My NYC Black Folk......Gentrification

[Captain Crunch]

studio rental at Lenox Avenue, Harlem, posted by Clinton Ukwuani on 02/27/2013 | Naked Apartments i have been dying to move to Manhattan, any Harlem cats know this area? Is it good? Can i catch a cab home to this spot. I saw another deal for 935 in the same area, can i live here without problems?

You'll be straight, cabs are easy to catch.

 

[newworldafro]

NYC Population Reaches All-Time Record High with More People Moving into NYC - SkyscraperCity

For the first time in more than 60 years, more people are moving to New York City than are moving out according to the latest U.S Census Bureau estimates that were released today. The estimates show NYC’s population has hit an all-time record high of 8,336,697 with a 2% increase since 2010.
Each of the five boroughs had gains in population with the largest occurring in Brooklyn. New York City’s increase since April 2010 represented 84% of the total population increase in New York State.

The city’s population has grown by more than 300,000 since Mayor Bloomberg took office. The MTA also announced that subway annual ridership for 2012 was 1.654 billion, the highest in 62 years.There are many indicators of quality of life in the City including record low crime, record high tourism, life expectancy, graduation rates, job growth and now record high population.

The Bronx is blooming, Brooklyn is hotter than ever and New York City continues to dominate New York State. That's the basic takeaway from new census data released today. Oh, and also? As Mayor Bloomberg pointed out this morning: "For the first time since 1950, more people are coming to New York City than leaving."

So let's just jump into the stats, shall we? According to the latest figures the city's population last July was 8,336,697, up 161,564 since 2010, which means the Big Apple now accounts for 42.6 percent of New York State's population. Oh did we mention that that population surge was about as much as the city gained over the aughts?

And the good news goes on! Brooklyn, the city's most populous borough, grew 2.4 percent to a population of 2,565,635 (nearly the population of Chicago!). Meanwhile Manhattan grew 2.1 percent to 1,619,090, Queens grew 1.9 percent to 2,272,771 and the Bronx grew 1.7 percent to 1,408,473. The only borough to see a decline was Staten Island, which lost .4 percent of its population and landed at 470,728.

While there are lots of things to celebrate in this new data dump (our 123,000 new foreign immigrants are more than LA and Miami got—combined) but arguably the most interesting is the rise in the oft-neglected Bronx. Especially as it isn't just the population that is growing in the mainland borough. A report earlier this week also found that the Bronx had the fastest growth in new business incorporations between 1991 and 2011, jumping 305 percent. Oh, and crime there keeps dropping. Put those stats together and we're heading into nearly uncharted territory. Or, as Joseph Salvo, director of the population division of the city’s Planning Department, put it to the Times: "You’ve got to go back to the postwar period in the 1940s when we had a surge of people moving into the Bronx."

 

[TLR Is Mental Poison]

Lot of jobs here for sure. I would bet the avg amount of time people stay is dropping though. More churn.

 

[88m3]

Went to some open houses over the weekend.


Can't believe I might move out of the projects. Still going to hold onto my apartments an sublet them till Ratner comes in and has to buy me out.

@She Agree That I'm Looney

 

[TLR Is Mental Poison]

Went to some open houses over the weekend.


Can't believe I might move out of the projects. Still going to hold onto my apartments an sublet them till Ratner comes in and has to buy me out.

@She Agree That I'm Looney

@ you living in the damn projects.

 

[bouncy]

NYC Population Reaches All-Time Record High with More People Moving into NYC - SkyscraperCity

The sad thing about this is most of these newcomers are foreigners, who will have a hard time being that they are starting off fresh. There are TOO many people in that small land. I'm from there, so it was normal for me, UNTIL I left, and realized I can live a better life, have more freedom, and still go back home when I want, just by moving to another area close to nyc.

I can't hate on the real estate hustlers because they are good marketers to get people to believe they can live the life in NY, and get people to pay for the apartments or homes at a ridiculous price, but it's a half truth. In the end, if you don't use NYC for your benefit, and then leave, there is a good chance you will be stuck in financial pain for a long time. Or you just will live a mediocre life. It's really about what you really want out of life. Some people just love to say they live in NYC, but a lot of times they say that because they can't leave or they are scared to.

I think in the next few years NYC is going to go through a lot of hard times, and it's going to be an EXTREME case of the rich being separated from the "poor" or who are now the middle class, because living in NYC will have a middle class income lifestyle look like a poor one in other places in the country.

 

[dallastexas]

lol at thinking just because a bunch of colored ppl lived there that it cant be bought out and made better,, fuk u for thinking you can live in squaller and not be upgraded... get a fukin life

 

[Wild self]

The sad thing about this is most of these newcomers are foreigners, who will have a hard time being that they are starting off fresh. There are TOO many people in that small land. I'm from there, so it was normal for me, UNTIL I left, and realized I can live a better life, have more freedom, and still go back home when I want, just by moving to another area close to nyc.

I can't hate on the real estate hustlers because they are good marketers to get people to believe they can live the life in NY, and get people to pay for the apartments or homes at a ridiculous price, but it's a half truth. In the end, if you don't use NYC for your benefit, and then leave, there is a good chance you will be stuck in financial pain for a long time. Or you just will live a mediocre life. It's really about what you really want out of life. Some people just love to say they live in NYC, but a lot of times they say that because they can't leave or they are scared to.

I think in the next few years NYC is going to go through a lot of hard times, and it's going to be an EXTREME case of the rich being separated from the "poor" or who are now the middle class, because living in NYC will have a middle class income lifestyle look like a poor one in other places in the country.

get out of that rat race, like you said. I know plenty of people that moved outta NYC that are thriving in other areas, and they said that the only regret is they should have done so years prior.

 

[88m3]

get out of that rat race, like you said. I know plenty of people that moved outta NYC that are thriving in other areas, and they said that the only regret is they should have done so years prior.

Spare us your personal anecdotes

 

[Wild self]

Spare us your personal anecdotes

What suits your taste is what it is. Don't be that people move outta NYC and live better lives.

 

[88m3]

What suits your taste is what it is. Don't be that people move outta NYC and live better lives.

I've spent half my life living other places.


NYC is where its at if you live in America

 

[Wild self]

I've spent half my life living other places.


NYC is where its at if you live in America

That's your opinion and everyone is OK with that. If you balling out at multimillionaire status living in Midtown Manhattan, more power to you.

 

[88m3]

That's your opinion and everyone is OK with that. If you balling out at multimillionaire status living in Midtown Manhattan, more power to you.

I'm not OK with people leaving.
I'm not OK with people moving south.

 

[Wild self]

I'm not OK with people leaving.
I'm not OK with people moving south.

So everyone should be balling like you with multimillion dollar deals and eating caviar at a fancy restaurant in Midtown Manhattan? Got it.

LOL @ your fascist rant. Tryna control people on some 3rd world dictator type shyt. Your hatred for the south rivals Lucifer's hated for God.

 

[Liquid]

I've spent half my life living other places.


NYC is where its at if you live in America

it isn't if you are interested in those southern pawgs