I was born (1971) and raised in bed stuy. There have always been white people living there, they were just as poor as most of the black ppl there. So this isn't about black people not wanting white folks living in bed stuy. It's about wanting to remain in a neighborhood they've called home and not wanting to be pushed out. THAT'S what they (the people of bed stuy) want/don't want. These people made bed stuy their home after rich white people moved away because they didn't want to live around poor (and mostly black) ppl. Now they're trying to push these people out because they want to live there again? And where are these people supposed to go? These new comers don't even care about that. They aren't moving to bed-stuy to JOIN an already established community. They're moving there to takeover and change shit. They don't want to have anything to do with the people who've been living there already. They don't even speak.
Had any wealthy blacks living in the city stepped up to invest in these neighborhoods when the whites moved out, came in and owned shit and refused to be bought out, this wouldn't have happened. But there's always the well-to-do blacks who never look back at their own so it is what it is.
@@Witchy1976 Please don't act as if it would had been that easy for wealthy blacks to "step up" and invest in these neighborhoods. When whites folks left, so did everything else. You didn't even mention anything about redlining.
100% Real talk Fam.. You have hit this right on the numbers. Baby... I was born (1969) and raised in Bed Stuy, Willoughby ST Between Throop Ave & Sumner Ave, Better known today as Marcus Garvey BLVD... So i'm quite sure that you know the block.. SMH... Tell me or let me Tell you...!
no one owns a neighborhood. it's important for the people moving in to be respectful to the neighborhood's present and future, to its population, and to its history.
I don;t understand what people are complaining about. From the 60s-90s, Bed Stuy was a crime-infested run down shithole full of bums too lazy to get a job & unwilling to maintain the buildings & streets of the neighborhood. Now that hard working people are moving in & cleaning the streets up, of course such massive improvements & renovations are gonna draw people in, which in turn inevitably increases real estate prices because of basic laws of supply & demand. The ghetto/welfare people had decades to turn this neighborhood into a place that attracted investment b/c the beautiful architecture was already there to draw people in - but they squandered the opportunity by neglecting their own backyard, literally. This is a lesson that if you misuse it, you lose it.
Must be nice to be a gentrifier going ruining cultures that have been there for Generations . Pushing out hard working people all while getting money from your Rich mommy and daddy in Connecticut or somewhere in the Midwest United States
I just wanted to say that out of all the short documentaries about brooklyns gentrification, yours is the best! I don't understand why this doesn't have more views!! Ppl need to see this! Brooklyn will never b the same 😕
+A Brooklyn Blogger my friends mom is getting kicked out of her apt in the Bronx, she's lived there for over 30 yrs. The lady that owns the building is selling it , so this topic hits close to home for me. It's terrible what they're doing to the 5 Boroughs.
+CoL BuTLeR I'm sorry to hear about your friend's mother. Gentrification is hitting so many areas in New York City (and elsewhere) and displacing families. It is a real concern for many of us.
+A Brooklyn Blogger thank you , your so sweet. I live on the island , in Suffolk and even by me its gentrifying. I don't think we need 10 coffee shops and multiple yoga places on Main Street It's ridiculous. But I'm just venting lol. You should maybe do another video now that ppl have been living there awhile to see what they really feel about living in Brooklyn. I read a lot of these young hipsters are now moving because it's basically turned into Manhattan . I'd love to see what ppl think now.
A side point: I grew up in China and Singapore. Being from Asian cities, my impression has always been that rich people live near downtown and poorer you are, the further you have to live from the center of everything. It came as a bit of a shock when I learnt that it is the opposite in U.S. (Possibly due to the high rate of car ownership in the U.S. ) To some point, the gentrification process, such as this one in Bed-Stuy, is making American cities more Asian.
There's another post here that explains this "white flight" cycle (while that term is a bit dated, it still seems appropriate). Basically, we're now at the beginning of the cycle where rich people and young professionals are moving back into the cities from the suburbs. The late 20th century was the opposite of this in most places in the USA, where people would move to the suburbs for a variety of reasons that have already been listed. I think that younger generations (especially in large, mostly liberal cities) are much more open to diversity and have a much better grasp of modern wealth inequality in general, so the next mass exodus to suburbs may not happen for some time. I think this issue as a whole could be avoided almost entirely with better long-distance transportation options. Places like Japan have high speed trains, and entrepreneurs like Elon Musk are working on projects like the Hyperloop. If you could get from a location in upstate NY, Long Island, or even Pennsylvania to midtown Manhattan in 10-30 min for an affordable price, I bet you would see plenty of rural development along those routes.
I'm from the Bronx, but always admired Brooklyn before gentrification, because it used to be sooooo DOPE, as far as the people and the culture that was there... now it is more so wack, just like other places, like the Bronx, Harlem, Lower East Side , etc,,, I miss the "Ole New Yawk"
i was born and raised in Harlem, NY. I grew up in the 70s, 80's and 90s (the real NY). Back then NY was really wild, especially the crack epidemic in the 80s. I now live in a 5000sqft home in northern va outside of DC. I have the city life of DC and the surburban life of northern VA. I love VA especially the fact that you can legally carry a firearm. I would never go back to NYC, especially raise my kids there. Me and my family is not trying to downgrade our lifestyle, as what we would have to do if we lived in NYC. Now when go back to NY i see how dirty it is. Dog shit all on the sidewalk, trash every fuckin where, having to ride that nasty ass subway because you dont wanna pay $50 for parking and shit. Now I say "You can keep that shit, Fuck NYC" Basically all these new New Yorkers are transplants, They will never know the real NY as I grew up in. The thing with these transplants is that they are willing to pay the price to have that NY experience. And if it means raising rent because thats what the housing market dictates .....then so be it. Hey, thats business. get over it.!!
Really now all you have to deal with is good old phony smiles racism and hoping that your kid want be call that N word my family is still there and bedford-stuyvesant holding it down with a beautiful brown stone that they will never sell out
It's just a cycle of white flight. Rich people move out the city because the crime, the poor in the city, but when they move too far, the city starts losing its stability in the economy and job market, so the city will do many things to attract those rich people to move back, like gentrification. As the rich people move back to the city, they force the poor people to move out because each time rich people move back, they will bring up the land and property value, which means everything becomes more expensive and the poor people can't afford which anymore. When the poor people move out the city, they will move in to the suburb where is used to be dominated by the rich people. Poor people move in the suburb, they will bring down the land value, which pushes the rich people to move in back to the city..... This cycle will never stop unless we fix the unequal social resources and wealth distribution.
Afanlynness nyc needs the tax base for the police pension. The children of suburban parents are the best people to exploit. Their parents left them with a trust fund. The real estate investors see this. In less than 10 years the children of suburban children became broke. That is why many of them moved to Brooklyn and Hoboken NJ. Now, the same thing is happening. My concern is what’s going to happen to them after they turn 50? They will not have the same rent subsidies that blacks had in the projects.
The cities have the most jobs. A lot of times people with high paying jobs who live in the burbs have to do long commutes to the city to get to work. The rich are moving back to the city partly because everything is a walking distance in the city like your supermarket, deli, restaurant etc.
Neighborhood dynamics have been going on long before Bed-Stuy got gentrified. My grandparents, dirt poor Europeans, moved into in the Carroll Gardens neighborhood in the early 1900's. It was a place of poor working people. Maybe 20 (30?) years ago Manhattan office workers discoverd the neighborhood. Now real estate is selling at $3M-$7m per building. Poor people don't live there any more. I also saw this on Nantucket Island, off the Massachusetts coast, when we visited. The 4th-5th generation natives could no longer afford to live there because rich folks were (are) paying incredible prices for lots and homes. There was a lot of tension (during our week-long visit) between the natives and the new residents. Natives had to sell out, move to the mainland and ferry into work back on the island every day. Their familes had lived there for 150 years (maybe more). News and magazine articles saw no end in sight. Money buys what it wants and the world shuffles around accordingly. Has nothing to do with race.
In the southeast section of San Francisco, there is an area called Bayview-Hunters Point. During World War Two, the neighborhood became an African American neighborhood. Sometime in the late 1980s a modest form of gentrification of Bayview started to occur but it wasn't affluent whites moving in in the Bayview. Rather it was immigrant Chinese families that pooled their monies to buy up family homes. Additionally there was a smaller number of Hispanics that also began to displace the African Americans. It was thought that, given the rate Chinese were moving into Bayview, the neighborhood would become defacto wholly Chinese sometime in the 2000s. Well it hasn't happened _yet_, but the slow movement of African Americans out of the Bayview nieghborhood continues to grind on and it is pretty inevitable that the Bayview will become pretty much a Chinese neighborhood with a not insubstantial Hispanic population. The other neighborhood I mentioned, Hunters Point already has a large Filipino and Chinese and Hispanic presence, but the African American presence is holding better than in the Bayview. Most African Americans being displaced out of the Bayview (and a smaller extent, Hunters Point) neighborhood are moving out of San Francisco and heading northeast of the City to the suburban towns of Fairfield and Suisun City and Antioch and Pittsburg where new suburban "black ghettos" are forming.
lukebccb The process of gentrification is stirring and can involve any race. The source of it is of course monetary. Those who have more means can oust those with less means out of any given neighborhood.
ace98777 . Thank you so much. I agree that Bed-Stuy is a central location and therefore desirable. The issue is that those of the lower economic class are being pushed out of the neighborhood and that's unfair. Some have so many memories of growing up in the neighborhood and now have to say good-bye.
Yes it is sad and painful that the working class renters live at the whim of the real estate market. At least the home owners get a nice big check as they are pushed out. Social lives are wrecked and across the country it is getting harder to find affordable housing. The south may still be relatively cheap but the wages are also a little lower. The problem is that those brownstones in Brooklyn are so beautiful that everyone wants one. Even I would like one but then I guess I would be come part of the problem. Again great video Nicole!
Nicole Grossett What would the black community say if a white 'reporter' went around a neighborhood asking it's residents how they felt about the recent influx of black/colored people? Ill answer, you'd call them racist and kick up a fuss. So whats this video then? PS - I'm colored too and though there are arguments which can definitely be justified about whats going in Bedstuy, you really didn't concentrate on them,
IYC0370 Thanks for watching the video. Firstly, I'm not a reporter. I had an interest in finding out why whites were moving so rapidly into Bedford-Stuyvesant. Therefore, I decided to do a mini-documentary. If you want to concentrate on other arguments, please feel free to film your own documentary. Thanks.
Nicole Grossett I've just been to NY Brooklyn on holiday, I stayed in Brownsville, Forte Greene, Bed Stuy and I must say I have no problem with a mixed community, there was a time in Brooklyn when you could buy a house out right for next to nothing, but most people couldn't be bothered because rent was dirt cheap with no commitment and they unfortunately did not have any foresight... apart from the smart ones. Now people who lived in the suburbs want to move nearer to the city so they can get to work and they can afford to buy the properties. Folks have to realize, if you don't own your house , its not your block and it does not matter how many generations of your family have lived there you can be put out tomorrow if the land lord feels like it. Holler at me and we will reason. Good documentary by the way, me and my people was talking about the same thing and I was raising the same point.
Even tourists have started to visit. I'm from England (and I'm white) and went to stay on Macon Street just a few blocks away from the Utica subway stop. I have to say it's a gorgeous neighbourhood and would definitely recommend it to any of my friends/family who are planning on visiting New York, but aren't too sure if they want to stay in Manhattan. I will say one thing though, me and my two friends I was with decided we wouldn't walk the streets at night. But that was more to do with us being tourists and not being familiar with the area.
Nobody has to live in a bubble. If prosperity comes to an area it can be shared to accommodate everyone. Capitalists are keen to play up the idea that Capitalism has raised more people out of poverty than Communism or Socialism. Gentrification, however, seems to put this notion to the test with less than satisfactory marks for good faith, fairness, and equality. The matter of affordable housing should be parallel with revitalization-really as a no brainer.
Very nice job Nicole. Questions are very fair. Once the crime problem was tackled it was a matter of time before middle and upper income people started moving in .The central location of Bed-Stuy in the city is very desirable.
I'm from Arkansas I'm black I visited bedstuy and went to a block party last year on Malcolm x and hasley st it was dope I want to move to bedstuy but it's too damn expensive
Since its foundation the united states economics have largely favored members of a particular group! The original inhabitants had their land stolen and those brought by force have not been given an opportunity to have a fair chance! How can you call such place " the land of freedom"?
Dont blame the people who are moving and being taken advantage off by greedy brokers, blame the owners and real estate brokers who are setting the requirements for those overpriced apartments which is comparable to Africans selling their own people as slaves to other countries. NYC is one the few places where you will find someone who's dumb enough to pay an arm and a leg for a small one bedroom apartment located in the ghetto where in other states you can rent an entire house for those kind of prices.
At 12:42 the guy with the green tie is basically saying that the government needs to do something. That's absolutely the wrong thing to do. When the government gets involved they tend to force things upon the people. When that happens, it never turns out as expected. Keeping the government out of everybody's business is the better option. Let capitalism and competition dictate the outcome.
Even if you buy a home & are part of a NYC community there doesn't seem to be security bcz there is a hound with more money trying to get you to sell cheap. Some people don't know the value of their properties. If you sell you can't come back. We can't live in peace. Such pressure.
People wanna move into Brooklyn because of the culture and the vibe the city has. Well who do you think put that culture in and give it that edgy vibe? Blacks and Hispanics lol. Without them the city loses its culture and edge. Now it looks more commercialized.
fuk a vibe the hood is depressing its been 30 years now blacks and hispanics neglected their neighbourhoods and now its time to move u probably aint know much about that tho nicole stay in the burbs
Yung Pedro Πατάτας. Your obviously not from NYC... , because the hoods here were not depressing at all , but lively and exciting. You honestly don't know where I live so yr comment doesn't apply to me
Love the documentary! The downtown core of Nashville, TN is noticing many of these condos being built. In my opinion, with affordable housing not being readily available its going to create another housing crisis 10-15 years down the line.
Actually this happens all over the world, especially now the interest rates are low for years already. The rich are buying houses in the city center as an investmen in cities like New York, London, Paris and Amsterdam. The people that were originally looking for a house in the city center are now looking for houses in other neighbourhoods because they can no longer afford the expensive houses in the center. Manhattan is really expensive for almost everyone. Manhattan is nog the playground of the rich and the tourists.
I liked your video (it was very nice to hear local's viewpoint) but I actually don't think gentrification has to do with race at all. It's simply because so many people want to live in Manhattan but many cannot afford it. Bed-Stuy is an affordable neighborhood that seems to be pretty safe. It also has transportation that takes you into the city in no time. Because so many people are wanting to move in, prices begin to raise. Also as the neighborhood becomes more popular stores start to open up which only quickens the gentrification process. Yes, I do believe race-income inequality does exist and agree it's a huge issue in our society. But imo "supply and demand" is the real problem when it comes to gentrifying.
You know people need to stop saying neighborhoods are known for violence because violence happens everywhere. The places do not need to be associated with the actions of individuals
Nice documentary of an interesting neighborhood. Wonder the moment these houses were built many years ago this was already a so called 'black neighborhood'. Don't think so. : )
It's not about race, it's about location and money. People who have enough money to live there will, because renovating old properties is fanancially beneficial to those who have the resources to do so. Those who don't have the resources will move out. Some people resent the change brought on by Gentrification, because they have a lack of resources. They tend to have a sense of entitlement. They aren't living in reality. We live in a Capitalist society. If you want to live in a certain property, you must be able to afford the property. If you are black and have money, you should be able to live anywhere that you a can afford to purchase property. If you are white and have money, you should be able to live anywhere that you can afford to purchase propery. If you are white and can't afford to purchase a certain property, then you will not be able to live in that area. You have to live where you can afford to live. Anyone who disagrees with this simple fact doesn't understand Capitalism, and probably embraces the entitlement mentality that acompanies Socialism.
I understand that a lot of blacks from NYC are moving to the south, but to me the south is not as exciting as NYC, as far as the subway, walkable areas, diff cultures in each neighborhood, stores, etc etc , as NYC was
Williamsburg was a backwater neighborhood some 15-20 yrs ago. older AND poorer polish, italian & irish left/were pushed out and within 5-7 yrs it became a hipster hotbed. i have read that many hipsters were really looking at living in Greenwich village or alphabet city or tribeca but there were either no openings or it was too pricey. so they settled on Williamsburg which is just a short subway ride into Manhattan. the L/J/M lines were some of most underutilized trains 20 yrs ago. now they are teeming with bearded circus freaks wearing chinos & john lennon T-shirts.
I don't want to romanticize the old Bed-Stuy because it wasn't acceptable in a few particular ways. Our way in life should not be we have to live in a high-crime area. And "our" means black folks. It shouldn't mean letting buildings rot and turn into crack houses or just empty decaying spaces full of rodents. It shouldn't have to be about putting up bullet proof plexiglass in fish and chip places. But it should be about fish and chip places, BBQ, rhythm and blues lounges, jazz lounges, Caribbean restaurants, churches, and the stuff that is great in black culture. And murals too. Very colorful murals. That we let places deteriorate without buying them up and getting our craftsman to fix them up is a problem. But here's another problem. You absolutely can connect with some white people and work with them. You had a decent sounding white dude in your video. He got it. Now, he's kind of laid back and gets stuff in his head and all that, but at least he gets it to a point. Try to find some white people or any person of means that can finance sprucing up affordable housing (but make a good deal with them, not a dumb one). And no damned littering. No graffiti. No thugs hanging out and snatching jewelry off people's necks and arms and wherever. No people in front the liquor store harassing women. Tighten it up some kind of way. Because if we don't, gentrification will come knocking at your door. All you need to be is near subways. And a lot of places are near subways. Or at least within a decent walking distance.
This is a great video. It's happening in Jersey City and as a lifelong resident you can feel it. The political powers are just looking the other way. I was hoping to find some examples of areas that were previously Gentrified. People just don't get it. Too many see it as the influx of money is needed but what about the original residents, those who lived in the city when it was at its worst. We survived it. I consider myself econoocially safe but even I feel it. Home doesn't feel like home anymore. I cannot agree that this is only a black and white thing, it an economical repression of peopel though. Unfortunately, the honest truth that the white are the economically powerful race.
+Daniel Ospino Thank you for commenting. There are many in NYC who are now homeless due to gentrification. You can read my blog post about an article in the NY Daily News regarding the increased problem of homelessness in the city: abrooklynblogger.com/2015/09/21/homelessness-in-new-york-city-is-increasing/
+Daniel Ospino - they are supposed to raise the taxes in that city soon. I believe they haven't raised it in like 39 years. If I were you I would be looking into Newark & getting out of there while you still have the chance and the possibility to save some rent money. Their government is also completely corrupt.
+roodles prease The issue is that renters are being displaced. They are being forced to move. Read this NY Times article about increasing homelessness in NYC: www.nytimes.com/interactive/2015/10/21/nyregion/new-york-homeless-people.html?_r=0
Its not about race, its about money.. If there is one person to discriminate against its the hipster :( They have ruined more cities in the world than anyone else... I have no idea where all their money comes from exactly.
This is happening in many parts of the USA . This is currently in the process of occurring in Watts (a small neighborhood in Los Angeles, Ca) . Watts has been a predominantly Black neighborhood since the 1960s . Many of us call this place our home because it's where we have grew up, lived & struggled for years . Currently the government has been planning on & working on demolishing & renovating a place where many people in the neighborhood live which is the Jordan Downs Housing Projects. The problem with this is that it is forcing people to leave the place where they have lived. Once the projects are done being renewed it'll be too expensive for the people who have lived there before to move back in. What they want to do is kick the blacks out of the neighborhood & move the whites back in & this is the only way to do that. Their first step to doing that is to renovate the Jordan Downs Housing Projects, once they have done that they will continue to do the whole neighborhood & also the other Housing Projects in the neighborhood forcing blacks to leave . This is not fair at all because once Watts is done being renewed blacks will have no where to live again & the neighborhood will be completely different.
S S Oh come on. When people start moving back in, they're not gonna care if they're black or white, as long as they got the green. That's the only color developers care about.
Well if you come to parts of Australia or Canada the Asians are doing the same thing to the whites. Its about affluence not race. Its about private property which is a good thing. To buy and sell your own property at your own direction. A vested interest in your property and its surrounding neighborhood. Its ironic because the people who have to move are the people who do not own the property and thus they become advocates of socialism, benefits and subsidization which essentially abolishes private property which was the cause of their misery in the first place, that is they didn't own the property so they had to move. Misery loves company. A ghetto is a place where there is no private property, slightly different in that it is usually due to a loss of civility/lawlessness of the community. There is no point in ownership or taking care of anything because it will just be taken from you or destroyed and thus the surroundings reflect that. Alternatively where there is private property and sound law these places tend to flourish. People have a vested interest in their property and neighborhood, thus the surroundings reflect this. The same dynamic exists in character.
Brooklyn blogger please do a commentary on the book "Battle for Bed Stuy". MLK fought economic equality, and so did JFK, Something that is neglected in the history books.
The brass 3 finger ring would be illegal in Arizona and all the old hoods in Phoenix got eminent domained in the 90's and suburbs and the city have all alternated residents with immigrants filling the inner city
I lived IN London for many years and I saw the CHANGES In the area I lived which was some what a rough area but It was central located, I loved London but I knew with the gentrification and housing prices going up I just wouldn't be able to afford It, at least for now. I realised that and I left and moved up North and was able to purchase something up there, the thing of it is if u cant afford to stick around you have to LIVE, no one Is kicking you out cause if you had ownership you'd be FINE. We as so called black people need to get out of renting and more ownership thats the key.
Why is no one talking about the developers, and Owners of the buildings? - Disproportionately Orthodox & Hasidic Jews - Oh Yeah... You CANNOT say THIS in NYC!
What needs to happen is people need to make sure they're moving to the right neighborhoods for the right reasons. People shouldn't be moving to bed stuy who are rich either of their own doing or due to their parent's money, and shouldn't be buying/contributing to the new more expensive renovated buildings/new buildings that are pushing people out.
That's funny.. Where was all this upgrades and cafes when I was there .. Madison and throop ave. I remember the bullet hole in my door. There is nothing wrong with making the community better. I just wish they were this interested in the nineties .. White people have always been in the sty ...that's not the issue. I just don't want what makes bedsty stand out to disappear Smh
Although i see your point, i don't think it's so much about black people moving out as it is, poor people. And although most of them are black i think it's a mistake to make it about color. People move all the time, it's a sad thing but that's life, isn't it? Someone is always making money and gaining while someone else is always losing money and having to move.
Like the late James from say from California New York Augusta GA.+Chicago+Mami Florida Detroit Michigan+Los Angeles San Diego+ all Major cities since the 2007+08 modern day despression! So what else is new money is The only color that folks really love THE MOST HIGH GOD Yah and Jesus is watching? He knows why not color but money!
Though it's a capitalist country, let's not forget our humanity. “Whenever you feel like criticizing any one...just remember that all the people in this world haven't had the advantages that you've had.” “We must learn to regard people less in the light of what they do or omit to do, and more in the light of what they suffer.”
To be fair, there was a time when these neighborhoods were white. They moved out when we came and now their grandchildren are coming back. Flatbush where my mom grew up was the same way!
This should be a lesson to future African American people. Get your money together and stop putting it all into others pockets. Buy up your own block and take care of your neighborhood. That way it can look how you want it
Bias alert: It isn't about race, it's about money. Don't confuse the two and polarize us more. The bottom line is that it's a shame when ANYONE gets priced out of their changing neighborhoods. Black, White, or any ethnicity. If they own there though, they can stay or sell at the higher rate. NYC and Brooklyn is a mixed racial diversity as it was when I grew up there. All neighborhoods can be mixed, that's the Brooklyn way. We all come together as one community.
White people definitely get priced out of mom and pop stores. A whole lot of old-time white places I knew of in some mixed areas, and some immigrant places, have turned into "coffee shops." I use coffee shop as the type of places gentrifiers put up. They also put up a lot of condos.
Its not a race thing, the entire city is going through the same thing as the economy continues to boom. You could say the same thing about little Italy as that whole neighborhood is being swallowed by Chinatown.
Brooklyn isn't the only culture of NYC that is now so different, also in the Bronx, there used to be mostly blacks, Puerto Ricans, 2nd generation West Indians, Italians etc, ,,,, but now there are middle eastern muslims, africans, south americans etc.... that seem to be the dominant culture there now... It is not the same city AT ALL !!!
@madmann1000 "Because unlike white people, they don't receive funding, deeds or support from the city." is that a fucking joke the problems occur when over 50% are on welfare in the community and little to non are paying taxes lol and its NYC the most progressive liberal city in the USA don't give me that victim racism shit, they are all just LAZY and would rather collect a government check and gangbang instead of getting a real job.
Nice to see people think they know what they are talking about. It's simple, lower income neighborhoods do not receive funds to develop. As an example, we still have black and white schools. White schools receive funding, hence why the schools are better overall.
Gentrification is such an old subject and I don't know why Black people keep talking about it. If you cannot afford to live in NY, move out. I don't know why Black people want to stay in NY, when they can move South where life is much more promising.
Not just black pple complain about gentrification how i know u a outta towna bred New Yorkers that live here our whole lives do which includes white pple
If that blonde moved into my neighborhood, i'd be kinda not that dissapointed. To argue against gentrification and expect anything to happen is such a waste of breath, this is one those things people bag sjws about. good luck
that was funny though!! hahehee oh shit! lol All I know is when the Spanish never discriminated against the discriminating, bigoted, segrgagating polish slithered in and never hired nor let anyone else into what they never planted nor, created nor paved. Basically taking & never sharing and that's a destructive double standard, evil and historically never a good thing as usual.
+bigdaddykurt Check the U.S. Census Bureau and tell me who has more money - whites or blacks. It's an economic and race issue. Unfortunately, race correlates with income in this country. Those that are moving into Bed-Stuy are largely white and those moving out are largely black.
I was born (1971) and raised in bed stuy. There have always been white people living there, they were just as poor as most of the black ppl there. So this isn't about black people not wanting white folks living in bed stuy. It's about wanting to remain in a neighborhood they've called home and not wanting to be pushed out. THAT'S what they (the people of bed stuy) want/don't want. These people made bed stuy their home after rich white people moved away because they didn't want to live around poor (and mostly black) ppl. Now they're trying to push these people out because they want to live there again? And where are these people supposed to go? These new comers don't even care about that. They aren't moving to bed-stuy to JOIN an already established community. They're moving there to takeover and change shit. They don't want to have anything to do with the people who've been living there already. They don't even speak.
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Had any wealthy blacks living in the city stepped up to invest in these neighborhoods when the whites moved out, came in and owned shit and refused to be bought out, this wouldn't have happened. But there's always the well-to-do blacks who never look back at their own so it is what it is.
@@Witchy1976 Please don't act as if it would had been that easy for wealthy blacks to "step up" and invest in these neighborhoods. When whites folks left, so did everything else. You didn't even mention anything about redlining.
100% Real talk Fam.. You have hit this right on the numbers. Baby... I was born (1969) and raised in Bed Stuy, Willoughby ST Between Throop Ave & Sumner Ave, Better known today as Marcus Garvey BLVD... So i'm quite sure that you know the block.. SMH... Tell me or let me Tell you...!
I'm black and this ain't bout race, cash is the name and money is the game. Talk is cheap.
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I agree. It's purely the laws of economics. I understand that it hurts, but that is mostly because humans have a natural instinct to resist change.
no one owns a neighborhood. it's important for the people moving in to be respectful to the neighborhood's present and future, to its population, and to its history.
I don;t understand what people are complaining about. From the 60s-90s, Bed Stuy was a crime-infested run down shithole full of bums too lazy to get a job & unwilling to maintain the buildings & streets of the neighborhood. Now that hard working people are moving in & cleaning the streets up, of course such massive improvements & renovations are gonna draw people in, which in turn inevitably increases real estate prices because of basic laws of supply & demand. The ghetto/welfare people had decades to turn this neighborhood into a place that attracted investment b/c the beautiful architecture was already there to draw people in - but they squandered the opportunity by neglecting their own backyard, literally. This is a lesson that if you misuse it, you lose it.
Exactly. It good to see people who are conscious of this
Must be nice to be a gentrifier going ruining cultures that have been there for Generations . Pushing out hard working people all while getting money from your Rich mommy and daddy in Connecticut or somewhere in the Midwest United States
I just wanted to say that out of all the short documentaries about brooklyns gentrification, yours is the best! I don't understand why this doesn't have more views!! Ppl need to see this! Brooklyn will never b the same 😕
+CoL BuTLeR Thank you for watching!
+A Brooklyn Blogger my friends mom is getting kicked out of her apt in the Bronx, she's lived there for over 30 yrs. The lady that owns the building is selling it , so this topic hits close to home for me. It's terrible what they're doing to the 5 Boroughs.
+CoL BuTLeR I'm sorry to hear about your friend's mother. Gentrification is hitting so many areas in New York City (and elsewhere) and displacing families. It is a real concern for many of us.
+A Brooklyn Blogger thank you , your so sweet. I live on the island , in Suffolk and even by me its gentrifying. I don't think we need 10 coffee shops and multiple yoga places on Main Street It's ridiculous. But I'm just venting lol. You should maybe do another video now that ppl have been living there awhile to see what they really feel about living in Brooklyn. I read a lot of these young hipsters are now moving because it's basically turned into Manhattan . I'd love to see what ppl think now.
Great idea.
A side point: I grew up in China and Singapore. Being from Asian cities, my impression has always been that rich people live near downtown and poorer you are, the further you have to live from the center of everything. It came as a bit of a shock when I learnt that it is the opposite in U.S. (Possibly due to the high rate of car ownership in the U.S. ) To some point, the gentrification process, such as this one in Bed-Stuy, is making American cities more Asian.
Suheti Lee same in europe.
There's another post here that explains this "white flight" cycle (while that term is a bit dated, it still seems appropriate). Basically, we're now at the beginning of the cycle where rich people and young professionals are moving back into the cities from the suburbs. The late 20th century was the opposite of this in most places in the USA, where people would move to the suburbs for a variety of reasons that have already been listed.
I think that younger generations (especially in large, mostly liberal cities) are much more open to diversity and have a much better grasp of modern wealth inequality in general, so the next mass exodus to suburbs may not happen for some time.
I think this issue as a whole could be avoided almost entirely with better long-distance transportation options. Places like Japan have high speed trains, and entrepreneurs like Elon Musk are working on projects like the Hyperloop. If you could get from a location in upstate NY, Long Island, or even Pennsylvania to midtown Manhattan in 10-30 min for an affordable price, I bet you would see plenty of rural development along those routes.
social engineering a big part of it
@@accutus it’s the same way in latin america & europe
I'm from the Bronx, but always admired Brooklyn before gentrification, because it used to be sooooo DOPE, as
far as the people and the culture that was there... now it is more so wack, just like other places, like the Bronx,
Harlem, Lower East Side , etc,,, I miss the "Ole New Yawk"
boo hoo
i was born and raised in Harlem, NY. I grew up in the 70s, 80's and 90s (the real NY). Back then NY was really wild, especially the crack epidemic in the 80s. I now live in a 5000sqft home in northern va outside of DC. I have the city life of DC and the surburban life of northern VA. I love VA especially the fact that you can legally carry a firearm. I would never go back to NYC, especially raise my kids there. Me and my family is not trying to downgrade our lifestyle, as what we would have to do if we lived in NYC. Now when go back to NY i see how dirty it is. Dog shit all on the sidewalk, trash every fuckin where, having to ride that nasty ass subway because you dont wanna pay $50 for parking and shit. Now I say "You can keep that shit, Fuck NYC"
Basically all these new New Yorkers are transplants, They will never know the real NY as I grew up in. The thing with these transplants is that they are willing to pay the price to have that NY experience. And if it means raising rent because thats what the housing market dictates .....then so be it. Hey, thats business. get over it.!!
I feel the same way. New York isn't what it used to be when I was growing up in Brooklyn back in the 80's
JC said you can get a modern 1bd in DC for $1200 lol who's man's is this?? Thanks for the laugh
Robert Robertson 😂😂
Really now all you have to deal with is good old phony smiles racism and hoping that your kid want be call that N word my family is still there and bedford-stuyvesant holding it down with a beautiful brown stone that they will never sell out
dorothy hall amen sis
It's just a cycle of white flight. Rich people move out the city because the crime, the poor in the city, but when they move too far, the city starts losing its stability in the economy and job market, so the city will do many things to attract those rich people to move back, like gentrification. As the rich people move back to the city, they force the poor people to move out because each time rich people move back, they will bring up the land and property value, which means everything becomes more expensive and the poor people can't afford which anymore. When the poor people move out the city, they will move in to the suburb where is used to be dominated by the rich people. Poor people move in the suburb, they will bring down the land value, which pushes the rich people to move in back to the city..... This cycle will never stop unless we fix the unequal social resources and wealth distribution.
Afanlynness very much true
Afanlynness nyc needs the tax base for the police pension. The children of suburban parents are the best people to exploit. Their parents left them with a trust fund. The real estate investors see this. In less than 10 years the children of suburban children became broke. That is why many of them moved to Brooklyn and Hoboken NJ. Now, the same thing is happening. My concern is what’s going to happen to them after they turn 50? They will not have the same rent subsidies that blacks had in the projects.
Afanlynness wa
The cities have the most jobs. A lot of times people with high paying jobs who live in the burbs have to do long commutes to the city to get to work. The rich are moving back to the city partly because everything is a walking distance in the city like your supermarket, deli, restaurant etc.
Neighborhood dynamics have been going on long before Bed-Stuy got gentrified.
My grandparents, dirt poor Europeans, moved into in the Carroll Gardens neighborhood in the early 1900's. It was a place of poor working people. Maybe 20 (30?) years ago Manhattan office workers discoverd the neighborhood. Now real estate is selling at $3M-$7m per building. Poor people don't live there any more.
I also saw this on Nantucket Island, off the Massachusetts coast, when we visited.
The 4th-5th generation natives could no longer afford to live there because rich folks were (are) paying incredible prices for lots and homes. There was a lot of tension (during our week-long visit) between the natives and the new residents. Natives had to sell out, move to the mainland and ferry into work back on the island every day. Their familes had lived there for 150 years (maybe more). News and magazine articles saw no end in sight.
Money buys what it wants and the world shuffles around accordingly.
Has nothing to do with race.
Don't know how I came by this video a couple days ago!! Nicely done!
+SimplyCin Thank you so much!
In the southeast section of San Francisco, there is an area called Bayview-Hunters Point. During World War Two, the neighborhood became an African American neighborhood. Sometime in the late 1980s a modest form of gentrification of Bayview started to occur but it wasn't affluent whites moving in in the Bayview. Rather it was immigrant Chinese families that pooled their monies to buy up family homes. Additionally there was a smaller number of Hispanics that also began to displace the African Americans. It was thought that, given the rate Chinese were moving into Bayview, the neighborhood would become defacto wholly Chinese sometime in the 2000s. Well it hasn't happened _yet_, but the slow movement of African Americans out of the Bayview nieghborhood continues to grind on and it is pretty inevitable that the Bayview will become pretty much a Chinese neighborhood with a not insubstantial Hispanic population. The other neighborhood I mentioned, Hunters Point already has a large Filipino and Chinese and Hispanic presence, but the African American presence is holding better than in the Bayview.
Most African Americans being displaced out of the Bayview (and a smaller extent, Hunters Point) neighborhood are moving out of San Francisco and heading northeast of the City to the suburban towns of Fairfield and Suisun City and Antioch and Pittsburg where new suburban "black ghettos" are forming.
lukebccb The process of gentrification is stirring and can involve any race. The source of it is of course monetary. Those who have more means can oust those with less means out of any given neighborhood.
ace98777 . Thank you so much. I agree that Bed-Stuy is a central location and therefore desirable. The issue is that those of the lower economic class are being pushed out of the neighborhood and that's unfair. Some have so many memories of growing up in the neighborhood and now have to say good-bye.
Yes it is sad and painful that the working class renters live at the whim of the real estate market. At least the home owners get a nice big check as they are pushed out. Social lives are wrecked and across the country it is getting harder to find affordable housing. The south may still be relatively cheap but the wages are also a little lower. The problem is that those brownstones in Brooklyn are so beautiful that everyone wants one. Even I would like one but then I guess I would be come part of the problem. Again great video Nicole!
Nicole Grossett What would the black community say if a white 'reporter' went around a neighborhood asking it's residents how they felt about the recent influx of black/colored people?
Ill answer, you'd call them racist and kick up a fuss. So whats this video then?
PS - I'm colored too and though there are arguments which can definitely be justified about whats going in Bedstuy, you really didn't concentrate on them,
IYC0370 Thanks for watching the video. Firstly, I'm not a reporter. I had an interest in finding out why whites were moving so rapidly into Bedford-Stuyvesant. Therefore, I decided to do a mini-documentary. If you want to concentrate on other arguments, please feel free to film your own documentary. Thanks.
Nicole Grossett I've just been to NY Brooklyn on holiday, I stayed in Brownsville, Forte Greene, Bed Stuy and I must say I have no problem with a mixed community, there was a time in Brooklyn when you could buy a house out right for next to nothing, but most people couldn't be bothered because rent was dirt cheap with no commitment and they unfortunately did not have any foresight... apart from the smart ones. Now people who lived in the suburbs want to move nearer to the city so they can get to work and they can afford to buy the properties. Folks have to realize, if you don't own your house , its not your block and it does not matter how many generations of your family have lived there you can be put out tomorrow if the land lord feels like it. Holler at me and we will reason. Good documentary by the way, me and my people was talking about the same thing and I was raising the same point.
+agie55 when was brooklyn cheap, in the 70s?
Its a good change of pace to set it not as a white man v. black man situation, but a class/money issue.
Even tourists have started to visit. I'm from England (and I'm white) and went to stay on Macon Street just a few blocks away from the Utica subway stop. I have to say it's a gorgeous neighbourhood and would definitely recommend it to any of my friends/family who are planning on visiting New York, but aren't too sure if they want to stay in Manhattan. I will say one thing though, me and my two friends I was with decided we wouldn't walk the streets at night. But that was more to do with us being tourists and not being familiar with the area.
Hello Steve. You are quite right, many tourists visit the area and share your love for the neighborhood. Bed-Stuy is really changing.
Nobody has to live in a bubble. If prosperity comes to an area it can be shared to accommodate everyone. Capitalists are keen to play up the idea that Capitalism has raised more people out of poverty than Communism or Socialism. Gentrification, however, seems to put this notion to the test with less than satisfactory marks for good faith, fairness, and equality. The matter of affordable housing should be parallel with revitalization-really as a no brainer.
Very nice job Nicole. Questions are very fair. Once the crime problem was tackled it was a matter of time before middle and upper income people started moving in .The central location of Bed-Stuy in the city is very desirable.
I'm from Arkansas I'm black I visited bedstuy and went to a block party last year on Malcolm x and hasley st it was dope I want to move to bedstuy but it's too damn expensive
Since its foundation the united states economics have largely favored members of a particular group! The original inhabitants had their land stolen and those brought by force have not been given an opportunity to have a fair chance! How can you call such place " the land of freedom"?
Dont blame the people who are moving and being taken advantage off by greedy brokers, blame the owners and real estate brokers who are setting the requirements for those overpriced apartments which is comparable to Africans selling their own people as slaves to other countries.
NYC is one the few places where you will find someone who's dumb enough to pay an arm and a leg for a small one bedroom apartment located in the ghetto where in other states you can rent an entire house for those kind of prices.
Interesting point Dave Yang
Dave Yang things to change and yet Improvement is there
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Your absolutely right Dave.
sure, bed stuy has gotten a lil bit lighter over the years but its still overwhelmingly dark.
At 12:42 the guy with the green tie is basically saying that the government needs to do something. That's absolutely the wrong thing to do. When the government gets involved they tend to force things upon the people. When that happens, it never turns out as expected. Keeping the government out of everybody's business is the better option. Let capitalism and competition dictate the outcome.
Black Panther has made 700 million after two weekends. The money is there.
I hardly see any black businesses in Brooklyn anymore, and i think its because of gentrification aside from maybe the Flatbush section of Brooklyn.
if you want to stay in your hood you need to get a job and buy a home. Otherwise you get priced out one day.
Even if you buy a home & are part of a NYC community there doesn't seem to be security bcz there is a hound with more money trying to get you to sell cheap. Some people don't know the value of their properties. If you sell you can't come back. We can't live in peace. Such pressure.
Madam feeding the answers to the interviewees makes a poor doc.
People wanna move into Brooklyn because of the culture and the vibe the city has. Well who do you think put that culture in and give it that edgy vibe? Blacks and Hispanics lol. Without them the city loses its culture and edge. Now it looks more commercialized.
Exactly !!
if by edge u crime yea its loosing its edge lmao
Yung Pedro Πατάτας. The actual culture that was there too... Not necessarily the crime...but the vibe
fuk a vibe the hood is depressing its been 30 years now blacks and hispanics neglected their neighbourhoods and now its time to move u probably aint know much about that tho nicole stay in the burbs
Yung Pedro Πατάτας. Your obviously not from NYC... , because the hoods here were not depressing at all , but lively and exciting. You honestly don't know where I live so yr comment doesn't apply to me
Love the documentary! The downtown core of Nashville, TN is noticing many of these condos being built. In my opinion, with affordable housing not being readily available its going to create another housing crisis 10-15 years down the line.
***** Thank you. Honestly, I don't know what the future holds for the poor.
Actually this happens all over the world, especially now the interest rates are low for years already. The rich are buying houses in the city center as an investmen in cities like New York, London, Paris and Amsterdam. The people that were originally looking for a house in the city center are now looking for houses in other neighbourhoods because they can no longer afford the expensive houses in the center. Manhattan is really expensive for almost everyone. Manhattan is nog the playground of the rich and the tourists.
Interesting video. Anybody should be forced to leave their house that way.
I use to teach in Bed-Stuy on Macon. The restates call this neighborhood Stuyvesant Heights. Nice doc.
+CINEMATIQmag TV Thanks for watching.
I liked your video (it was very nice to hear local's viewpoint) but I actually don't think gentrification has to do with race at all. It's simply because so many people want to live in Manhattan but many cannot afford it. Bed-Stuy is an affordable neighborhood that seems to be pretty safe. It also has transportation that takes you into the city in no time. Because so many people are wanting to move in, prices begin to raise. Also as the neighborhood becomes more popular stores start to open up which only quickens the gentrification process. Yes, I do believe race-income inequality does exist and agree it's a huge issue in our society. But imo "supply and demand" is the real problem when it comes to gentrifying.
+Victoria Frank Thanks for commenting.
You know people need to stop saying neighborhoods are known for violence because violence happens everywhere. The places do not need to be associated with the actions of individuals
Nice documentary of an interesting neighborhood. Wonder the moment these houses were built many years ago this was already a so called 'black neighborhood'. Don't think so. : )
Very informative. Thank you for this.
It's not about race, it's about location and money. People who have enough money to live there will, because renovating old properties is fanancially beneficial to those who have the resources to do so. Those who don't have the resources will move out.
Some people resent the change brought on by Gentrification, because they have a lack of resources. They tend to have a sense of entitlement. They aren't living in reality. We live in a Capitalist society. If you want to live in a certain property, you must be able to afford the property.
If you are black and have money, you should be able to live anywhere that you a can afford to purchase property. If you are white and have money, you should be able to live anywhere that you can afford to purchase propery. If you are white and can't afford to purchase a certain property, then you will not be able to live in that area. You have to live where you can afford to live.
Anyone who disagrees with this simple fact doesn't understand Capitalism, and probably embraces the entitlement mentality that acompanies Socialism.
If people didn't feel safe they would not move there.
race baiting question lmao
I understand that a lot of blacks from NYC are moving to the south, but to me the south is not as exciting as NYC, as far as the subway, walkable areas, diff cultures in each neighborhood, stores, etc etc , as NYC was
You're clearly not from NYC... You are the problem
You call the train the subway. Go back to Kansas Dorothy
Williamsburg was a backwater neighborhood some 15-20 yrs ago. older AND poorer polish, italian & irish left/were pushed out and within 5-7 yrs it became a hipster hotbed. i have read that many hipsters were really looking at living in Greenwich village or alphabet city or tribeca but there were either no openings or it was too pricey. so they settled on Williamsburg which is just a short subway ride into Manhattan. the L/J/M lines were some of most underutilized trains 20 yrs ago. now they are teeming with bearded circus freaks wearing chinos & john lennon T-shirts.
I don't want to romanticize the old Bed-Stuy because it wasn't acceptable in a few particular ways. Our way in life should not be we have to live in a high-crime area. And "our" means black folks. It shouldn't mean letting buildings rot and turn into crack houses or just empty decaying spaces full of rodents. It shouldn't have to be about putting up bullet proof plexiglass in fish and chip places. But it should be about fish and chip places, BBQ, rhythm and blues lounges, jazz lounges, Caribbean restaurants, churches, and the stuff that is great in black culture. And murals too. Very colorful murals. That we let places deteriorate without buying them up and getting our craftsman to fix them up is a problem.
But here's another problem. You absolutely can connect with some white people and work with them. You had a decent sounding white dude in your video. He got it. Now, he's kind of laid back and gets stuff in his head and all that, but at least he gets it to a point. Try to find some white people or any person of means that can finance sprucing up affordable housing (but make a good deal with them, not a dumb one). And no damned littering. No graffiti. No thugs hanging out and snatching jewelry off people's necks and arms and wherever. No people in front the liquor store harassing women. Tighten it up some kind of way. Because if we don't, gentrification will come knocking at your door. All you need to be is near subways. And a lot of places are near subways. Or at least within a decent walking distance.
This is a great video. It's happening in Jersey City and as a lifelong resident you can feel it. The political powers are just looking the other way. I was hoping to find some examples of areas that were previously Gentrified. People just don't get it. Too many see it as the influx of money is needed but what about the original residents, those who lived in the city when it was at its worst. We survived it. I consider myself econoocially safe but even I feel it. Home doesn't feel like home anymore. I cannot agree that this is only a black and white thing, it an economical repression of peopel though. Unfortunately, the honest truth that the white are the economically powerful race.
+Daniel Ospino Thank you for commenting. There are many in NYC who are now homeless due to gentrification. You can read my blog post about an article in the NY Daily News regarding the increased problem of homelessness in the city: abrooklynblogger.com/2015/09/21/homelessness-in-new-york-city-is-increasing/
+Daniel Ospino - they are supposed to raise the taxes in that city soon. I believe they haven't raised it in like 39 years. If I were you I would be looking into Newark & getting out of there while you still have the chance and the possibility to save some rent money. Their government is also completely corrupt.
its so sad... bye bye crime welcome rising property values
+roodles prease The issue is that renters are being displaced. They are being forced to move. Read this NY Times article about increasing homelessness in NYC: www.nytimes.com/interactive/2015/10/21/nyregion/new-york-homeless-people.html?_r=0
Its not about race, its about money.. If there is one person to discriminate against its the hipster :( They have ruined more cities in the world than anyone else... I have no idea where all their money comes from exactly.
This is happening in many parts of the USA . This is currently in the process of occurring in Watts (a small neighborhood in Los Angeles, Ca) . Watts has been a predominantly Black neighborhood since the 1960s . Many of us call this place our home because it's where we have grew up, lived & struggled for years . Currently the government has been planning on & working on demolishing & renovating a place where many people in the neighborhood live which is the Jordan Downs Housing Projects. The problem with this is that it is forcing people to leave the place where they have lived. Once the projects are done being renewed it'll be too expensive for the people who have lived there before to move back in. What they want to do is kick the blacks out of the neighborhood & move the whites back in & this is the only way to do that. Their first step to doing that is to renovate the Jordan Downs Housing Projects, once they have done that they will continue to do the whole neighborhood & also the other Housing Projects in the neighborhood forcing blacks to leave . This is not fair at all because once Watts is done being renewed blacks will have no where to live again & the neighborhood will be completely different.
S S Watts is a Latino community, the largest black community in the LA Area, Ladera Heights and View Park is a upper wealthy middle class community
S S Oh come on. When people start moving back in, they're not gonna care if they're black or white, as long as they got the green. That's the only color developers care about.
Well if you come to parts of Australia or Canada the Asians are doing the same thing to the whites. Its about affluence not race. Its about private property which is a good thing. To buy and sell your own property at your own direction. A vested interest in your property and its surrounding neighborhood.
Its ironic because the people who have to move are the people who do not own the property and thus they become advocates of socialism, benefits and subsidization which essentially abolishes private property which was the cause of their misery in the first place, that is they didn't own the property so they had to move. Misery loves company.
A ghetto is a place where there is no private property, slightly different in that it is usually due to a loss of civility/lawlessness of the community. There is no point in ownership or taking care of anything because it will just be taken from you or destroyed and thus the surroundings reflect that. Alternatively where there is private property and sound law these places tend to flourish. People have a vested interest in their property and neighborhood, thus the surroundings reflect this.
The same dynamic exists in character.
iampennochio It’s never a problem when non whites do it to whites. It’s only a problem when white people do it to non white people. Don’t u see?
some are livin in a van down by the river
Brooklyn blogger please do a commentary on the book "Battle for Bed Stuy". MLK fought economic equality, and so did JFK,
Something that is neglected in the history books.
Great Job!
Thanks deny3638!
The brass 3 finger ring would be illegal in Arizona and all the old hoods in Phoenix got eminent domained in the 90's and suburbs and the city have all alternated residents with immigrants filling the inner city
keep up the good work.
+Joaquin Cotler Thank you.
I lived IN London for many years and I saw the CHANGES In the area I lived which was some what a rough area but It was central located, I loved London but I knew with the gentrification and housing prices going up I just wouldn't be able to afford It, at least for now. I realised that and I left and moved up North and was able to purchase something up there, the thing of it is if u cant afford to stick around you have to LIVE, no one Is kicking you out cause if you had ownership you'd be FINE. We as so called black people need to get out of renting and more ownership thats the key.
Great Job
Thank you!
Why is no one talking about the developers, and Owners of the buildings? - Disproportionately Orthodox & Hasidic Jews - Oh Yeah... You CANNOT say THIS in NYC!
Rather have jooz or blacks.?..most say jooz
What the name of that song and artist in the end?
Great Doc
Whatever the reason, NYC is number one in homeless, it's 60000 now. Case closed.
Robertson Tirado Up to 70.000 now.
I stay in the south, blacks up north people are welcome down here...way cheaper, and you can enjoy the nice weather.Who wants to be cold all the time
+21godson Brothers got a bad rep down in the south.
+21godson we love the cold weather and the city cant leave
This was nice.
Typo. They fought economic inequality, irony that I'm typing on the A train going through Bed Stuy.
intense change in the world!!!!!!!!!
What needs to happen is people need to make sure they're moving to the right neighborhoods for the right reasons. People shouldn't be moving to bed stuy who are rich either of their own doing or due to their parent's money, and shouldn't be buying/contributing to the new more expensive renovated buildings/new buildings that are pushing people out.
That's funny.. Where was all this upgrades and cafes when I was there .. Madison and throop ave. I remember the bullet hole in my door. There is nothing wrong with making the community better. I just wish they were this interested in the nineties .. White people have always been in the sty ...that's not the issue. I just don't want what makes bedsty stand out to disappear Smh
maybe it was a hipster lol
Great video
i heard spike lee is on suicide watch after watching this video. on that note the video was nicely done.
lmfaoo.."why dont you go back to Massachusetts!!?"
"...I was born in Brooklyn..."
Same thing in Williamsburg...
Although i see your point, i don't think it's so much about black people moving out as it is, poor people. And although most of them are black i think it's a mistake to make it about color. People move all the time, it's a sad thing but that's life, isn't it? Someone is always making money and gaining while someone else is always losing money and having to move.
Guy at 2:29 is spot on.
Guy at @2:08 was speaking the truth.
Man the song at the beginning was rough 🤦🏻♂️
Is either stay hot or stay cold smh
Like the late James from say from California New York Augusta GA.+Chicago+Mami Florida Detroit Michigan+Los Angeles San Diego+ all Major cities since the 2007+08 modern day despression! So what else is new money is The only color that folks really love THE MOST HIGH GOD Yah and Jesus is watching? He knows why not color but money!
Crime is so much desirable than gentrification.
I suppose that's what you got out of watching the video. I suppose you missed the part about individuals being kicked out of their homes.
A Brooklyn Blogger Well isn't that capitalism and the free market? Isn't the United States founded on these principles?
Though it's a capitalist country, let's not forget our humanity. “Whenever you feel like criticizing any one...just remember that all the people in this world haven't had the advantages that you've had.” “We must learn to regard people less in the light of what they do or omit to do, and more in the light of what they suffer.”
A Brooklyn Blogger Unfortunately those highly ideal sentiments are not applied to other peoples in faraway lands.
This is the land I live in, so I can speak about what I've observed here.
To be fair, there was a time when these neighborhoods were white. They moved out when we came and now their grandchildren are coming back. Flatbush where my mom grew up was the same way!
This should be a lesson to future African American people. Get your money together and stop putting it all into others pockets. Buy up your own block and take care of your neighborhood. That way it can look how you want it
Bed stuy soft as hell now
Bias alert: It isn't about race, it's about money. Don't confuse the two and polarize us more. The bottom line is that it's a shame when ANYONE gets priced out of their changing neighborhoods. Black, White, or any ethnicity. If they own there though, they can stay or sell at the higher rate. NYC and Brooklyn is a mixed racial diversity as it was when I grew up there. All neighborhoods can be mixed, that's the Brooklyn way. We all come together as one community.
White people definitely get priced out of mom and pop stores. A whole lot of old-time white places I knew of in some mixed areas, and some immigrant places, have turned into "coffee shops." I use coffee shop as the type of places gentrifiers put up. They also put up a lot of condos.
Change is the only constant...
It really not this easy to deal with Gentrification but it'll take time. I'm making a docuseries about this neighborhood that gentrifying.
They doing it Crown Heights as well.
Like that last song. Wha's call?
Its not a race thing, the entire city is going through the same thing as the economy continues to boom. You could say the same thing about little Italy as that whole neighborhood is being swallowed by Chinatown.
This is not a race issue. It’s more about laws of economics.
The doc was good 👍 but the tune, not so good. You were able to get some good interviews.
if it pushes out crime...drugs and gangs..i welcome it
How come Hipsters don't move to Italian or Russian Neighborhoods? Can't deal with the in your face culture?
BK is soft now.
you're soft
Brooklyn isn't the only culture of NYC that is now so different, also in the Bronx, there used to be mostly blacks, Puerto Ricans, 2nd generation West Indians, Italians etc, ,,,, but now there are middle eastern muslims, africans, south americans etc.... that seem to be the dominant culture there now... It is not the same city AT ALL !!!
I’m from Do or DIE, not this new one
That dude at 13:30 is so full of BS. He said nothing of substance. He's an empty vessel.
John Simmons true typical man bun!
be near friends must be lucky to have that luxury of choice! boooo! unfair! in the words of Al Pacino!
Anyone knows that opening song ?
Gentrified
Where's that mural at the end of the video located?
Throop Ave
Why did the original residents not take care and build up the community for themselves?
Because unlike white people, they don't receive funding, deeds or support from the city.
@madmann1000 "Because unlike white people, they don't receive funding, deeds or support from the city." is that a fucking joke the problems occur when over 50% are on welfare in the community and little to non are paying taxes lol and its NYC the most progressive liberal city in the USA don't give me that victim racism shit, they are all just LAZY and would rather collect a government check and gangbang instead of getting a real job.
Nice to see people think they know what they are talking about. It's simple, lower income neighborhoods do not receive funds to develop. As an example, we still have black and white schools. White schools receive funding, hence why the schools are better overall.
@ Marcus Glover oh great yea lets throw money at the problem. then they will have brand new desks while not giving a shit.
Billy Blunder did you attend a innercity school?
Gentrification is such an old subject and I don't know why Black people keep talking about it. If you cannot afford to live in NY, move out. I don't know why Black people want to stay in NY, when they can move South where life is much more promising.
It looks like they are being herded Mr. Frank Cullen.
Not just black pple complain about gentrification how i know u a outta towna bred New Yorkers that live here our whole lives do which includes white pple
If that blonde moved into my neighborhood, i'd be kinda not that dissapointed. To argue against gentrification and expect anything to happen is such a waste of breath, this is one those things people bag sjws about. good luck
its a mess
We call them phony new yorkers
You gotta love the typical white girl accent of the blonde chick..."ya I like always wanted to live in like a brown stone."
objectivuser85 would you prefer ebonics and a head roll? "eyes gonna get me sum welfares."
Henny Oldman omg!! Yes! That'd be so fuc*ing funny!!!
that was funny though!! hahehee oh shit! lol All I know is when the Spanish never discriminated against the discriminating, bigoted, segrgagating polish slithered in and never hired nor let anyone else into what they never planted nor, created nor paved. Basically taking & never sharing and that's a destructive double standard, evil and historically never a good thing as usual.
why are you making this a black and white issue???? this is a rich and poor issue.
+bigdaddykurt Check the U.S. Census Bureau and tell me who has more money - whites or blacks. It's an economic and race issue. Unfortunately, race correlates with income in this country. Those that are moving into Bed-Stuy are largely white and those moving out are largely black.
9:15 hate the way she talks