Damn breh.. Everything I know about in my neighborhood in Chicago comes from my alderman office, community meetings and talk radio.. Nobody is looking to link up with others in the community?
NYC is general is heavily divided, especially in terms of neighborhoods
Even within neighborhoods, there are subdivisions
A good example of this is in Brooklyn in particular. A lot of Brooklyn neighborhoods had sizable Black populations a few years ago. Over the course of my lifetime (38 years) I have steadily seen these neighborhoods decline in Black population and fall victim to gentrification.
Now these same white people moving into these neighborhoods are integrating their OWN groups and organizations, claiming they speak for the whole neighborhood, and meanwhile, the Black people in the neighborhood are like "Who the fukk are you???".
My neighborhood, Fort Greene/Clinton Hill, is an especially prominent example of this. Go ahead, and Google some of the local papers and or news sites.
They'll move in, live here for 5 maybe even 10 years and then SWEAR they're not gentrifiers or that they want to bring the neighborhood "together"
Meanwhile, these places always had local orgs, community groups, etc.
It's Christopher Columbus Syndrome but for the modern age. It's going on in Bed Stuy, Crown Heights, and Flatbush too.
And they know this, and they use their whiteness, and their money, and their power, to affect change for THEM
Meanwhile the Black people who may have been living there for 30...40...50 years are like....WTF??
And there are politicians (yes even Black ones!) that support this kind of thing too, because they know damn well they can't win elections without the colonizers, since just campaigning on what Black people SPECIFICALLY want is a non-starter.
It always has to be tied to some other shyt that we likely could give a flying fukk about