My NYC Black Folk......Gentrification

[semtex]

 

[Jone2three45]

 

[Ego Noir]

If your neighborhood got citibike stations you know you made it

 

[88m3]

Is it me or does brooklyn just seem like its only black and white people. hardly any middle ground.

there are some hispanic and asian areas

 

[Vagina Thief]

I seen them coming into the hoods like "resistance is futile"....

 

[yoyoyo1]

I just spent a whole weekend in Williamsburg. Shins concert, eating at their best restaurants(for the love of god eat at a restaurant called Aurora) etc. I gotta say Williamsburg>>>any NYC neighborhood.

The sad thing was that I was the only minority(outside the Asians) In those restaurants. Rarely did I see a hispanic or black person eating in those restaurants or walking outside. WTF is going on? Do NYC hispanics and blacks not enjoy the good life? Hipsters are pretty harmless and welcoming. Hispanics and blacks are just close minded or think about race too much(feel out of place?). They can't all be broke. I'm certainly not rich.

were the shins good? cause i saw them in their prime and it was merely to me live even though i loved the band. did mercer's hissy fit actually accomplish something?

 

[radio rahiem]

They're getting off on Ralph Ave on the C train now!!!!

wait what?!

 

[tremonthustler1]

lol step up the $ game,,, scust at being mad that ppl dont want shytty hoods to remain shytty hoods and not upgrade it

That's NOT where the disconnect is

No one is saying they like their shytty conditions. What we're saying is, I'd rather deal with shytty conditions than no conditions at all.

 

[NYC Rebel]

I just spent a whole weekend in Williamsburg. Shins concert, eating at their best restaurants(for the love of god eat at a restaurant called Aurora) etc. I gotta say Williamsburg>>>any NYC neighborhood.

The sad thing was that I was the only minority(outside the Asians) In those restaurants. Rarely did I see a hispanic or black person eating in those restaurants or walking outside. WTF is going on? Do NYC hispanics and blacks not enjoy the good life? Hipsters are pretty harmless and welcoming. Hispanics and blacks are just close minded or think about race too much(feel out of place?). They can't all be broke. I'm certainly not rich.

Nah Gallo.

Problem with folks like you is that you feel goodness only exists being surrounded by white folks.

Despite what you and some of the Brooklyn newbies in here, focused on crime and hanging on the corner being the end all of our existence before y'all arrived is that we very well had a good life before y'all appeared. You really think everything good about Brooklyn happened with gentrification, as if those of us who lived prior to it were just sitting around twiddling out thumbs just waiting to be rescued by the gentrifiers.

I find nothing unique or special about those Williamsburg enclaves you're so happy to embrace that one could long ago find in Seattle, parts of the Bay area and emerging in DC and now New York.

Sure shyt wasn't all sweet growing up in old New York, but I certainly enjoyed opening my door and living the everyday life of my neighborhood that y'all later called hip hop. But we called it living every day.....and it was more unique, interesting, beautiful enough to mimicked world wide

 

[TLR Is Mental Poison]

Nah Gallo.

Problem with folks like you is that you feel goodness only exists being surrounded by white folks.

Despite what you and some of the Brooklyn newbies in here, focused on crime and hanging on the corner being the end all of our existence before y'all arrived is that we very well had a good life before y'all appeared. You really think everything good about Brooklyn happened with gentrification, as if those of us who lived prior to it were just sitting around twiddling out thumbs just waiting to be rescued by the gentrifiers.

Sure shyt wasn't all sweet, but I certainly enjoyed opening my door and livings everyday life of my neighborhood that y'all later called hip hop. We called it living every day.....and it was beautiful enough to me mimicked world wide

Did u quote the wrong post

Gallo said he wished there were more blacks and Latinos there

How could you possibly take that as "only seeing good in being surrounded by white folks"

 

[NYC Rebel]

Did u quote the wrong post

Gallo said he wished there were more blacks and Latinos there

How could you possibly take that as "only seeing good in being surrounded by white folks"

Nah. Some of you cant help but to make declerations of the "good life" starting with your presence in the newly cropped zip codes full of out of towners.

If you think the Williamsburg experience is on par to what took place in cities like DC and parts of Philadelphia, be my guest.

I've eaten and hung out in the same Willamsburg neighborhoods since its transformation. Attended a wedding in one of its new restaurants last summer. There's absolutely nothing new to me about any of these places @Gallo is embracing. Too each his own....but some of us had very good lives in our neighborhoods before they became gentrified.

 

[Medio]

queens, most diverse borough

 

[Gallo]

Nah Gallo.

Problem with folks like you is that you feel goodness only exists being surrounded by white folks.

Despite what you and some of the Brooklyn newbies in here, focused on crime and hanging on the corner being the end all of our existence before y'all arrived is that we very well had a good life before y'all appeared. You really think everything good about Brooklyn happened with gentrification, as if those of us who lived prior to it were just sitting around twiddling out thumbs just waiting to be rescued by the gentrifiers.

I find nothing unique or special about those Williamsburg enclaves you're so happy to embrace that one could long ago find in Seattle, parts of the Bay area and emerging in DC and now New York.

Sure shyt wasn't all sweet growing up in old New York, but I certainly enjoyed opening my door and living the everyday life of my neighborhood that y'all later called hip hop. But we called it living every day.....and it was more unique, interesting, beautiful enough to mimicked world wide

I definitely like being surrounded by white folks. However, it's a certain kind of white folks - the Williamsburg kind. Laid back, no worries, hakuna matata. Harmless and just want to enjoy bike rides, organic food and a careless free life. I can dig that. They know how to live.

I certainly don't want to be surrounded by Upper East Side insular types, Riverderdale snotties, Far rockway conservative cops/firefighter types, Staten Island Italian scumbags, Long Island privileged types etc.

I can go on and on about NYC white people I don't like. Williamsburg whites on the other hand, they don't make 'em any better - minus the fashion.

I could do better than be surrounded by black pre-gentrification Brooklyn types too. I'm good.

That being said, you're reading too much into my post(perhaps this proves my point that hispanic and blacks think about race too much, often in a negative, tribalist, me versus you context). Williamsburg is just beautiful - the scenery, the restaurants, the streets, the stores, rarely any cars/traffic. It's even prettier than SOHO imo.

Good to know other Williamsburg-type towns exist elsewhere though - like in Seattle/DC/Philly. Might have to check it out. Regardless, just give them their props for creating another such beautiful and vibrant neighborhood like the ones you mentioned existed before and admit its better than anything you lived in Brooklyn - it won't make you any less black I promise.

 

[Gallo]

Double

 

[NYC Rebel]

I definitely like being surrounded by white folks. However, it's a certain kind of white folks - the Williamsburg kind. Laid back, no worries, hakuna matata. Harmless and just want to enjoy bike rides, organic food and a careless free life. I can dig that. They know how to live.

I certainly don't want to be surround by Upper East Side insular types, Riverderdale snotties, Far rockway conservative cops/firefighter types, Staten Island Italian scumbags, Long Island privileged types etc.

I can go on and on about NYC white people I don't like. Williamsburg whites on the other hand - they don't make 'em any better.

I could do better than be surround by black pre-gentrification Brooklyn types too. I'm good.

That being said, you're reading too much into my post(perhaps this proves my point that hispanic and blacks think about race too much, often in a negative, tribalist, me versus you context). Williamsburg is just beautiful - the scenery, the restaurants, the streets, the stores, rarely any cars/traffic. It's even prettier than SOHO imo.

Good to know other Williamsburg-type towns exist elsewhere though - like in Seattle/DC/Philly. Might have to check it out. Regardless, just give them their props for creating another such beautiful and vibrant neighborhood like the ones you mentioned existed before - it doesn't make you any less black.

Bullshyt. It isn't about "giving them props" it's your clear dismissal of the beauty that came out of the uniqueness of the older neighborhoods. You rather obscure my point as a thinking of race too much in a discussion where YOU introduced race. Congrats...but your " preference" didn't create the beauty of three neighborhoods you dress up as Shangri-la in a box of gentrification.

Don't backpeddle on your initial point. There's nothing unique about these new enclaves you're casting like it comes with a set of 1853 issued freedom papers. Nothing distinct about each of them that i saw in their respective cities in the past. Enjoy eating at McDonalds that you call different because they're hundreds of miles apart.