What does gentrified/hip Brooklyn include?

[silverbullnyc]

People who think fort green is still dangerous should never post in this forum again when it comes to questions regarding the area.

[DoomDan515]

Originally Posted by silverbullnyc

People who think fort green is still dangerous should never post in this forum again when it comes to questions regarding the area.

The parts north of Park Avenue/the BQE are still sketchy. That's where the bulk of the NYCHA is, and gentrification is nearly non existed there. Between Myrtle and Atlantic however, is completely different.

[King of Kensington]

Brooklyn has made a similar turnabout. In 1969, its per capita income was at the U.S. average. The housing in the “Brownstone” areas of the borough had mostly been built before 1920, and thus had generally turned 50 years old in 1969, and that is the age at which housing is typically passed down from those who can afford the cost of new housing units to the less well off. In the 1950s and 1960s many middle class families from Brooklyn were buying homes in the suburbs, Staten Island and Queens. But much of the southern rim of the borough still had housing that was mostly less than 50 years old, and still had residents that were mostly middle class.
In the 1970s, however, large areas of the older Brownstone belt turned poor, and later much of the southern rim was occupied by the kind of striving immigrants generally associated with Queens. The borough’s per capita income was 15.0% below the U.S. average in 1980 and 19.1% below average in the year 2000. Since then more affluent people, at first those priced out of Manhattan and then those arriving directly from all over the world, began to move into the oldest sections of Brooklyn, those that were poorer in 1969. Brooklyn’s per capita income is still below the U.S. average, but by only 5.0% or so.

https://larrylittlefield.wordpress.c...ity-residents/