jogging down Jerome ave in the hood with no worries

 

[J-Nice]

I wish I was an adult in NYC in the 90's when property was cheap and affordable to buy. I don't think alot of people foresaw what was happening back then. My fam sure didn't. It's crazy how my fam who own their Brownstones in BK get hit up daily for offers to sell.

 

[AB Ziggy]

Cacs jogging down Jerome ave in the hood with no worries

Already? Please tell me they're only by the Yankee Stadium.


If these cacs reach Tremont or Burnside

 

[Colicat]

I just saw an article on fb that showcased an ad for a two bedroom apt on Hancock for 2600... Ridiculous

 

[Cave Savage]

I think there have always been a small amount of white people in The Bronx, and I'm not just talking about Riverdale

I remember seeing some blue collar looking white people here and there

And Albanians have been in The Bronx for a while too

 

[AB Ziggy]

I think there have always been a small amount of white people in The Bronx, and I'm not just talking about Riverdale

I remember seeing some blue collar looking white people here and there

Bronx always had white people outside of Riverdale.

Go to East Bronx, Pelham Parkway , and even up by Gun Hill to a small extent. White people were always in those areas. And not transplants or hipsters either.

 

[J-Nice]

I just saw an article on fb that showcased an ad for a two bedroom apt on Hancock for 2600... Ridiculous

You moved to NYC?

 

[Colicat]

You moved to NYC?

No

 

[360dagod]

Already? Please tell me they're only by the Yankee Stadium.


If these cacs reach Tremont or Burnside

Breh..We talking past Kingsbridge..

Cac hit the G concourse with headphones on with no concern..just joggin