My NYC Black Folk......Gentrification
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ogc163
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http://www.nytimes.com/2006/01/15/r...d=1&adxnnlx=1370722246-uBLHR9YYNDD+4GHnK5xa/Q
Yeah they been talking that SOBRO shyt for awhile now
Yeah they been talking that SOBRO shyt for awhile now
ogc163
Superstar
Yo mods can we put some coli bets on these gentrification stances...I'm trying to get my money up
ogc163
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Captain Crunch
Veteran
They're trying to right now, ask anyone that works for Housing, and they'll tell you. It's not going to be outright gone in 20 years, but you'll start to see PJ's getting torn down in the next ten years.
NYCHA facilities coming down is the x factor. They have already started playing with "mixed use" "public/private partnership" facilities. Everything has a price and NYC RE developers are one of the few groups in the world w/the means to pay what it would take to buy NYCHA from the city. Esp if Quinn wins and Bloomberg continues pulling the strings. Lawsuits, payoffs, everything. I could definitely see it happening, but I wouldn't say its a sure thing.
ogc163
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If that happens 
If negro's think what they seeing in Brooklyn is crazy, if they privatized East Harlem the gentrification would be so swift and rapid. But until I see PJ's come down completely my reaction to gentrification in the South Bronx will continue to be
shyt gotta look like this for me to be convinced...
[ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3GGfFXVlpq0][Gentrification Movie] TheAtlantaWay: The Introduction (facebook.com/theatlantaway) - YouTube[/ame]
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tremonthustler1
aka bx_representer
If the Bronx didn't get gentrified when we were burning our own buildings up for profit, it's not gonna happen later.
High Bridge had a soft open. All I'll say about that bridge is that they better make those gates high. Otherwise, being thrown in the bushes will be welcome compared to where you'll get thrown off of.
As for the smaller 3 family homes, look at Claremont Pkwy /170th. Rows of small ass houses. Bet you'd wanna get the hell outta there at 11:00 at night. The tenement buildings that still rule everywhere hover over everything.
Jackson Ave? Where the stop is completely surrounded by the St. Mary's Projects and the prison?
ogc163
Superstar
I was deadass like
when I read that...like he DEADASS gonna ignore that big ass prison that's on the opposite side
tremonthustler1
aka bx_representer
Sadly the Bronx is meaningless when it comes to actual voting. If Quinn's rocking with Bloomberg money, we'll lose. Quinn though will be perceived as a soft dyke that can't lay the law down when shyt gets ratchet, so crime may go up on her watch just to keep people away.
Look at Kingsbridge /University Heights. If gentrification reflected that neighborhood, no one would mind. Lots of Greeks, Irish people, nice churches, high schools, synagogues, eateries, but also LOTS of Dominicans, PR, African-American, the projects are still there but behind they got new mixed income housing right by Riverdale which for my money is the nicest area in the city. I don't walk around shook at 3:00am out here. I don't think I'll ever feel the same way walking through a neighborhood in the South Bronx. That aura is hard to get rid of.
tremonthustler1
aka bx_representer
quote from that loft living article
Geographically, to change the Bronx to an area that can be gentrified, you'd have to physically remodel the clusterfukk that is the grid system here. At least in Harlem, it follows Manhattan grid, everything is pretty much where it needs to be. As I've said countless times, Robert Moses made that impossible with the Cross Bronx Expressway.
Even the people that live in the nice areas of the Bronx don't want gentrification. They like the idea of their nice neighborhoods being their little secret (out by Throgs Neck, after the 6 train bordering Queens)
Geographically, to change the Bronx to an area that can be gentrified, you'd have to physically remodel the clusterfukk that is the grid system here. At least in Harlem, it follows Manhattan grid, everything is pretty much where it needs to be. As I've said countless times, Robert Moses made that impossible with the Cross Bronx Expressway.
Even the people that live in the nice areas of the Bronx don't want gentrification. They like the idea of their nice neighborhoods being their little secret (out by Throgs Neck, after the 6 train bordering Queens)
Those parts have to be nice by default tho, u need money to have a car and a piece of land big enough to park it
U go out past the trains, home ownership shoots up which brings up quality of life. U cant be broke and have a car in NYC no way.
Whats wrong with the CBE? Isnt it hood on both sides? Plus theres plenty of neighborhoods cut in half by big highways. The Belt cut through my neighborhood growing up.
U go out past the trains, home ownership shoots up which brings up quality of life. U cant be broke and have a car in NYC no way.
Whats wrong with the CBE? Isnt it hood on both sides? Plus theres plenty of neighborhoods cut in half by big highways. The Belt cut through my neighborhood growing up.
ogc163
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Laugh all yall want, once upon a time there was a place called 'the docks' and nobody went there unless you was dropping packs or chopping up bodies.
Today its called DUMBO Brooklyn. Where the real estate there is worth more per square foot than any place in Manhattan not named Midtown/Park Ave.
If you got money and a decade worth of patience. Hoard property in the South Bronx.
Today its called DUMBO Brooklyn. Where the real estate there is worth more per square foot than any place in Manhattan not named Midtown/Park Ave.
If you got money and a decade worth of patience. Hoard property in the South Bronx.