My thoughts on gentrification (New York, Red Hook: rentals, coop, house)

[Moth]

Originally Posted by Miles

I guess that some charm has to be scarificed owing to expediency and the need for housing. The city fathers and others in the community try to strike a balance via landmarking - but that generally helps buildings not entire swaths of neighborhoods.

Perhaps.

I was struck more by how the phrase, the more things change the more things stay the same, might be appropriate for New York City. Other places as well.

New York, it seems, is perpetually expensive if not unaffordable. A constant in an ever-changing city.

[Joe Bama!]

Gentrification is a terrible thing, all the yuppies/hipsters/transplants have sucked up the culture in this city. Removed people from their lifetime homes. Generations have been disrupted so some dude could move here for a couple of years. Damn coffee shops and restaurants can't afford or want for that matter. More friggin Bars than toilet bowls.
i feel like a damn tourist in my own hometown.
I'm from here and can't find a damn place to live. Yet every Tom, Dick, Chad, and Brett find a way to live anywhere working at a damn record shop or some sh*t!
Gentrification is right up there with the obliteration of the native americans. The pain, the colonial attitude of the new commers. As if you derserve it, your damn privlegded attitudes make sick all over.
The city is slipping away as we know it.
We asked for affordable housing, better schools, and hospitals and we got Muffin Shops!

I guess New York is always changing, its up to you whether or not you wanna change with it.

[NJ Chutzpah]

so what can we do to stop this?

[Andysocks]

Originally Posted by Joe Bama!

The pain, the colonial attitude of the new commers.

Yeah that's the most painful thing isn't it?

But I love the way the hipster girls dress!

[Moderate Guy]

Originally Posted by Andysocks

Yeah that's the most painful thing isn't it?

But I love the way the hipster girls dress!

Yep. I'd say let all the sexy female hipsters in, send the fellas back to the Midwest..

[NJ Chutzpah]

Female Yuppies dress much more classy

actually come to think of it, i do not quite have an image of female hipsters

if you would be so kind as to post pix

[Huckleberry3911948]

there will be work in the cities those willing and able will come there to do it. they will buy homes and fix them up. those that don't fit that profile will have to come up with another plan. this is happening at a much faster rate than most perceive. we wil fit the profile of france very soon.

[DAS]

Originally Posted by Huckleberry3911948

there will be work in the cities those willing and able will come there to do it. they will buy homes and fix them up. those that don't fit that profile will have to come up with another plan. this is happening at a much faster rate than most perceive. we wil fit the profile of france very soon.

If they can work for the city and afford to buy the homes to be able to fix them up. If they work for the city, most of the time they can barely afford to rent in a decent area. What is the profile of France in your opinion?

[Joe Bama!]

Originally Posted by Andysocks

Yeah that's the most painful thing isn't it?

But I love the way the hipster girls dress!

No the most painful thing is the torn families, its the people who lived through the tough times only to be kicked out when things got better.


The most painful things is the lack of responsiblity.
lack of knowledge of ones role in the process, native or not.

[crisp444]

Originally Posted by NJ Chutzpah

so what can we do to stop this?

I'm still waiting to hear a good answer on this. Complain, complain, complain, but offer no solutions while the "problem" keeps going...