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Yes, just because affordable housing is being built in an area does not mean gentrification.
Rents always go up. Whether they will go down is just debatable. Gentrifier type people will not go to these areas because they are too far out, a much longer commute from core areas of the city, and these areas have less to offer in terms of almost everything. I honestly think its impossible for a place like NYC to completely gentrify.
Have you ever ridden a train to Manhattan from Brownsville or ENY?
The Gentrifiers do not have a desire to live there.
It's strange how people can say that gentrifers don't want to live in those neighborhoods because of the commute, meanwhile those neighborhoods are 1-7 stops from gentrifying Crown Heights and others, so what an additional 3 min commute is going to make such a drastic difference?
Unappealing housing stock and crime yes I could understand, but commute? Sorry I'm not buying it.
It's strange how people can say that gentrifers don't want to live in those neighborhoods because of the commute, meanwhile those neighborhoods are 1-7 stops from gentrifying Crown Heights and others, so what an additional 3 min commute is going to make such a drastic difference?
Unappealing housing stock and crime yes I could understand, but commute? Sorry I'm not buying it.
Broadway Junction is very convenient. Other than Downtown Brooklyn and LIC, it is probably the next most central subway hub outside of Manhattan.
Really? Far Rockaway? Wakefield? Jamaica? Seriously...
Jamaica is literally 1 stop from Manhattan via the LIRR. Briarwood is nice and only a few blocks north by Hillside. As for the Rockaways, it's already changing, and the cheap housing stock plus access to the beach and A train and LIRR might appeal to some.
It has potential as we previously stated. Although I no longer live in Cypress Hills but I'm near it. What CH also needs is a clean up, some unruly tenants in CH right now. But it can be cleaned up fast. I also think faster than Bushwick considering how narrow and small the neighborhood really is, especially north to south boundaries.
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