Harlem done yet?
My NYC Black Folk......Gentrification
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Francis White
i been away to long, my feeling died.
You know this thread is over 4 years old and you too fukking stupid to read thru to answer your own question. Are you expecting a different answer from what simple research would tell you?
You’re the stupid one responding to my post with this emotional response.
Hell i look like reading through 4 yrs of post
Francis White
i been away to long, my feeling died.
You the dumb fukk. So much excellent information in this thread you choose to ignore by asking a stupid question. Why you even asking about Harlem? You not moving there or going to contribute a thing to this thread. Then like someone with a low intelligence level you post similes to try to compensate.You’re the stupid one responding to my post with this emotional response.
Hell i look like reading through 4 yrs of post
You still at it Lucy?
Only an idiot would engage in something they deem idiotic.
My question was so “dumb” yet you respond with nonsense derailing the thread.
Yeah that makes sense.
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What’s Next for Majora Carter’s ‘Self-Gentrification’ Hub in the South Bronx?
Damn folk's are no longer falling for the hustle.
Damn folk's are no longer falling for the hustle.
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Cotdamn. That park is fiyah. Massive.
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Developers spent $200K lobbying for Inwood rezoning
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The recently approved rezoning proposal is a win for developers
By Ameena Walker Aug 20, 2018, 1:00pm EDTSHARE
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Earlier this month, Mayor de Blasio’s contested plan to rezone parts of Inwood to allow for 5,000 new apartments, received approval from City Council and it’s now awaiting the mayor to sign it into law. While many Inwood residents continue to oppose the rezoning in fear of gentrification and displacement, the recent approval is a win for developers.
According to the Wall Street Journal, housing developers spent tens of thousands of dollars lobbying the city’s Economic Development Corporation (NYCEDC) and City Councilman Ydanis Rodriguez to get the rezoning passed. Lobbying records show that Taconic Investment Partners, who is set to create at least 550 units of affordable housing at 410 West 207th Street, where a Pathmark supermarket once stood in Inwood, spent at least $85,000 in 2017 pushing to get the rezoning passed and another $45,000 in 2018.
Taconic Investment Partners weren’t the only ones pushing for the rezoning. Per the WSJ, Jorge Madruga of Madd Equities spent $30,000 this year lobbying city and elected officials to approve the rezoning, while the company spent more than $90,000 in 2017 to have Inwood, along with areas in Brooklyn and Manhattan rezoned. Madruga has been developing low-income housing since the 1990s, however, in 1998 he plead guilty to fraud charges related to a Medicare scheme in Florida and was sentenced to 18 months in prison and 10 years probation. A rep for Madruga told Curbed that Madruga never actually served any jail time since his sentence was reduced and a judge determined that “restitution was the more appropriate solution,” while also reducing probation to six years.
Nevertheless, some say the lobbying is needed to get these things moving and that the city needs developers to build new housing so it’s a give-and-take relationship. “The city can’t do it all,” said longtime developer a board member for the Mayor’s Fund to Advance New York City in a statement to the WSJ. “They depend on developers to actually build the real estate. Real estate firms aren’t charities and need to make some profit.”
Though he ultimately voted in favor of the Inwood rezoning, City Council member Francisco Moya of Queens has called for a task force to address community concerns about how the rezoning will affect residents of the neighborhood. In a, Moya states that the De Blasio administration has pitted organized labor against low- and middle-class New Yorkers while “propping up a system that enriches developers.”
Editor’s Note: A previous version of this article stated that Jorge Madruga spent 18 months in prison fraud-related charges. Curbed received information regarding that sentence and the article has been updated to reflect those changes.
Parts of Western Queens (besides LIC) have done a really good job fighting the rezoning and having people show up to CB meetings putting their feet down. From Sunnyside out to Jackson Heights there has been so much proposed development that's gotten shut down. The big one is Sunnyside Yards..basically like a Hudson Yards in Queens built over the existing LIRR tracks and huge Amtrak yard. They wanna build a whole new neighborhood over it, and the people in Sunnyside are going ape shyt. I think those areas in Queens, despite being so damn close to the city (depending on where in SunnySide you can get to Grand Central in less than 15 mins) are going to be slow to gentrify only because there is still a big working class contingent there, and a large selection of them are single family home owners and co-op owners who want to preserve what they have. Everyone saw what happened in LIC and said "not here"...
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