My NYC Black Folk......Gentrification

[CashmereThoughts]

No its not

Its a regular apt in a regular building.

Its bigger then 300ft but lets be serious. Its a studio Which is basically 1 big ass room. I'd be damned if I paid $1000+ for a big ass room.

So how's the school dist?

 

[mson]

Anyone affiliated w/Bloomberg is gonna get the gas face... city is way worse off under him now than it was when he got it, due largely to his "Euro Hova" luxury city policies

Over for Quinn.

 

[Wild self]

NYC needs a Democrat Mayor with fiscally balls to tell Wall Street cats to pay their share. A first in 20 years.

 

[88m3]

StreetEasy: 82 Lexington Ave. - Multi-family Apartment Sale in Bedford-Stuyvesant, Brooklyn

not a bad price considering 500-800k will get you a 2/3 bedroom in clinton and parkslope. Not that I could swing the downpayment on the above.

I was supposed to go to a few open houses over the weekend but got tied up.. trying to hunt down a brownstone right now. Brooklyn is going to be out of reach in ten years at this rate.
Or at least anywhere relatively close to manhattan.

 

[88m3]

Where in Brooklyn for $550? That studio is probably less than 300 Square Feet and probably one of those deals where you share the damn bathroom with the whole floor. That's not acceptable to me. People really need to start exploring their options.

I had a 1 bedroom for 1000 in crown heights top floor of brownstone

This morning i noticed for the first time as i was riding the E to work, 85 percent of the subway car was non black, maybe 90% to be honest, i was shocked as hell, have that many blacks moved out of Queens? Granted i get on at Roosevelt after transferring from the R where it is mainly Asian and Spanish but what the hell happened to blacks from Queens?

I took the train to forest hills one day and I didn't see a single black person

 

[TLR Is Mental Poison]

NYC needs a Democrat Mayor with fiscally balls to tell Wall Street cats to pay their share. A first in 20 years.

 

[Francis White]

I had a 1 bedroom for 1000 in crown heights top floor of brownstone






I took the train to forest hills one day and I didn't see a single black person

I know what you mean, how is this possible? The last stop is Jamaica, where are the blacks now? I was on the F train to work and again packed train car, less than 10 blacks on it. WTF happened?

 

[ogc163]

NYC needs a Democrat Mayor with fiscally balls to tell Wall Street cats to pay their share. A first in 20 years.

 

[Tommy Fits]

I know what you mean, how is this possible? The last stop is Jamaica, where are the blacks now?

South East Queens, Laurelton, Springfield Gardens, Cambria Heights, Rosedale, Rochdale.

 

[Francis White]

South East Queens, Laurelton, Springfield Gardens, Cambria Heights, Rosedale, Rochdale.

I know but why are they not on the trains to go work, these areas are so out of the way the commute must be crazy long. Rochdale i have not been in that area since the 90's, how is it now?

 

[Tommy Fits]

I know but why are they not on the trains to go work, these areas are so out of the way the commute must be crazy long. Rochdale i have not been in that area since the 90's, how is it now?

A lot of them are driving, LIRR, or driving to other neighborhoods with easier parking and taking the subway from there. Why deal with Jamaica when you can go and extra 5 minutes to somewhere like Ozone Park and actually find a parking spot and take the A train from there ? And Rochdale has always been Rochdale to me, but I'm a cac so I only work near by I don't live there.

 

[the next guy]

Little Italy is getting tinier as once vibrant immigrant community is diminished thanks to gentrification - NY Daily News

Italians don't like this either. Little Italy, Manhattan is gone.

 

[bosshogg]

same thang in DC

 

[88m3]

Little Italy is getting tinier as once vibrant immigrant community is diminished thanks to gentrification - NY Daily News

Italians don't like this either. Little Italy, Manhattan is gone.

it's been gone

 

[88m3]

I know what you mean, how is this possible? The last stop is Jamaica, where are the blacks now? I was on the F train to work and again packed train car, less than 10 blacks on it. WTF happened?

I'm not sure man I grew up in Queens. I haven't lived in the city full time since 02'. I moved back around the beginning of 12'. It could have been the time of the day, it could have been the train. I think it was an express train. Are there still black people in Jamaica? Twilight zone status...