What are your favorite NYC neighborhoods?

[Cave Savage]

riverdale*

Riverdale has some beautiful areas, though. The only time I went there was for Wave Hill and it looked nice (not somewhere I would want to live, though). Kingbridge to its East, is my favorite neighborhood in The Bronx though

Williamsburg has amazing food. That’s about it

I know you don't drink, but Williamsburg has great nightlife and it's not just cacs over there. Same thing with Bushwick now too

 

[YamakaSmacker]

Williamsburg actually has "urban", spots, like Kinfolk 94 and Bembe. Most black people I've talked to who went to Williamsburg before like it.

And were they the ultra Orthodox type? I didn't even know they were allowed to have a social life like that.

Nah they were regular chicks that both apparently just got hired a jp morgan. It was weird because they were complaining about gentrification (obviously trying to appeal to my black ass).
But they were dressed up and regular as hell.

 

[010101]

Riverdale has some beautiful areas, though. The only time I went there was for Wave Hill and it looked nice (not somewhere I would want to live, though). Kingbridge to its East, is my favorite neighborhood in The Bronx though

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wave.hill is a chill spot

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[Cave Savage]

Nah they were regular chicks that both apparently just got hired a jp morgan. It was weird because they were complaining about gentrification (obviously trying to appeal to my black ass).
But they were dressed up and regular as hell.

Complaining about gentrification while likely participating in it lol.

There actually are a lot of Jews that grow up in Crown Heights but they're the Hassidic type that are very insular. Total weirdos, they have several little enclaves like that

 

[Big Daddy]

I was born in Brooklyn, Bushwick. Lived on Shaefer St and other surrounding blocks. Evergreen. Eldert. Putnam Ave. We moved around the neighborhood a lot and lived all those places. Forgive me if I’m not really accurate on the street names or if they’re all in Bushwick or not. There’s one street that starts with an F that I’m forgetting. Filbert? We even moved to an area in Queens at one point that I can’t recall the name of, but I remember the house was huge and my dad was making good money and that we didn’t stay there long

Left NYC when I was mad young though b. I think I was literally like 5. And haven’t stepped foot back in NYC ever since. Not once. Not by deliberate choice, just never went back as a family as a kid and now as an adult I haven’t made that trip.

But I’ve been thinking for the past two years or so of just moving back.

I want to reclaim my roots.

I’m supposed to be just another Brooklyn kid.

 

[Cave Savage]

I was born in Brooklyn. Lived in Bushwick. Shaefer St and other surrounding blocks. Evergreen. Putnam Ave. Left when I was mad young though b. I think I was literally 5. Haven’t stepped foot back in NYC ever since. Not once. Not by deliberate choice, just never went back as a family as a kid and now as an adult I haven’t made that trip. But I’ve been thinking for the past two years or so of just moving back.
I want to reclaim my roots. I’m supposed to be just another Brooklyn kid.

Bushwick is a fun neighborhood to hang out in. There's a bar I went to the other day on Wyckoff Ave and there were sooo many fine black chicks in there. That's not really the norm for the neighborhood overall (where the nightlife is usually oriented towards hipsters or Latino immigrants), but the crowd is still usually diverse throughout the neighborhood.

It's also a very walkable, human scale neighborhood which is a good thing. Good public transit, not too many big highways, commercial activity on most of the East/West streets, etc.

 

[Big Daddy]

Bushwick is a fun neighborhood to hang out in. There's a bar I went to the other day on Wyckoff Ave and there were sooo many fine black chicks in there. That's not really the norm for the neighborhood overall (where the nightlife is usually oriented towards hipsters or Latino immigrants), but the crowd is still usually diverse throughout the neighborhood.

It's also a very walkable, human scale neighborhood which is a good thing. Good public transit, not too many big highways, commercial activity on most of the East/West streets, etc.

In other words it ain’t the black hood no more it’s just gentrified bs now?

 

[Cave Savage]

In other words it ain’t the black hood no more it’s just gentrified bs now?

No, there are still a lot of black people in Lower/Eastern Bushwick. I meant more so that I haven't seen black lounges there like you would in the black parts of BK, but maybe they exist.

Although even pre-gentrification I think there were some demographic differences within the neighborhood, and it was always more Latino than black (since the white flight era). Lower Bushwick (which includes the block you mention) is more of a black/Latino mix while upper Bushwick is more like a straight up Latino neighborhood with some white hipsters throughout.

This is the area you mentioned, present day

Google Maps

 

[UberEatsDriver]

Nah they were regular chicks that both apparently just got hired a jp morgan. It was weird because they were complaining about gentrification (obviously trying to appeal to my black ass).
But they were dressed up and regular as hell.

That’s my biggest issues the ones contributing to it be the main one complaining but since you said JP Morgan I’ll forgive them if they actually live in legit nice areas not crippled by gentrification lol

 

[Cave Savage]

That’s my biggest issues the ones contributing to it be the main one complaining but since you said JP Morgan I’ll forgive them if they actually live in legit nice areas not crippled by gentrification lol

He said they live in Crown Heights. While I think it's a nice neighborhood (some of the best architecture in Brooklyn), it is definitely one of the neighborhoods facing the most gentrification.

The thing is, white people think that they can't be gentrifiers if they're from New York, since anti-gentrification people won't always admit that it's a race thing and not transplant thing.

 

[Cave Savage]

Google Maps

And the other side of Bushwick. Most heavily gentrified part of the neighborhood, mix of Puerto Ricans, Mexicans, and white folk . I think 69 is from this area.

 

[Mr. Jack Napier]

I don't have a favorite neighborhood, but I will say Dyckman/Washington Heights is one of the most overrated places in the city

 

[Cave Savage]

I don't have a favorite neighborhood, but I will say Dyckman/Washington Heights is one of the most overrated places in the city

What don't you like about it?

 

[Mr. Jack Napier]

What don't you like about it?

Everything

 

[UberEatsDriver]

He said they live in Crown Heights. While I think it's a nice neighborhood (some of the best architecture in Brooklyn), it is definitely one of the neighborhoods facing the most gentrification.

The thing is, white people think that they can't be gentrifiers if they're from New York, since anti-gentrification people won't always admit that it's a race thing and not transplant thing.

Oh if that’s the case then fukk those girls. Were they black?