My NYC Black Folk......Gentrification
- Thread starter Lewis Black
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I should have skiples work and went to the protest.
Brooklyn is still going to hang in there. But I don't know about Harlem.
Central Harlem still mostly black for now. But I'm already seeing plenty of cacs and Asians walking by.
BK got more black property owners so it'll hang on longer.
Yes we will. However many black propety owners rent to cacs. So it makes the numbers of cacs larger but they don't own shyt.
Frangala
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Not a native New Yorker but who are moving into these neighborhoods and pricing out the long time residents. I keep hearing different theories. People are saying it's white people from middle America and then one girl I met at this one party says that a lot of young professionals who went to elite schools around the country are starting/have their careers in NYC and can afford the cost of living. Most of the white people I have seen in BK are hipster, coffee boy types on bikes and don't strike me as finance professionals.
What I find is funny is most of the people moving into Brooklyn from west bubble tucky wouldnt even think of even venturing into Brooklyn period if it was any year before 2006. I think what chet who starred in the real world Brooklyn TV show from 2009 said sums it all up perfectly. Basically, someone like him from middle or upper class suburbia out in Utah would NEVER venture into Brooklyn because he was scared that he might get shot. I'll let you figure out why he would think that. My theory is if you didn't have the balls to go into Brooklyn before 2006 for anything then you pretty much should stay your ass in the tourist attractions. I think gentrification is just ignorance and business. The same fools moving into the very same areas where black and brown people would frequent in Brooklyn would freak out if those same black and brown people in Brooklyn moved into their suburb. They would be on some 
shyt. Unbelievable.
shyt. Unbelievable.
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ogc163
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A combination of folks. Middle class white kids who can have their parents pay for their bills, young white professionals who make enough income to cover the costs, and in Harlem you have some Black middle class kids who also have their parents paying most/half of their bills. There are ALOT of Buppie transplants in Harlem. You go to some of these Buppie/Blipster events in Harlem and you'll find that most of them folks are not from NYC or even the tri-state area.
They all need to leave
ogc163
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Frangala
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How do you do that if they want to stay?
Do what?
Frangala
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Make them leave if they want to stay since they all need to leave