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Reason why Bushwick was the fastest gentrifying ghetto in NYC has to do with it's continuous and unobstructed urban grid, which includes Bed-Stuy and Ridgewood, and it's largely mixed use landscape (you'll find residential, commercial, retail, and industrial zoning on adjacent blocks). In addition to what I said earlier about it's diversity of housing stock. Also very few high-rise NYCHA complexes in Bushwick.
Bushwick got a lot of NYCHA tho
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You think Chinese in Bensonhurst go to private schools? I seriously doubt it. Where, exactly? The only local private schools are Orthodox schuls and a few Russian and Catholic schools.
Yes. Latino and immigrant owned businesses in general anywhere in the city do. Ethnic restaurants have cheap food for starters. Delis and bodegas you can get beer from.
They also run a lot of those car service companies, some of which now double as ubers
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Reason why Bushwick was the fastest gentrifying ghetto in NYC has to do with it's continuous and unobstructed urban grid, which includes Bed-Stuy and Ridgewood, and it's largely mixed use landscape (you'll find residential, commercial, retail, and industrial zoning on adjacent blocks). In addition to what I said earlier about it's diversity of housing stock. Also very few high-rise NYCHA complexes in Bushwick.
I bet it helps that the streets are tight, too. Not too many highways or wide steets.
Places like the South Bronx, upper Manhattan, Bushwick, Bed Stuy, South Jamaica, etc.
Were there any white kids in the zoned public schools you went to?
No, most public schools I attended either had very few or none at all. I attended public schools in eastern/central Brooklyn, Harlem, and the South Bronx. They were exclusively black/latino, some more black some more Latin and others about even
Not really. Less so than all the other surrounding Brooklyn neighborhoods. It is really just Hope Gardens, and those are only two story buildings. Even Williamsburg and Greenpoint have more PJs than Bushwick.
It is like night and day from when I was a kid in the 1980s
I remember when those blocks were really dangerous at night man....
Parade Place - forget it!
30 years ago I was having a drink on Cortelyou Rd. with a couple of West Indian guys affiliated with the Flatbush Development Corp.
We were talking about that corner of Flatbush east of the Parade Grounds - I mentioned I went to Boy Scouts on St Paul's Place - an Indo - Caribbean guy says " I saw my first shooting on St Paul's Place ".Rough times.
Last time I came through that Caton/Church area I noticed the increased Mexican presence - Our Lady of Guadalupe represented at Holy Innocents Church.
30 years ago I was having a drink on Cortelyou Rd. with a couple of West Indian guys affiliated with the Flatbush Development Corp.
We were talking about that corner of Flatbush east of the Parade Grounds - I mentioned I went to Boy Scouts on St Paul's Place - an Indo - Caribbean guy says " I saw my first shooting on St Paul's Place ".Rough times.
Last time I came through that Caton/Church area I noticed the increased Mexican presence - Our Lady of Guadalupe represented at Holy Innocents Church.
Neighboring Kensington has a larger Mexican presence than people give it credit for IMO. The area around Church and McDonald Ave is known for Bengalis, but I see as many Mexican kids walking around there as I do Bengali (I know that's anecdotal, but still).
No, most public schools I attended either had very few or none at all. I attended public schools in eastern/central Brooklyn, Harlem, and the South Bronx. They were exclusively black/latino, some more black some more Latin and others about even
That's interesting to think that a lot of black and Latino kids in Upper Manhattan, The Bronx, and Central/Eastern BK might not know a single white person growing up. Also some schools appear to be straight up black.
Even the white areas on Long Island that I'm familiae with have at least some minority kids.
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That is what I meant by the unobstructed urban grid. Also no train tracks dividing the neighborhood or driveways splitting up blocks.
That's interesting to think that a lot of black and Latino kids in Upper Manhattan, The Bronx, and Central/Eastern BK might not know a single white person growing up. Also some schools appear to be straight up black.
Even the white areas on Long Island that I'm familiae with have at least some minority kids.
There are not enough white kids in nyc public school system to spread around. Around 70% of students are black or hispanic. The biggest population of white kids are on Staten Island.
I am interested to see what radical plan the mayor and school chancellor comes up with to bring down the few high performing schools made up of mostly asian and white due to test admission needed.
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