Can Gentrification be Flipped?

[chkmeout]

Which neighborhoods? Bed Stuy wasnt decaying when whites came in. H
Bed Stuy was going through urban renewal between 1985 to 9/11 and the the cacs started coming after 04ish.


Were cacs already coming into bed stuy after 95?

wtf is an urban renewal

 

[UberEatsDriver]

Williamsburg was a bad neighborhood, and some parts of Bushwick. Also Red Hook

Red hook is a confusing neighborhood to me. Was the whole area black or just the projects? Like those row homes you are around there. Black owner once upon or time or were they fukked up like bushwick and Williamsburg?


It’s hard to get old pictures of Brookyn

 

[UberEatsDriver]

This Pandemic already ran a lot of wealthy people away from big cities.....

In that case black folks have no excuse. Round two of opportunities that we missed in the 70s through 90s

 

[☑︎#VoteDemocrat]

The whole "buy back the block" movement is supposed to do just that

 

[UpAndComing]

Red hook is a confusing neighborhood to me. Was the whole area black or just the projects? Like those row homes you are around there. Black owner once upon or time or were they fukked up like bushwick and Williamsburg?


It’s hard to get old pictures of Brookyn

You are right its confusing. Back in HS I had a friend that lived there for a couple years and I used to visit him alot. Like one part is a black area, then it magically turns into a white neighborhood
For a job I did I was in Red Hook almost everyday to go to this supply store there. Didn't even realize I was in Red Hook until I used Google Maps. You literally have no idea where it begins or ends

 

[UberEatsDriver]

You are right its confusing. Back in HS I had a friend that lived there for a couple years and I used to visit him alot. Like one part is a black area, then it magically turns into a white neighborhood
For a job I did I was in Red Hook almost everyday to go to this supply store there. Didn't even realize I was in Red Hook until I used Google Maps. You literally have no idea where it begins or ends

I just assume everything south of the BQE is Red Hook. Also idk how red hook gentrified while having poor access to transportation

 

[Rell Lauren]

I just assume everything south of the BQE is Red Hook. Also idk how red hook gentrified while having poor access to transportation

There's housing in Red Hook to cater to those types but the neighborhood has a long way to go before you can say it's gentrified. As mentioned, the poor access to transportation. Depending where you are in the neighborhood, it can take up to 20 minutes to get to Smith/9th Street (the only train station that serves that area of Brooklyn. The crime is still high for a gentrifying neighborhood and all of the schools rate poorly.

Yesterday, I was looking at apartments just to look and they retrofitted one of the old warehouses. One of the vacancies is going for 7K. Spacious and sits on the water. Depending where you are, you have views of the Port of New Jersey.

 

[UberEatsDriver]

There's housing in Red Hook to cater to those types but the neighborhood has a long way to go before you can say it's gentrified. As mentioned, the poor access to transportation. Depending where you are in the neighborhood, it can take up to 20 minutes to get to Smith/9th Street (the only train station that serves that area of Brooklyn. The crime is still high for a gentrifying neighborhood and all of the schools rate poorly.

Yesterday, I was looking at apartments just to look and they retrofitted one of the old warehouses. One of the vacancies is going for 7K. Spacious and sits on the water. Depending where you are, you have views of the Port of New Jersey.

true that. Some of the new row homes there look nice as hell

 

[UpAndComing]

I just assume everything south of the BQE is Red Hook. Also idk how red hook gentrified while having poor access to transportation

Exactly. The only thing in that vicinity is the F and G train, and I think the B61. And F is the only reliable transportation


One good thing about Corona is that some of these CACs are moving back to wherever middle of nowhere states they came from

 

[Rell Lauren]

true that. Some of the new row homes there look nice as hell

If they found a way to better service the neighborhood, gentrification would take off. It's just not worth paying 7K to live in what's the equivalent to Canarsie. I could pay 1K more and live in Boerum Hill with readily accessible public transportation yet still have the quiet I desire.

 

[UberEatsDriver]

@Rell Lauren im on streeteasy and see a three bedroom apartment for $2700 in red hook. Wow you ain’t finding that in most of north bk east of bed stuy

 

[Rell Lauren]

@SourPowerStraws Definitely not. If you have a whip, it's a good place to consider.

 

[UpAndComing]

I don't think you get what I'm saying.

The title of the video is can gentrification be flipped (reversed).

Using your Brooklyn example, I would have expected the guy to have a method of stopping white people from completely gentrifying Brooklyn, when the process had already started, and more than that, getting them out the neighborhood.

If you're in a decaying neighborhood, most likely gentrification hasn't started yet so you can't flip or reverse anything.

The title of the video should have been "How to make neighborhoods fullproof from gentrification".

From the video, I don't think he's talking about NYC though
He said he bought a whole block for $400k, so that has to be somewhere in the Midwest

He also said buying that block to attract high income black people to live there, and therefore upping the value

 

[UberEatsDriver]

From the video, I don't think he's talking about NYC though
He said he bought a whole block for $400k, so that has to be somewhere in the Midwest

He also said buying that block to attract high income black people to live there, and therefore upping the value

so he’s trying to gentrify the area?(

 

[UpAndComing]

so he’s trying to gentrify the area?(

Well yeah, the title of the video is "Flipping Gentrification", basically for Black people