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That all depends on who you ask. It's complicated. Services improve, rents creep up, longterm residents can't afford and have to move, newcomers are excited to get more floorspace than in Manhattan.
Following publication of this series, Dasani and family were relocated from Fort Greene to a different project in Harlem. IIRC families with small children were also moved out. Dasani was a featured person at the inauguration of the new Mayor last winter.
It's worthwhile to read about this neighborhood through her eyes, if you've never looked at things this way.
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I walked by there there near a commercial area, there was a 3 bedroom for rent ror $5400? are they serious? its too much!
You remove the trashy/ghetto tenants from the neighborhood by pricing them out with collateral damage of coarse but thats ok as you must focus on the bigger picture. There will be collateral damage in any social upgrade or downgrade. That's just the way it is. Fort Greene is a better and safer place because of Gentrification.
The preponderance of dog sheeit everywhere as if a sheet of brownies took over the concrete sidewalks.
You see that all over Manhattan and much of West Brooklyn these days. Between the deluded childless to those seeking to have all the creature comforts of the suburbs in the City dogs are everywhere it seems.
Besides those who do not clean up after Fido there is the stench of dog urine the permeates the air during warm and moist summer months. It seems to have worked its way into the concrete or something. Due to increased water rates many property owners aren't out there hosing down sidewalks like they used to, so the urine just lingers.
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