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Most of SI requires car ownership due to scant public transportation options. Factor in car expenses and inevitable tolls and it's not really a cheap place to live. In some of the North Shore communities you can get by without a car but it's not easy.
The larger something gets, the harder it is for it grow. Gentrification may not totally stop but it will subside.
I don't see the Bronx, as a whole, gentrifying. Even Brooklyn and Queens as a whole have not gentrified.
The Bronx is still pretty terrible overall, and there are still plenty of places in the more popular boroughs for gentrification to destroy. If I had to guess, it will be another 25+ years before this is a legitimate concern.
However, New Jersey would be the next frontier, if what I've been reading is true.
The larger something gets, the harder it is for it grow. Gentrification may not totally stop but it will subside.
I don't see the Bronx, as a whole, gentrifying. Even Brooklyn and Queens as a whole have not gentrified.
Ultimately I think subway service in the Bronx is too poor for it to gentrify to the degree Brooklyn has. The hipsters tend to not have cars and will all starve to death in 2019 when the L closes.
Ultimately I think subway service in the Bronx is too poor for it to gentrify to the degree Brooklyn has. The hipsters tend to not have cars and will all starve to death in 2019 when the L closes.
I was saying this on another thread. These millenial hipsters will not live any farther than a 30 minute commute to work. Nobody can name a neighborhood on here that is more than a 30 minute train ride from the Financial District or Midtown that has gentrified.
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I was saying this on another thread. These millenial hipsters will not live any farther than a 30 minute commute to work. Nobody can name a neighborhood on here that is more than a 30 minute train ride from the Financial District or Midtown that has gentrified.
Also keep in mind the expansion of the urban core. You have growing business centers in LIC and in Downtown Brooklyn. A film studio opened up in the South Bronx, which is also getting additional corporate investment. Investments in the form of professional jobs create new areas within 30 minutes of commutes to jobs.
Ultimately I think subway service in the Bronx is too poor for it to gentrify to the degree Brooklyn has. The hipsters tend to not have cars and will all starve to death in 2019 when the L closes.
This is true. Also Bronx is not a subway borough like Brooklyn. Bronx is a car centric borough thanks to its development of expressways that crisscross and belts around the borough. Gentrification needs public transportation. Only South Bronx will have gentrification due immediate subway access into Manhattan.
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