I left NYC years ago because I couldnt find affordable housing. 10 yrs later I see here a 1bd rm for 2,700? a month How the heck do you survive now? Bedford Stuyvesant, Crown Heights, Harlem, Williamsburg, Bushwick, Fort Greene, Park Slope, Flatbush, Washington Heights, Manhattanville, where 99.999 African Carribbean and African American ( black and spanish).
I was shocked to see these so-called Movie Stars living in my old Neighborhood in Bed Stuy walking their dogs . Years ago you couldn't get em to fly over Bed Stuy . It's disgusting
You know how many people have owned homes has nothing to do with it. If you are not the right income bracket and color they will force you to move out what do you own the property or not
Issue is that we, as people of color, need to push to own our own businesses, spend at our own businesses, buy our own homes and rent to one another, at decent prices, and control the streets. Unfortunately our minds are caught up in phones, sneakers and other junk, rather than on power and control. As long as we sleep, we can't complain.
cry racism all you want but the crime is these neighborhoods has dropped dramatically as the prices have increased. that's not a coincidence. nobody is going to pay a lot of money to live in some hell ridden slum.
You guys are mindless dotes. Reason why banks don't give colored people loans is bad credit. Not because of racism. White people get the same thing. So in order to survive is diversifying your wealth at 21 or below and build your credit. Then start a steady business while also renting out homes. Stop spending on dumb shoes and cars that depreciate value haha.
I also lived on Jefferson about a block or two from you from 74 to 97..I don't like to visit anymore & if it wasn't for family..I probably wouldn't..nothing's the same anymore and it's sad...the memories are in my mind..but the visual is gone...☹
I am white, and would never do this to my black Christian brother. Christians Black, White, Latino or ther races need to work together against unknown dark forces.
How are the new immigrants: African, Mexican, South American, and Indians able to afford to live in NYC , if the African Americans and Latinos that have been there, can't ?
People hate on blacks way to much, they are such kind people from my time in Kenya to all the time I lived in Bronx, black people have been such a privilege to be around.
Blacks came back into this community, and the whites left, and it became poor, but in reality much like Harlem it was like a Black Wall Street despite the poverty
Can't wait for part 2. This is heart breaking. I lived in Kingston ave in Crown Heights in a brownstone and was approached the same way by a white man.
thank you for the feedback, as well as watching. there is an amazing phenomenon taking place in Bed-Stuy, as well as many other neighborhoods in the surrounding areas that have been labeled "poor" historically. this message needs to be spread please share this.
The same thing is happening in Philly. West Philly has had that happen with the colleges buying properties and selling low interest loans to students or alum. They in turn displace older blacks who have been there for 70 years. It is happening also in North Philly where the students are acquiring the Brownstones and brick townhouses in North Philly. When I lived in that area, they sold for @ $15-25K and now they are over $500K
Technically what happens Jews come in buying properties for $300K. The investors mostly Jews consider the house a shell. They flip the house adding $500K to 700K in upgrades and rehabilitation to the structure and amenities of the home. Upscale stainless appliances, parking, gutting replacing all the mechanicals, adding value added upscale fittings. By the time they finish the whole upgraded house is worth the 1.3 Million Dollar asking price. If black people are smart they can haggle for a much higher selling price maybe up to $700K. Problem is $700K is nothing when it comes to living in New York City. $700K might be a fair price but that keeps you out of the homeless shelter for maybe 5 to 7 years. THEN WHAT? You still have to live and with no house in New York City its over. The fat lady has sung! You think it is just happening up in NYC. Dude that same mess is happening in Baltimore too. BALTIMORE which so many people think is a hell hole. People think Baltimore they think dope addicts and The Wire TV series. Let me tell you all the bad press Baltimore gets is for a reason. The money men are coming through poor areas buying property for true Monopoly game prices. I'm talking pennies on the dollar. Then they rehab the houses and sell them for prices starting at the mid $300K's OR they buy a block of run down houses knock them down then build one BIG new building of apartments or condos with sky high rents or sale prices. Baltimore's black community is being very slowly gutted in ways so sneaky most folk don't even know they are being eased out of the city.
i dont know why we had Hip-Hop artist say they love Brooklyn not buy them properties n build back up they Community. SMH got the fi acial power but dont use it for good. Selfish.
15:00 Listen to how systemic discrimination works. The insurance companies suddenly want to come in to 'check out' the house. They find something that makes the property worth less or not inhabitable. This never went on.
Instead of moving to the south, I wish that blacks from NYC, could move to another city,,, I'm from NYC and will miss the tall buildings in Manhattan, the diff style apartments through out the boroughs, the subway system, the shopping we had !!!! A LOT
Right!! Bc they are coming down here to the south and voting on knocking trees down and building more buildings trying to recreate their old neighborhoods and it’s sucks they are sucking the life out the south.
no you're not. you could have kept your homes by buying them dirt cheap years ago.but people chose not to then want to cry when their value sky rockets and intelligent people come in and make money. you waste your time crying while smart people make money.
There is unfortunately the biggest lobbyists and political donors for political office are wealthy real estate brokers and property developers who utilize monetary influence to create "zoning laws" which is nothing more than a back door land grab
This is what they are doing to my hood Detroit !! Brewster projects, cass corridor, Woodbridge , corktown , Indian village, Jefferson . All of it . Hurts my soul
+Beautiful Brown i will check that out unfortunately i handle most of the administration from this page from my phone, so i wasn't able to see this comment until i logged on to my computer, send me an email, i see your passion and knowledge related to this subject, id like to have a more in depth discussion with you if that is possible, my email is in the description
Its not a race issue in my opinion.Its a money issue,a power issue a wealth issue.You have money you have power and you can buy anything with money.I feel bad for the people that dont have money and are being forced they are being pirated by these predators.The neighhood people should get together and unite as one put all their resources together and start something to change the situation.
I think that the same thing has happened not only to African -Americans, but to elderly Italian-Americans, German-Americans and Polish-Americans in my city and in other cities. They were moved out of their homes to have inner loops of expressway to go through their neighborhood , or to put upscale modern condos in an artificially planned neighborhood community with identical condos built next to each other row upon row with built in stores and supermarkets in the same condo community . These communities are characterless and lack history . We are losing old architecture,history and family businesses that existed for over one hundred years. They are put out of business by franchised and chain national brand retail stores, restaurants, and other businesses. There is only one ethnic Jewish Bakery left in my large city. The only Italian Bakery sold out to a non- Italian group who don't know the recipes of half the Italian specialties. There are no more neighborhood Polish Bakeries , German Bakeries, Family Soul Food Restaurants and German Restaurants. There are only two or three family Italian Restaurants. A famous nightspot that hosted talented jazz musicians went by the way of "urban renewal." They have a yearly reunion now. The infamous, character-filled Front Street with Rattlesnake Pete's , old time market, restaurants with the first automates and the magnificent RKO Theater were all plowed down to make parking lots for Kodak and Kodak Park. It has been years since Kodak moved its headquarters out west and a large majority of employees have lost their jobs through corporate downsizing. From that area to High Falls, there is just mile after mile of deserted downtown wilderness of empty parking lots and empty lots with the exception of the Coca cola Bottling Plant. It is appalling: that people lost their family homes and backyards, and neighborhoods and neighbors were split up over "progress" and urban renewal which never happened.! How can we honor cultural diversity, (which seems no more than a p.c. modern buzz word -which is given lip service only) when neighborhood and family establishments are replaced by national chain businesses and entire neighborhoods are demolished with neighbor people displaced as collateral damage in high power politicians' and businesses' quest for progress or real estate for profitable business?
So who is the rude or angry person who crossed out 1/3 of my factual account of my city? There was nothing demeaning or discriminatory in what I wrote ! I know my city better than you do.
Let’s back track a bit there...the wealth issue is a race issue. Minorities do not receive the same opportunities as non poc’s, both socially, economically and especially in terms of education (funding for low income neighborhood schools etc.) (And don’t get me wrong the black community could be doing way more to achieve higher ranks) which paves the way for non poc’s to receive far greater financial benefits, in my eyes, this most definitely ties into race.
+The Survival Guide - very interesting, down in florida its seems like our people are just vanishing. ive seen where developers bought property with housing structures on them, then turn around and level everything. only to build it back up with new construction. one last thing. whereever there are people of color there is some form of gentrification going on.
+gcforTRUTH what's happening is we are being pushed back towards the south in search for affordable living conditions, but the reality is that all major cities in this country are facing the same problems. Greed, Money and Power have always ruled.
+Beautiful Brown I watched this happened with the areas surrounding Bedford Stuyvesant, in Bushwick and Crown Heights. Economic Power has the ability to change the landscape of any geographical area, it's like colonization but instead of guns and disease, they utilize the Banks and Political power.
Maybe it's me but i don't feel any kind of way about this, when we had it we took it for granted (like most things) and then we change happens we cry and say it's their fault when in reality it's ours.
WE us people of our community need to come together and fight and work for what is our and not to be talk our of or price out of our inheritance. I live in Bed-Stuy. just east of Bushwick all my life. My father ran a business and own a brown stone since the 1960's and 1970's and we have the inheritance still to this day. We are not going to sale unless the price goes up in the millions or more. We must stay strong and not to back down let people of other race play us as we are stupid and naïve.
Eventually your gonna get your ass beat and your face stomped and you'll run home crying back to Colorado and your parents will have to stop paying your rent bitch 😂😂😂😁
Happens. Is there some kind of mixed-income housing laws in NYC for new developments or rezoned residential properties? In the UK when a residential building goes up a certain amount has to be allocated to low income public housing, depending on where and how the building was funded. (Not that it ever works out as it is supposed to)
There are laws such as this that exist but because of the political and financial influence of many lobbyists which happen to be some of the biggest power brokers in the areas of real estate, property management, and real estate development its easy to see why certain areas become gentrified. Capitalism is not about equality, so when there is an opportunity for financial gain in most cases its not about race, but income level and financial mobility.
Well done. And you have addressed some very important issues. The same thing is happening in London UK. And if you look at areas like Brixton and Ladbroke Grove that were predominantly black in the 1950's to the 1990's the exact same thing is happing as what's going on in Bedsty. Fight The Power.
lemmieatit I think you should revisit your comment. Maybe you should try and access the situation young black men and boys where going though living in Britain. And the point about black people TAKING white mens jobs, so black people coming into Britain have the ability to take white mens skilled jobs maybe white men ain't as skilled as your making out.
no more black neighborhoods no more spanish,italian,german,irish im eastern european from ridgewood and what maked ny so great was the melting pot of different cultures and different neighborhoods
Interesting story... went to NYC for the first time in my life about 4 years ago. Wanted to look at the bodega that Biggie freestyled in front of. Found it. Now an organic food grocery store lol
+Brooklyn December Clinton hills at that time was still pretty mixed income, I went to JHS 113 in the 90's and the demographic was poor and middle class.
There should be a third part where the same building being bought and resold do not get resold to minorities. Its a shame what happening in NYC. I came home from school and cant even live in my neighborhood. I can afford the prices but I am not the demographic they want in their new properties. Bed-Stuy, Bushwick, Williamsburg, Crown Heights down. East New York next.
I've thought of doing the same thing but it's happening so fast brother it's sickening. What I can do is show you where most of the retail space has been rented out and they have everything opening that would never be in the neighborhood if it wasnt for gentrification European Coffee Shops, Juice Bars, Organic Supermarkets, Thai Restaurants. it's ridiculous, and you are right ENY is next Deblasio's administration just laid out the zoning laws, next the developers move in and push the poor people out
+jim beam are u actually here and experiencing it or have u? just wondering because u seem to have an opinion on most of the comments that are true to life experiences and as such ur basically branding people as being untruthful when in fact we are not
Our parents the baby boomer generation sold us out, that is one of the reasons this is happening. I know of two baby boomers who each invested in over 20 properties on their own, but they both had many children and did not pass on their knowledge, one died, wife messed up will, left sons out and handed control to selfish daughters. One of the daughters is living in the 5 bedroom family home alone even though she has another 1 bedroom apartment paid in full. That makes 5 empty bedrooms, £3000 of unearned income which could be divided amount the siblings every month. You have to cut family off if they don't want to build, they will only waste your time with idle chatter. The so called elders thought they would never get old.
Basically when gentrification takes place, there is incentive amongst companies that provide insurance. If you offer a policy to a homeowner in a poor neighborhood over X amount of years, the cost of that policy will be lower because the owner has "less" to lose, when that particular neighborhood becomes gentrified, property value raises, as well as the policies that cover the property. To put it in simple terms, if you had a company that offered car insurance, you'd much rather offer a policy to someone that owned a Lamborghini rather than a Honda Accord. Bed-Stuy has become a car lot full of Lamborghinis in an Area where people historically could only afford Hondas.
Thanks for the response. So at the end of policy terms these insurance companies come over and nitpick the condition of the property in order not to renew or raise premiums? Do they have an incentive for the people to sell? Because who's to say that the next owner would also choose them to insure the property, and not some other insurance company.
+44616E6E79 sorry for the late reply, but according to my research alot of it starts with rezoning under the guise of urban renewal. what happens in NYC in particular is that the lobbyists, many of whom work directly for the big real estate firms and insurance firms throw tons of cash at the politicians hoping to get elected, they then create these silent deals that allow their insiders to write much of the legislation related to urban renewal. much how wall street lobbyists get presidential candidates in pocket, to be able to gain power and influence in the financial sector once they are elected
my grandmother was born and raised in bedstuy she was born 1925 it was mixed white and black ,but I think it was kinda middle class my grandfather was from parkslope born 1920 and it was poor and no black folks
Anytime property goes near a million insurance needs to see the house if you insure a rolls Royce they want pics to make sure it’s not damaged. High value insurance needs photos my house got photos these are just racist blacks
Sad part here, the real estate would go to great lengths to get long time residents in sections of Brooklyn out of these neighborhoods, so that hipsters can move in and pay bigger rents.
I live in Bedstuy and all of this is true and apparent, we've been overrun by these damn hipsters. They turned the fucking tax return place into a French restaurant... I'm leaving. They can have this borough I'm not paying no 3k a month for a one bedroom apartment, these clueless white folk move in and less than a year later.. gone. This is an idiotic epidemic I seriously wonder what's gonna happen when they take Brownsville.
Sandman unfortunately they've already done the land grab in Brownsville especially along Eastern Parkway near Rockaway Avenue, They are also developing East New York Now, as DeBlasio just announced zoning laws affecting that area which is a political way of saying I'm going to let these real estate developers do a land grab for contributing so generously to my campaign
yes they're evil because people want to sell their property for a lot of money and the people who buy it clean up the neighborhood while making money. but the old crime filled murder filled rape filled slums they used to be were not filled with evil. get real.
no it's not close to the same. here you have people buying and selling actual property. that most of the people bitching could have bought for nothing 20 years ago. and crying bc the neighborhoods aren't hell hole slums anymore.
Good documentry, I have watched videos about this happening all over the United States. I think it's wrong to push people out of their homes and neighborhood's they have lived in most of their lives. They should have provided better school's and programs for the kids growing up there, which would keep them out of trouble. It's not just about what race you are, it's about low income people, the working poor, disabled, veteran's. I can't find affordable housing where I live, I am disabled and can't find affordable housing where I live. And I am sick and tired of people saying that low income people don't take care of there home's, I have had to rent ever since my divorce, my home is clean and I have to pay more than half of my monthly income on rent. I have lived in the same rental for over five years, I am now looking for a two-bedroom place because my granddaughter is in my care. I am having a hard time finding anything I can afford on my income.
Grew up in the Armstrong houses on Marcy. Growing up and attending ps305, the area was a shitshow but look at it now, it's nice and the G train actually runs frequently, but when the neighborhood only had us people of color, everything was trashed.
It's not to late get all the wealthy rappers that you praise so much and invest in the community!!! Nobody's going to do for you what you won't do for yourself!!! No body feels bad, should of invested in your own community's and the youth instead of Jordan's and Gucci bags
I definitely understand what you are experiencing in Crown Heights my friend, you guys have been hit even harder than Bed-Stuy and Bushwick, it's sad because many of us will not be able to afford to stay in neighborhoods we have called home for years, it's a shame! I know it may be getting to expensive but stay in the fight as long as you can brother! Peace
then why didn't you buy the property for peanuts when you could have? or your family if you're young? bc you want to sit around and make excuses then cry when people take advantage of an opportunity.
The antisemitism is off-putting. There wasn’t a single bank out there who was willing to loan us a cent when we started up our business. Banks stopped loaning so freely when the recession hit (for example, it took us an entire year to secure alone loan and they ended up demanding 30% down at the closing and wouldn’t give a repair loan so we had to come up with cash for that). The standards are different- and not to say there aren’t racist policies in place, but to assume white people get these loans freely isn’t true anymore. It was true, but things have tightened up. Regarding the sidewalks- we are legally responsible for our own sidewalks and our town doesn’t enforce. His has resulted in injuries. That woman is of an age where a bad sidewalk could cause her to break a hip. I know paying a fine sucks, but breaking a hip can be deadly.
It's not anti-jewish....they are just explaining their experiences. I live in London and in North London and parts of East London, the Jews have been doing the same thing. However I regard property ownership as part of their culture....whereas proportionately very few blacks own property and are predominantly renters.
^^^You just want to slap them when they say that. Not everyone who lives in Bed-Stuy are criminals, drug addicts and gang members. MOST people living in Bed-Stuy are hard working people with families. They didn't move to Bed-Stuy because they are OK with crime, drugs and gangs. They' move there because it was where they could afford to live. I'm quite sure there are ways to push out crime, drugs and gangs without pushing decent, hard-working people out of their homes.
What incentive does an insurance company have not to insure a home? Insurance companies aren't in the real estate business. They don't want/can't own homes.
The incentive is in the value of the home, if you were a car insurance company would you rather insure a Mercedes Benz or a Honda Accord? With Gentrification the value of the homes go up, so insurance companies make more money off policies based on the value of the home. If that explains it
It might not actually be the insurance company who wants to own it but they are probably affiliated with the real-estate company. The insurance company will say that the property is in bad need of repair and that it is uninsurable, then it is condemned. The person living there can't afford to repair all the "extensive damage" so they have to sell, probably at a loss and then the real-estate company will buy it cheap. They will act like they fixed a few things and then rent or sell at a high price. Now that the property is "newly renovated and fixed" the insurance rates will be higher for that property. That is how the ins. company benefits from all of this. Of course I am just speculating on how this works but it sounds right.
Absolutely disagree with you blaming the Whites and the Jews. The people who do this to your community, some of them are Whites and Jews. But so what? I am sure, some of them ride bicycles at their free time. Are you going to blame bicycle hobbyists? Yes, the problem exists, but it's not going to be solved by a racial riot.
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.
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I left NYC years ago because I couldnt find affordable housing. 10 yrs later I see here a 1bd rm for 2,700? a month How the heck do you survive now? Bedford Stuyvesant, Crown Heights, Harlem, Williamsburg, Bushwick, Fort Greene, Park Slope, Flatbush, Washington Heights, Manhattanville, where 99.999 African Carribbean and African American ( black and spanish).
I was shocked to see these so-called Movie Stars living in my old Neighborhood in Bed Stuy walking their dogs . Years ago you couldn't get em to fly over Bed Stuy . It's disgusting
Gentrification is only terrible when you don't own any property.
You know how many people have owned homes has nothing to do with it. If you are not the right income bracket and color they will force you to move out what do you own the property or not
Issue is that we, as people of color, need to push to own our own businesses, spend at our own businesses, buy our own homes and rent to one another, at decent prices, and control the streets. Unfortunately our minds are caught up in phones, sneakers and other junk, rather than on power and control. As long as we sleep, we can't complain.
many small minority business owners in this area have been denied loans for whatever reason, one of the residents in this part speaks about it
cry racism all you want but the crime is these neighborhoods has dropped dramatically as the prices have increased. that's not a coincidence. nobody is going to pay a lot of money to live in some hell ridden slum.
jim beam Yeah, while the white collar crime skyrockets.
You guys are mindless dotes. Reason why banks don't give colored people loans is bad credit. Not because of racism. White people get the same thing. So in order to survive is diversifying your wealth at 21 or below and build your credit. Then start a steady business while also renting out homes. Stop spending on dumb shoes and cars that depreciate value haha.
I also lived on Jefferson about a block or two from you from 74 to 97..I don't like to visit anymore & if it wasn't for family..I probably wouldn't..nothing's the same anymore and it's sad...the memories are in my mind..but the visual is gone...☹
Keep exposing this serious problem. Great discussion.
As a Latino, I lived in knickerbocker... Look at it now. My god...
You mean Little Italy?
I am white, and would never do this to my black Christian brother. Christians Black, White, Latino or ther races need to work together against unknown dark forces.
Carlos Deangelo Dont wanna hear your bullshit. virtue signalling wont win you anything
One gets attacked for telling the truth or for attacking the messenger. If you don't like it, then walk away or should I say then move away.
How are the new immigrants: African, Mexican, South American, and Indians able to afford to live in NYC , if the African Americans and Latinos that have been there, can't ?
Ayanna Horton some of these minorities come as refugees and get 2 year free rent
I LOVE this lady she keepin it Soooo REAL!!!!!👌
People hate on blacks way to much, they are such kind people from my time in Kenya to all the time I lived in Bronx, black people have been such a privilege to be around.
Blacks came back into this community, and the whites left, and it became poor, but in reality much like Harlem it was like a Black Wall Street despite the poverty
Can't wait for part 2. This is heart breaking. I lived in Kingston ave in Crown Heights in a brownstone and was approached the same way by a white man.
thank you for the feedback, as well as watching. there is an amazing phenomenon taking place in Bed-Stuy, as well as many other neighborhoods in the surrounding areas that have been labeled "poor" historically. this message needs to be spread please share this.
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The same thing is happening in Philly. West Philly has had that happen with the colleges buying properties and selling low interest loans to students or alum. They in turn displace older blacks who have been there for 70 years. It is happening also in North Philly where the students are acquiring the Brownstones and brick townhouses in North Philly. When I lived in that area, they sold for @ $15-25K and now they are over $500K
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Technically what happens Jews come in buying properties for $300K. The investors mostly Jews consider the house a shell. They flip the house adding $500K to 700K in upgrades and rehabilitation to the structure and amenities of the home. Upscale stainless appliances, parking, gutting replacing all the mechanicals, adding value added upscale fittings. By the time they finish the whole upgraded house is worth the 1.3 Million Dollar asking price. If black people are smart they can haggle for a much higher selling price maybe up to $700K. Problem is $700K is nothing when it comes to living in New York City. $700K might be a fair price but that keeps you out of the homeless shelter for maybe 5 to 7 years. THEN WHAT? You still have to live and with no house in New York City its over. The fat lady has sung!
You think it is just happening up in NYC. Dude that same mess is happening in Baltimore too. BALTIMORE which so many people think is a hell hole. People think Baltimore they think dope addicts and The Wire TV series. Let me tell you all the bad press Baltimore gets is for a reason. The money men are coming through poor areas buying property for true Monopoly game prices. I'm talking pennies on the dollar. Then they rehab the houses and sell them for prices starting at the mid $300K's OR they buy a block of run down houses knock them down then build one BIG new building of apartments or condos with sky high rents or sale prices.
Baltimore's black community is being very slowly gutted in ways so sneaky most folk don't even know they are being eased out of the city.
i dont know why we had Hip-Hop artist say they love Brooklyn not buy them properties n build back up they Community. SMH got the fi acial power but dont use it for good. Selfish.
Great work!!! looking forward to part 2.
15:00 Listen to how systemic discrimination works. The insurance companies suddenly want to come in to 'check out' the house. They find something that makes the property worth less or not inhabitable. This never went on.
Fam you killed this, bravo bruh!!
Instead of moving to the south, I wish that blacks from NYC, could move to another city,,, I'm from NYC and will miss the tall buildings in Manhattan, the diff style apartments through out the boroughs, the subway system, the shopping we had !!!! A LOT
Right!! Bc they are coming down here to the south and voting on knocking trees down and building more buildings trying to recreate their old neighborhoods and it’s sucks they are sucking the life out the south.
This is great!
We going to stand tall to keep our homes.
It's too late. Most of Brooklyn are gentrified, which is really sad.
no you're not. you could have kept your homes by buying them dirt cheap years ago.but people chose not to then want to cry when their value sky rockets and intelligent people come in and make money. you waste your time crying while smart people make money.
This is a real tragedy in America. Is there rent control in NYC?
There is unfortunately the biggest lobbyists and political donors for political office are wealthy real estate brokers and property developers who utilize monetary influence to create "zoning laws" which is nothing more than a back door land grab
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yes and it creates higher and higher rents.
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Everybody should move 2 Detroit
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Real estate in New York is expensive and they are moving to less expensive areas and buying up the properties.
New-York Is going mad$$$$$$
its become unaffordable for the average person
she making tons of sense
This is what they are doing to my hood Detroit !! Brewster projects, cass corridor, Woodbridge , corktown , Indian village, Jefferson . All of it . Hurts my soul
Great job, very thoughtful.
Fucking brilliant
why can't you share this video. 1 reason why this didnt go viral. This hurts my soul knowing that our culture is dieing off
I've shared this video as much as I can, I just wanted to be in the community talking to the people about the changes happening
+Beautiful Brown i will check that out unfortunately i handle most of the administration from this page from my phone, so i wasn't able to see this comment until i logged on to my computer, send me an email, i see your passion and knowledge related to this subject, id like to have a more in depth discussion with you if that is possible, my email is in the description
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Its not a race issue in my opinion.Its a money issue,a power issue a wealth issue.You have money you have power and you can buy anything with money.I feel bad for the people that dont have money and are being forced they are being pirated by these predators.The neighhood people should get together and unite as one put all their resources together and start something to change the situation.
tell this to people of color all across the United States who have been displaced from neighborhoods their grandparents grew up in
I think that the same thing has happened not only to African -Americans, but to elderly Italian-Americans, German-Americans and Polish-Americans in my city and in other cities. They were moved out of their homes to have inner loops of expressway to go through their neighborhood , or to put upscale modern condos in an artificially planned neighborhood community with identical condos built next to each other row upon row with built in stores and supermarkets in the same condo community . These communities are characterless and lack history . We are losing old architecture,history and family businesses that existed for over one hundred years. They are put out of business by franchised and chain national brand retail stores, restaurants, and other businesses. There is only one ethnic Jewish Bakery left in my large city. The only Italian Bakery sold out to a non- Italian group who don't know the recipes of half the Italian specialties. There are no more neighborhood Polish Bakeries , German Bakeries, Family Soul Food Restaurants and German Restaurants. There are only two or three family Italian Restaurants. A famous nightspot that hosted talented jazz musicians went by the way of "urban renewal." They have a yearly reunion now. The infamous, character-filled Front Street with Rattlesnake Pete's , old time market, restaurants with the first automates and the magnificent RKO Theater were all plowed down to make parking lots for Kodak and Kodak Park. It has been years since Kodak moved its headquarters out west and a large majority of employees have lost their jobs through corporate downsizing. From that area to High Falls, there is just mile after mile of deserted downtown wilderness of empty parking lots and empty lots with the exception of the Coca cola Bottling Plant. It is appalling: that people lost their family homes and backyards, and neighborhoods and neighbors were split up over "progress" and urban renewal which never happened.! How can we honor cultural diversity, (which seems no more than a p.c. modern buzz word -which is given lip service only) when neighborhood and family establishments are replaced by national chain businesses and entire neighborhoods are demolished with neighbor people displaced as collateral damage in high power politicians' and businesses' quest for progress or real estate for profitable business?
So who is the rude or angry person who crossed out 1/3 of my factual account of my city? There was nothing demeaning or discriminatory in what I wrote ! I know my city better than you do.
Let’s back track a bit there...the wealth issue is a race issue. Minorities do not receive the same opportunities as non poc’s, both socially, economically and especially in terms of education (funding for low income neighborhood schools etc.) (And don’t get me wrong the black community could be doing way more to achieve higher ranks) which paves the way for non poc’s to receive far greater financial benefits, in my eyes, this most definitely ties into race.
+Fox Mulder ^^^hope that made sense
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+The Survival Guide - very interesting, down in florida its seems like our people are just vanishing. ive seen where developers bought property with housing structures on them, then turn around and level everything. only to build it back up with new construction. one last thing. whereever there are people of color there is some form of gentrification going on.
+gcforTRUTH what's happening is we are being pushed back towards the south in search for affordable living conditions, but the reality is that all major cities in this country are facing the same problems. Greed, Money and Power have always ruled.
+Beautiful Brown I watched this happened with the areas surrounding Bedford Stuyvesant, in Bushwick and Crown Heights. Economic Power has the ability to change the landscape of any geographical area, it's like colonization but instead of guns and disease, they utilize the Banks and Political power.
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Maybe it's me but i don't feel any kind of way about this, when we had it we took it for granted (like most things) and then we change happens we cry and say it's their fault when in reality it's ours.
WE us people of our community need to come together and fight and work for what is our and not to be talk our of or price out of our inheritance. I live in Bed-Stuy. just east of Bushwick all my life. My father ran a business and own a brown stone since the 1960's and 1970's and we have the inheritance still to this day. We are not going to sale unless the price goes up in the millions or more. We must stay strong and not to back down let people of other race play us as we are stupid and naïve.
If you don't invest in your community, someone else will.
Eventually your gonna get your ass beat and your face stomped and you'll run home crying back to Colorado and your parents will have to stop paying your rent bitch 😂😂😂😁
Amazing. Every assumption you made about me in that post is completely incorrect. Good job!
shammy dammy - THE END!
wow the legendary d.j. bubba c is truly a bedstuy dj pioneer. my dude.
Just started... but 5k to hand a note? Holy shit
I can't imagine paying these NYC prices. Philly rent >>>
Happens. Is there some kind of mixed-income housing laws in NYC for new developments or rezoned residential properties? In the UK when a residential building goes up a certain amount has to be allocated to low income public housing, depending on where and how the building was funded. (Not that it ever works out as it is supposed to)
There are laws such as this that exist but because of the political and financial influence of many lobbyists which happen to be some of the biggest power brokers in the areas of real estate, property management, and real estate development its easy to see why certain areas become gentrified. Capitalism is not about equality, so when there is an opportunity for financial gain in most cases its not about race, but income level and financial mobility.
Well done. And you have addressed some very important issues. The same thing is happening in London UK. And if you look at areas like Brixton and Ladbroke Grove that were predominantly black in the 1950's to the 1990's the exact same thing is happing as what's going on in Bedsty. Fight The Power.
thank you, gentrification is a world wide phenomenon that must be addressed
lemmieatit I think you should revisit your comment. Maybe you should try and access the situation young black men and boys where going though living in Britain. And the point about black people TAKING white mens jobs, so black people coming into Britain have the ability to take white mens skilled jobs maybe white men ain't as skilled as your making out.
This begins at 6:04
no more black neighborhoods no more spanish,italian,german,irish im eastern european from ridgewood and what maked ny so great was the melting pot of different cultures and different neighborhoods
Interesting story... went to NYC for the first time in my life about 4 years ago. Wanted to look at the bodega that Biggie freestyled in front of.
Found it. Now an organic food grocery store lol
He's from Clinton Hills. His hardcore Bed-Stuy story was a lot of exaggeration. He went to the streets!
+Brooklyn December Clinton hills at that time was still pretty mixed income, I went to JHS 113 in the 90's and the demographic was poor and middle class.
Powerful from the oppressed point of view! M
To all the Black People watching this get your Economics together. And buy up some business in the neighborhood yo solidify your position.
wowmegoguik But banks won't give loans to black people .
Look at Jay-Z.
GREAT IDEA---
boyz in the hood bought me here.
There should be a third part where the same building being bought and resold do not get resold to minorities. Its a shame what happening in NYC. I came home from school and cant even live in my neighborhood. I can afford the prices but I am not the demographic they want in their new properties. Bed-Stuy, Bushwick, Williamsburg, Crown Heights down. East New York next.
I've thought of doing the same thing but it's happening so fast brother it's sickening. What I can do is show you where most of the retail space has been rented out and they have everything opening that would never be in the neighborhood if it wasnt for gentrification European Coffee Shops, Juice Bars, Organic Supermarkets, Thai Restaurants. it's ridiculous, and you are right ENY is next Deblasio's administration just laid out the zoning laws, next the developers move in and push the poor people out
if you can afford it who isn't renting or selling to you?
+jim beam are u actually here and experiencing it or have u? just wondering because u seem to have an opinion on most of the comments that are true to life experiences and as such ur basically branding people as being untruthful when in fact we are not
Our parents the baby boomer generation sold us out, that is one of the reasons this is happening. I know of two baby boomers who each invested in over 20 properties on their own, but they both had many children and did not pass on their knowledge, one died, wife messed up will, left sons out and handed control to selfish daughters. One of the daughters is living in the 5 bedroom family home alone even though she has another 1 bedroom apartment paid in full. That makes 5 empty bedrooms, £3000 of unearned income which could be divided amount the siblings every month. You have to cut family off if they don't want to build, they will only waste your time with idle chatter. The so called elders thought they would never get old.
the system musta' had to move quickly after 11.15.2005..
Halsey Street and Gates Avenue
S. Pierce everywhere all over the hood
Can someone explain the situation with the insurance companies? How can they condemn a property?
Basically when gentrification takes place, there is incentive amongst companies that provide insurance. If you offer a policy to a homeowner in a poor neighborhood over X amount of years, the cost of that policy will be lower because the owner has "less" to lose, when that particular neighborhood becomes gentrified, property value raises, as well as the policies that cover the property. To put it in simple terms, if you had a company that offered car insurance, you'd much rather offer a policy to someone that owned a Lamborghini rather than a Honda Accord. Bed-Stuy has become a car lot full of Lamborghinis in an Area where people historically could only afford Hondas.
Thanks for the response. So at the end of policy terms these insurance companies come over and nitpick the condition of the property in order not to renew or raise premiums? Do they have an incentive for the people to sell? Because who's to say that the next owner would also choose them to insure the property, and not some other insurance company.
+44616E6E79 sorry for the late reply, but according to my research alot of it starts with rezoning under the guise of urban renewal. what happens in NYC in particular is that the lobbyists, many of whom work directly for the big real estate firms and insurance firms throw tons of cash at the politicians hoping to get elected, they then create these silent deals that allow their insiders to write much of the legislation related to urban renewal. much how wall street lobbyists get presidential candidates in pocket, to be able to gain power and influence in the financial sector once they are elected
Come out to California Preposterous ! We've gotta do something soon against this Greed and Robbery ,!
It was Dutch!
13:00 white vultures lying to you devaluing your property. Wow its bad
my grandmother was born and raised in bedstuy she was born 1925 it was mixed white and black ,but I think it was kinda middle class my grandfather was from parkslope born 1920 and it was poor and no black folks
Anytime property goes near a million insurance needs to see the house if you insure a rolls Royce they want pics to make sure it’s not damaged. High value insurance needs photos my house got photos these are just racist blacks
Sad part here, the real estate would go to great lengths to get long time residents in sections of Brooklyn out of these neighborhoods, so that hipsters can move in and pay bigger rents.
exactly
I live in Bedstuy and all of this is true and apparent, we've been overrun by these damn hipsters. They turned the fucking tax return place into a French restaurant... I'm leaving. They can have this borough I'm not paying no 3k a month for a one bedroom apartment, these clueless white folk move in and less than a year later.. gone. This is an idiotic epidemic I seriously wonder what's gonna happen when they take Brownsville.
Sandman unfortunately they've already done the land grab in Brownsville especially along Eastern Parkway near Rockaway Avenue, They are also developing East New York Now, as DeBlasio just announced zoning laws affecting that area which is a political way of saying I'm going to let these real estate developers do a land grab for contributing so generously to my campaign
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+Sandman this is a world model not Just your city
Too slow moving to keep my attention ❤️
lol the guy in the hat and leather jacket reminds me of Dave Chappell..."got any crack?" Lol
Why aren't black people real estate agents in Bed-Stuy.
bcuz racism ;-)
Test is like $200.00 open office on Craigslist.
+Robertson Tirado What are you talking about? These are the small developers with funds to purchase multiple properties.
yes they're evil because people want to sell their property for a lot of money and the people who buy it clean up the neighborhood while making money. but the old crime filled murder filled rape filled slums they used to be were not filled with evil. get real.
no it's not close to the same. here you have people buying and selling actual property. that most of the people bitching could have bought for nothing 20 years ago. and crying bc the neighborhoods aren't hell hole slums anymore.
new york has to be the priciest slum there is. all other cities are mostly slums too they look up to NY they wanna be expensive and ghetto too.
I think it is transforming from a "pricey slum" to an overpriced opportunity
MOMA is beautiful! So are the NY ballet, BAM, the list goes on. Great to see a Broadway show on a whim. Sooo GHETTO!
so sad
Good documentry, I have watched videos about this happening all over the United States. I think it's wrong to push people out of their homes and neighborhood's they have lived in most of their lives. They should have provided better school's and programs for the kids growing up there, which would keep them out of trouble. It's not just about what race you are, it's about low income people, the working poor, disabled, veteran's. I can't find affordable housing where I live, I am disabled and can't find affordable housing where I live. And I am sick and tired of people saying that low income people don't take care of there home's, I have had to rent ever since my divorce, my home is clean and I have to pay more than half of my monthly income on rent. I have lived in the same rental for over five years, I am now looking for a two-bedroom place because my granddaughter is in my care. I am having a hard time finding anything I can afford on my income.
Grew up in the Armstrong houses on Marcy. Growing up and attending ps305, the area was a shitshow but look at it now, it's nice and the G train actually runs frequently, but when the neighborhood only had us people of color, everything was trashed.
It's not to late get all the wealthy rappers that you praise so much and invest in the community!!!
Nobody's going to do for you what you won't do for yourself!!! No body feels bad, should of invested in your own community's and the youth instead of Jordan's and Gucci bags
aLLsTaRo617o it can't whites will attack the when they see bkack united
Fear will keep us stuck. At some point we must build for ourselves.
We are invested in our community...you just don't know the history of the constant fight against us
I live in Prospect Place in Brooklyn, NY, and I'm experiencing the gentrification and now it's affecting us.
I definitely understand what you are experiencing in Crown Heights my friend, you guys have been hit even harder than Bed-Stuy and Bushwick, it's sad because many of us will not be able to afford to stay in neighborhoods we have called home for years, it's a shame! I know it may be getting to expensive but stay in the fight as long as you can brother! Peace
then why didn't you buy the property for peanuts when you could have?
or your family if you're young?
bc you want to sit around and make excuses then cry when people take advantage of an opportunity.
Take what they give you and move to NC. 700k will buy you a mansion +.
ok, I really work out why gentrification is bad? crime is down, investment is up, get out the violins
The antisemitism is off-putting.
There wasn’t a single bank out there who was willing to loan us a cent when we started up our business. Banks stopped loaning so freely when the recession hit (for example, it took us an entire year to secure alone loan and they ended up demanding 30% down at the closing and wouldn’t give a repair loan so we had to come up with cash for that). The standards are different- and not to say there aren’t racist policies in place, but to assume white people get these loans freely isn’t true anymore. It was true, but things have tightened up.
Regarding the sidewalks- we are legally responsible for our own sidewalks and our town doesn’t enforce. His has resulted in injuries. That woman is of an age where a bad sidewalk could cause her to break a hip. I know paying a fine sucks, but breaking a hip can be deadly.
It's not anti-jewish....they are just explaining their experiences.
I live in London and in North London and parts of East London, the Jews have been doing the same thing.
However I regard property ownership as part of their culture....whereas proportionately very few blacks own property and are predominantly renters.
Brownsville would whoop Bed Stuys ass and people in Brooklyn know it dont front!
if it pushes out crime...drugs and gangs..i welcome it
^^^You just want to slap them when they say that. Not everyone who lives in Bed-Stuy are criminals, drug addicts and gang members. MOST people living in Bed-Stuy are hard working people with families. They didn't move to Bed-Stuy because they are OK with crime, drugs and gangs. They' move there because it was where they could afford to live. I'm quite sure there are ways to push out crime, drugs and gangs without pushing decent, hard-working people out of their homes.
This video is beyond stupid. Why would you tell anyone who owns the building you live in. Now you're upset about the change in the neighborhood.
Ovrerpriced hispanic stoes? Why yo dont open your own stores. Intead of blaming and complaining. Since youre so smart.?
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What incentive does an insurance company have not to insure a home? Insurance companies aren't in the real estate business. They don't want/can't own homes.
The incentive is in the value of the home, if you were a car insurance company would you rather insure a Mercedes Benz or a Honda Accord? With Gentrification the value of the homes go up, so insurance companies make more money off policies based on the value of the home. If that explains it
It might not actually be the insurance company who wants to own it but they are probably affiliated with the real-estate company. The insurance company will say that the property is in bad need of repair and that it is uninsurable, then it is condemned. The person living there can't afford to repair all the "extensive damage" so they have to sell, probably at a loss and then the real-estate company will buy it cheap. They will act like they fixed a few things and then rent or sell at a high price. Now that the property is "newly renovated and fixed" the insurance rates will be higher for that property. That is how the ins. company benefits from all of this. Of course I am just speculating on how this works but it sounds right.
I wrote that before I read the reply from "the survival guide". He explains it well.
Absolutely disagree with you blaming the Whites and the Jews. The people who do this to your community, some of them are Whites and Jews. But so what? I am sure, some of them ride bicycles at their free time. Are you going to blame bicycle hobbyists?
Yes, the problem exists, but it's not going to be solved by a racial riot.
TonyMoe2009 look at the like to dislike ratio pussy
talk is cheap. get down or get out.
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.
Frank Cullen have you lived in the south?
Frank Cullen dude no the south don't have the energy like new york city
THANK YOU
So sad