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That'll never happen. For one, some further out areas simply have zero appeal. Why would gentrifiers want to live in Canarsie? It's mostly 2-3 family homes far away from the subway. Same with much of East Flatbush and Flatlands. Same applies to Eastern Queens, NE Bronx, and SI. People who move here with money want to live in urban areas, which these areas are not.
Properties are selling and changing hands at a healthy rate also in Flatlands East Flatbush and Canarsie. This areas seem to appeal to middle class and well put blue collar Caribbean people's (Guyanese,Trinis, Grenadians, Jamaicans etc) and white Europeans too.
Many of the Caribbean people come from Crown Heights,Prospect Heights lately Flatbush,which by gentrifying is been "displacing" many. While many others who do own property have been selling for great amount based on the demand and appreciation to buy elsewhere.
So they might not be just white,yuppie,hippie or rich for that matter with the general hype which leads to the whitening (gentrification) of areas. But there is indeed a change of hands of properties for the better while still diverse,including the white European community in certain sections and scattered throughout.
Also those 3 areas give you the choice of a different type of New York. Very calm,relaxed,parking wether garage or street plus an excellent inventory of properties with much more space. And what's 5-10 minutes away from the nearest subway? C'MON!
Not trying to give ideas to the wrong people but the area is actually a hidden gem just as it is much more so than East New York even without the subway.
The same applies to the other areas you mentioned,not walking distance to the subway but close enough to drive and park or Uber it.Is still the city! Also not everyone have jobs only in Manhattan! And people do drive in the city and not just ride the subway!
If you jump back 30 years people were saying the same thing about the east village. Some CD user posted a NYT article in a gentrification thread where we were trying to trace when gentrification started. The article was from 1984 and about gentrification in the east village and read word for word almost like this paragraph. Now brownstones are $10 or $15 million in the east village.
Wealthy have decided that they are no longer crazy about suburban living and want the excitement of urban living and so they are pushing people further and further out of the city driving up rents and prices of homes.
If your working class and you say you live in New York very soon that will mean Jersey City or Yonkers
They'll have to go even further out than JC or YO. Both cities are gentrifying as we speak. Yonkers even has its own brewery down on the waterfront!
If you jump back 30 years people were saying the same thing about the east village. Some CD user posted a NYT article in a gentrification thread where we were trying to trace when gentrification started. The article was from 1984 and about gentrification in the east village and read word for word almost like this paragraph. Now brownstones are $10 or $15 million in the east village.
Wealthy have decided that they are no longer crazy about suburban living and want the excitement of urban living and so they are pushing people further and further out of the city driving up rents and prices of homes.
If your working class and you say you live in New York very soon that will mean Jersey City or Yonkers
How about Carmel, NY, or Poconos, PA. Professor John Mollenkopf called the exurbs many years ago.
If you get pushed out to just Jersey City, Yonkers or even Newark, you good! Trust me!
As a London boy why is it I only hear about Queens and Brooklyn?
Is Bronx really that bad?
Because you have to be on a higher level of cool to hear about the Bronx.
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