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So, one way or another gentrification is going to hit East New York. So, what's left after that? How far can this process go, Canarsie? I mean, what's left? The suburbs of Canarsie? Flatlands? Starret City? I think, it's preordained-by the powers that be and greed. Once Brooklyn rivals Manhattan, there's going to be no choice but to gentrify the whole Brooklyn, like Manhattan. We are witnessing the future of NYC, right before our very own eyes.
East New York and Brownsville are dumping grounds where the city concentrates poor people (on government programs, those who just got out of prison and need halfway houses, etc.) These people have to live somewhere and cannot be shifted out of the state.
Chicago wanted to get rid of it's housing projects that were near the downtown area and the University of Chicago. So they demolished them and moved the housing project residents into working class suburbs which became the new ghettoes. Chicago's murder rate is three times that of NYC's.
So where in NY would they be stupid enough to want to take East New York's poor en masse, knowing full well this new location would become a new equally bad ghetto.
Northern ENY along Atlantic Ave to Pitkin Ave (likely choice) is on the marinating phase of gentrification. While Cypress Hills to the north is entering phase 1. Last night even, I saw a few white folks (more than ever in previous time, and I lived in CH for a long time) getting off Van Siclen, Norwood and Crescent with their guitar cases around 1am.
Northern ENY along Atlantic Ave to Pitkin Ave (likely choice) is on the marinating phase of gentrification. While Cypress Hills to the north is entering phase 1. Last night even, I saw a few white folks (more than ever in previous time, and I lived in CH for a long time) getting off Van Siclen, Norwood and Crescent with their guitar cases around 1am.
A lot of white musicians are on welfare. I know starving white artists and bartenders who live in places like the Bronx. Contrary to popular belief a few poor whites showing up does not magically transform a neighborhood.
Neighborhoods that full gentrify tend to be close to job centers and often got major investment in the form of jobs (tech sector companies like Google set up shop in Chelsea, there are media/film/tv companies in Chelsea, plus Chelsea is close to Midtown and Downtown. Plus Chelsea had nowhere near the amount of public housing that East New York has).
Major property developers are not selling million dollar condos in ENY or charging $3k a month for a studio in ENY, and they are nowhere near able to do that.
The whites living in Bushwick or Bedstuy are somewhat marginally (students unable to afford being closer to the schools they go to, artists who haven't made money in their art, recent graduates who haven't gotten a good job, bartenders and waiters, low income gays, etc, ). The original hipster scene has been priced out of the Lower East Side and now Williamsburg and has had to move into the hood.
So, one way or another gentrification is going to hit East New York. So, what's left after that? How far can this process go, Canarsie? I mean, what's left? The suburbs of Canarsie? Flatlands? Starret City? I think, it's preordained-by the powers that be and greed. Once Brooklyn rivals Manhattan, there's going to be no choice but to gentrify the whole Brooklyn, like Manhattan. We are witnessing the future of NYC, right before our very own eyes.
Relax. These neighborhoods are by and large isolated from the subway. As long as that remains the case, these below average neighborhoods will remain below average.
It's really gonna be something the day you see a trustafarian on a ladder against a wall in east NY writing "spread love, its the Brooklyn way" in a rainbow assortment of letters. And the sad part is, its totally plausible today with the direction that NY is going. Its not gentrifying, its sanfrancising.
These areas will eventually gentrify, but it will take a LONG time. I mean, Canarsie is practically suburban. It's soooo far from where hipsters/yuppies want to live. Closer in, around Broadway Junction, yeah, that will gentrify (it might already be gentrifying somewhat). Bed Stuy and Brownsville are gentrifying like crazy and ENY is the next neighborhood out.
These areas will eventually gentrify, but it will take a LONG time. I mean, Canarsie is practically suburban. It's soooo far from where hipsters/yuppies want to live. Closer in, around Broadway Junction, yeah, that will gentrify (it might already be gentrifying somewhat). Bed Stuy and Brownsville are gentrifying like crazy and ENY is the next neighborhood out.
First let's wait and see if Bushwick, Bed-Stuy and Crown Heights gentrify first. So far they've just went from super ghetto status to regular ghetto status.
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