My NYC Black Folk......Gentrification

[tremonthustler1]

I don't see why people aren't understanding this. Too many people clinging to the hood forgetting that the hood fukking sucks. Sure its got character, but people aren't supposed to live like that. In constant fear of the Jakes, other nikkas who all emotional and ready to shoot. Piss poor schools and living conditions, no access to resources and simple amenities such as proper food and safe parks.

How is living like that a good thing?

The hood sucks, but gentrification is like having someone come to your house and fix the leaky faucet, the hole in your ceiling, the shytty paint job, getting an exterminator to kill those rats and roaches, and even fixing the insulation for those cold winter nights only to charge your ass 5x what it was worth to still live there once that person's done fixing everything. Once you can't, you're forced to move and some white family comes in, so therefore everything they fixed in your home you couldn't even stick around to enjoy. For that, I might as well keep my home and deal with the shyt in it the way I have my entire life.

Fixing the problem isn't the issue. It's knowing that the problem won't be fixed for your benefit that makes people cling to the crap they have as opposed to the good things they won't have.

 

[TLR Is Mental Poison]

45% occupancy? That would be a no. that

Thats just people w/leases + contracts. Make no mistake, nikkas will be in ya building :biggapls:

 

[tremonthustler1]

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/01/23/nyregion/new-york-archdiocese-to-close-24-schools.html

7 schools in my borough getting closed

This is tough to deal with. One of those schools is one that I got close family going to. They can't afford the Catholic school education anymore so they have to go the public school route.

Give it a few more years you may not have Catholic schools in NYC

 

[Azul]

Thats just people w/leases + contracts. Make no mistake, nikkas will be in ya building :biggapls:

Thats what I meant my bad...45% ownership? 55%

 

[ogc163]

Thats just people w/leases + contracts. Make no mistake, nikkas will be in ya building :biggapls:

My parents went to go see the apartment at the open house a few weeks ago, they said the place is small but nice inside. But they also commented on some of the other folks who attended the open house

 

[Wild self]

Down South? ain't nothing down here yo, they moving to nothing when they come down here for real. We certainly don't have the building to house them. And the South is run by Republicans so they sure aren't about to build anymore low income housing.

I'm talking about states like Georgia and Texas where current population trends will make them swing states in 2016. They have massive employment opportunities for black folk. In another 10 years the populated southern states will be the prime spot, especially when NYC become too gentrified to live in for black folk

 

[88m3]

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/01/23/nyregion/new-york-archdiocese-to-close-24-schools.html

7 schools in my borough getting closed

This is tough to deal with. One of those schools is one that I got close family going to. They can't afford the Catholic school education anymore so they have to go the public school route.

Give it a few more years you may not have Catholic schools in NYC

sad I went to catholic school for a few years and got a good education mine weren't listed.


I'm thinking about trying to find an apartment to ren in spanish harlem or maybe the bronx in the next few months. I really don't know the bronx or if there's anything to do out there though. Need to be closer to the fdr and in 1200mo or less range.

 

[TLR Is Mental Poison]

sad I went to catholic school for a few years and got a good education mine weren't listed.


I'm thinking about trying to find an apartment to ren in spanish harlem or maybe the bronx in the next few months. I really don't know the bronx or if there's anything to do out there though. Need to be closer to the fdr and in 1200mo or less range.

Bruh you can prob get a 2 BR for that much depending on how much you are willing to put up with. Dont you live in Albany Houses though

 

[TLR Is Mental Poison]

My parents went to go see the apartment at the open house a few weeks ago, they said the place is small but nice inside. But they also commented on some of the other folks who attended the open house

No but for real. I feel like certain RE project should be deemed criminal. Have your crib looking like Mad Real World. "GET ME OUTTAA HEERRRRREEEE "

 

[88m3]

Bruh you can prob get a 2 BR for that much depending on how much you are willing to put up with. Dont you live in Albany Houses though

Yeah I'm trying to find something low cost 1 bedroom or a studio would be cool even.

haha I like my spot in brooklyn but I'm basically paying a mortgage and maintenance fees right now...

I'm really trying to bite the bullet no pun intended and just buy a place

 

[ogc163]

No but for real. I feel like certain RE project should be deemed criminal. Have your crib looking like Mad Real World. "GET ME OUTTAA HEERRRRREEEE "

Yeah but on another note, have you seen some of the income requirements/limits for some of these subsidized spots? http://www.nyc.gov/html/hpd/downloads/pdf/26-street-chelsea-manhattan.pdf

 

[NYC Rebel]

The "HIPSTERS ARE WELCOME" real estate sign leading into my old neighborhood.

How obvious....

 

[TLR Is Mental Poison]

Yeah but on another note, have you seen some of the income requirements/limits for some of these subsidized spots? http://www.nyc.gov/html/hpd/downloads/pdf/26-street-chelsea-manhattan.pdf

I got family making dough in that income range.... and thats right by my job... and they have other residences... we mite have to get focused

The "HIPSTERS ARE WELCOME" real estate sign leading into my old neighborhood.

How obvious....

Myspace is the fukking devil dude... totally demonic

There is still a respectably sized contingent of black owners who are holding down the fort though.

But on the flip side, I was one of those hipsters, only reason I moved there was because it was what I could afford.

 

[ogc163]

Yeah I'm trying to find something low cost 1 bedroom or a studio would be cool even.

haha I like my spot in brooklyn but I'm basically paying a mortgage and maintenance fees right now...

I'm really trying to bite the bullet no pun intended and just buy a place

Here in the BX, I never heard anything bad about Fordham Hill Apartments

9 Fordham Hill Oval Unit 3E Bronx NY | Douglas Elliman

 

[Liquid]

The hood sucks, but gentrification is like having someone come to your house and fix the leaky faucet, the hole in your ceiling, the shytty paint job, getting an exterminator to kill those rats and roaches, and even fixing the insulation for those cold winter nights only to charge your ass 5x what it was worth to still live there once that person's done fixing everything. Once you can't, you're forced to move and some white family comes in, so therefore everything they fixed in your home you couldn't even stick around to enjoy. For that, I might as well keep my home and deal with the shyt in it the way I have my entire life.

Fixing the problem isn't the issue. It's knowing that the problem won't be fixed for your benefit that makes people cling to the crap they have as opposed to the good things they won't have.

Yeah, I think a whole lot of people who do not go through it first hand have no clue why it bothers us. There is this hotspot near new york-presbyterian hospital from around 165th street (by the Wendy's) to about 175th street (Broadway-Fort Washington) where you can just see how the tide is slowly turning toward attracting hipsters more than anything else. There is this new building being built on 173rd street and Wadsworth Avenue and I have been curious to see how the pricing in there will be.

The newly open apartments in the building my mom lives in now puts in stainless steel appliances, fixes the cabinets, and charges about 2K for people to move in...who do you think they are targeting at this point? Got an apartment in the building already and need a replacement? Dog you are getting a white USED fridge and an old white stove/oven to work with. My mom JUST needed her fridge replaced and was replaced with another old white fridge because "its what she had already"