My NYC Black Folk......Gentrification

[yoyoyo1]

I don't wanna live anywhere else though

 

[Wild self]

I don't wanna live anywhere else though

Well, you gonna be living on the streets soon. NYC is gonna be 100% Disneyland in the next 10 years.

 

[BigMan]

Well, you gonna be living on the streets soon. NYC is gonna be 100% Disneyland in the next 10 years.

you exaggerate. you forget NYC is five boroughs

 

[mahnameizray]

WALKED ON THE GRAND CONCOURSE TODAY.

THINGS WENT FROM THE HOOD TO NOT HOOD IN A MATTER OF A BLOCK

HAD A NICCA LIKE

 

[Wild self]

you exaggerate. you forget NYC is five boroughs

You think that gentrification isn't gonna happen to all 5 of them by then? Face it, either an area is gonna get gentrified or its gonna be dangerous pretty soon. You gonna have to move to Jersey or the south if this keeps up.

 

[tremonthustler1]

You think that gentrification isn't gonna happen to all 5 of them by then? Face it, either an area is gonna get gentrified or its gonna be dangerous pretty soon. You gonna have to move to Jersey or the south if this keeps up.

It can't. It literally can't. They can try but it can't. There has to be something to gentrify. Nobody's trying to gentrify the Cross Bronx Expressway area.

 

[Wild self]

It can't. It literally can't. They can try but it can't. There has to be something to gentrify. Nobody's trying to gentrify the Cross Bronx Expressway area.

NYC during the Ed Koch administration was on the verge of bankruptcy. To see the likes of BK and Queens getting gentrified during the crack epidemic to now is still in my eyes. When the Hipsters run out of room in Manhattan and in BK, they will come to the BX.

 

[mahnameizray]

PLUS THE 4 AND THE D TRAIN MAKES FOR A REALLY EASY RIDE TO MANHATTAN. THE YANKEE STADIUM AREA USED TO BE UP THERE BACK IN THE DAY THEY'RE TRYING TO RESTORE THE FEELING WHICH DOESN'T BODE WELL FOR THE PEOPLE WHO LIVE THERE NOW, UNLESS THEY DON'T RAISE RENT. LETS HOPE SO.

 

[tremonthustler1]

NYC during the Ed Koch administration was on the verge of bankruptcy. To see the likes of BK and Queens getting gentrified during the crack epidemic to now is still in my eyes. When the Hipsters run out of room in Manhattan and in BK, they will come to the BX.

Where though? Gentrification is directly linked to being able to jack up property values. Other than nearby those waterfronts by the East River (which to be honest, only gives you sparkling views of the projects), there's no worth in building there financially.

Robert Moses unintentionally ruined it for hipsters and developers today. If hipsters move into the area, they're not changing the area. They're simply moving into the hood, and that won't last long.

PLUS THE 4 AND THE D TRAIN MAKES FOR A REALLY EASY RIDE TO MANHATTAN. THE YANKEE STADIUM AREA USED TO BE UP THERE BACK IN THE DAY THEY'RE TRYING TO RESTORE THE FEELING WHICH DOESN'T BODE WELL FOR THE PEOPLE WHO LIVE THERE NOW, UNLESS THEY DON'T RAISE RENT. LETS HOPE SO.

It's always been an easy ride to Manhattan. You just don't wanna be on those trains at night locally. Other than the new Stadium, not a lot has changed about that immediate area. I used to go to HS around there. Grand Concourse looks nice as fukk. The Concourse Plaza by the Supreme Court spot is still ratchet as fukk. I went there for jury duty last fall. That place looks exactly the same as it did when I was a kid going there for movies, from the smell to the paint.

I wanted to fukk around and catch a movie while I was waiting but I had to serve my time.

 

[ogc163]

Where though? Gentrification is directly linked to being able to jack up property values. Other than nearby those waterfronts by the East River (which to be honest, only gives you sparkling views of the projects), there's no worth in building there financially.

Robert Moses unintentionally ruined it for hipsters and developers today. If hipsters move into the area, they're not changing the area. They're simply moving into the hood, and that won't last long.

Yeah but it seems as though hipsters don't give a fukk about living around ghetto ass folks...as long as they have enough of their own people.
I doubt it will happen, but it isn't far fetched to think it could happen to the BX.

 

[The Nigerian]

What good is an opportunity if it puts you on a path where you can't

- buy property
- send your kids to a good school
- save for retirement

The average family in NYC is pretty much guaranteed to rent + work all their life, and then live off of Social Security and maybe a small pension if they are lucky

Meanwhile you can go down South, get a 30-40K job, buy a house, send your kids to a good school and save for retirement. It won't be glamorous, you won't drive a Lexus or have a $100/mo Iphone, but guess what... making 40K up here, you won't have any of that shyt anyway, AND you will have a shyttier quality of life AND be living in poverty in your old age.

And yea NYCRebel's wife makes good money as an engineer and he works in finance. They could have easily bought a brownstone and made good on dude's proclamations of BK loyalty/solidarity, from what he says, and yet he left This dude is telling people who can/can't come to BK via sattelite

That mediocre loser life.

 

[TLR Is Mental Poison]

That mediocre loser life.

I refuse to go back and forth with a dude who's thinking about nikkas he feels are beneath him before the sun is up.... or begs for moderators on a message board to force people to be his friends...

 

[The Nigerian]

You're really reaching for insults, breh.

 

[Tommy Fits]

Where though? Gentrification is directly linked to being able to jack up property values. Other than nearby those waterfronts by the East River (which to be honest, only gives you sparkling views of the projects), there's no worth in building there financially.

Robert Moses unintentionally ruined it for hipsters and developers today. If hipsters move into the area, they're not changing the area. They're simply moving into the hood, and that won't last long.



It's always been an easy ride to Manhattan. You just don't wanna be on those trains at night locally. Other than the new Stadium, not a lot has changed about that immediate area. I used to go to HS around there. Grand Concourse looks nice as fukk. The Concourse Plaza by the Supreme Court spot is still ratchet as fukk. I went there for jury duty last fall. That place looks exactly the same as it did when I was a kid going there for movies, from the smell to the paint.

I wanted to fukk around and catch a movie while I was waiting but I had to serve my time.

It's not the views it's the easy access to the City. The only areas that won't go through gentrification are areas with poor to no Subway access. Like in Queens for example, pretty much everything east of the Van Wyck won't see much change but pretty much everything West is fair game. It has already started in LIC and Astoria and has already started working it's way down through Woodside, Sunnyside, and Jackson Heights. I know you bring up the crime in the South Bronx and how the hipsters will run but the thing is what happens when the Hipsters swarm the neighborhood and start to tilt the demographics. It's inevitable as much as you want to fight it. There is only so much room and affordable (by trust fund babies standards) housing in the city.

 

[BigMan]

You think that gentrification isn't gonna happen to all 5 of them by then? Face it, either an area is gonna get gentrified or its gonna be dangerous pretty soon. You gonna have to move to Jersey or the south if this keeps up.

eastern Queens, most of Staten Island, parts of the Bronx, eastern Brooklyn i just don't see it. Im already in NJ, where gentrification is also occuring