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Greenpoint is a neighborhood that has the red-headed step-child of Brooklyn: The G train. I used to work there at the garbage dump site you guys have, back in 1999. That train was a nightmare to use and still is. Transport options are limited. Quirky features of the nabe were nice but you can't hold onto that. Not in America where the population changes dramatically every generation or so. Every neighborhood changes. Nothing stays the same. Look at Canarsie. It was mostly wealthy and is now a ghetto. The reverse goes for those ghettoes being gentrified in parts of Bklyn and NYC. We have to adapt and move along with life...
Canarsie was never wealthy. I don't care who lived there first or who is living there now. It was never a wealthy area.
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I think it's funny you assume all of the midwest is bland, or what I assume you mean "white upper middle class families".
The thing is, look at detroit. That is a "Middle America" city. It's very dangerous. Is that bland? I'm from Cleveland, which was the third most dangerous city in the US for a while. Is that bland? Please elaborate.
They are just wannabe repositories for black people in the midwest because god knows you don't want them in your mcmansions an in your megachurches. Detroit and Cleveland got to pay their respects to New York biggest baddest city in the English speaking world. Only reason the homicide rate is low is because NY criminals are smart.
Canarsie, wealthy, really? When was that? Canarsie was and still is a middle class working neighborhood. Now, in the 80s it was still an Italian/Jewish neighborhood. Today it is a predominantly Afro-Caribbean neighborhood, so what! New York is always changing. Who and what is here today, won't be 10 or 20 years from now. It's how this city is.
And like a previous poster stated;"Polish Greenpoint died ten years ago, get over it". Yeah get over it already.
Canarsie, wealthy, really? When was that? Canarsie was and still is a middle class working neighborhood. Now, in the 80s it was still an Italian/Jewish neighborhood. Today it is a predominantly Afro-Caribbean neighborhood, so what! New York is always changing. Who and what is here today, won't be 10 or 20 years from now. It's how this city is.
And like a previous poster stated;"Polish Greenpoint died ten years ago, get over it". Yeah get over it already.
So people should get over it when they are bullied out of their homes?
So people should get over it when they are bullied out of their homes?
How were you bullied? You really mean priced out, right? Listen guy get over it. I'm a life long Brooklynite like yourself and I have seen my old neighborhood change too. I just had the foresight 20 years ago to see the change coming and I prepared for it. Hey these "hipsters" are renting from someone. They most likely have a Polish landlord who is making a bundle in a rent roll every month on a house or building that was paid off years ago.
They have not completely taken Bushwick. But the RE people know it will happen, and have bought everything available up.
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