Closing Bell: Gentrification Indicators
Over on Nostrand Park, they’re trying to put together a list of indicators that your neighborhoods being gentrified. The author suggests three (including coffee shops and blogs) and luckily no one’s mentioned flea markets yet. Other suggestions? Photo by rymerster

Over on Nostrand Park, they’re trying to put together a list of indicators that your neighborhoods being gentrified. The author suggests three (including coffee shops and blogs) and luckily no one’s mentioned flea markets yet. Other suggestions?
Photo by rymerster
#2 Banks move in, check cashing places move out.
And the #1 indication of gentrification – some b— from corcoran invents a new name to market your neighborhood…
White people.
When white people come, the sushi spots come, the “gourmet” everything, lounges, overpriced clothing boutiques, overpriced housing, just about everything goes up when white people move-in to an “urban” neighborhood.
For example, Prospect Lefferts Garden & Red Hook. I grew up on Fenimore btn Flatbush & Bedford. I seen white people live on the in blocks (i.e. between Bedford & Rogers). They never took the Q/D or the B train at Parkside or Prospect Park. The 7th Ave station was like the last stop for all white people on those trains. Now I see them get off all the way at Cortelyou Road! Madness.
For Red Hook, I was born & raised in Brooklyn & never went to Red Hook until like last year (for my road test). Now I have a job in Red Hook & it shocks me to see the amount of white people living here. Red Hook is on people radars as being gentrified; but, I don’t see it or get it. I still see a massive amount of abandon land & buildings mixed-in with nice buildings that white people recently purchased & renovated. And, white people drive so they don’t have to worry about the horrendous commute to & from Red Hook. Wait! They take the NY Water Taxi.
Sometimes a sister must clarify.
In all honesty it comes down to G-R-E-E-N. Historically, people of color may have been/be disproportionately displached when it comes to gentrification.., but it must sting like hell when it happens to you no matter the race.
Some white friends of mine who moved to Boston, Cambridge, and those who lived in working class white neighborhoods in Philadelphia, S. Phila – Kensington – Fishtown, are blogging about being priced out of those communities.
Maybe DaveinBedStuy when you retire you can buy my families place in Lancaster, Pa…, but wait it’s already gone from Rural to Suburban.
By the time you retire Lncaster, PA may have transformed into an inner city with a “charming” but dilapidated Amish Barn that could be a real fix’er upper.
PS I am Black.., very, very Black.
Posted by: snowboardqueen at November 4, 2009 8:20 AM
LOL
Me: Chicago to UES to bed Stuy and, upon retirement, rural Pennsylvania. I’ll be in Bed Stuy a long time!!!!
Saraghina people opening another retaurant on Halsey & Stuyvesant!!!!!
gen⋅tri⋅fi⋅ca⋅tion – noun
1. the buying and renovation of houses and stores in deteriorated urban neighborhoods by upper- or middle-income families or individuals, thus improving property values but often displacing low-income families and small businesses.
This being the “supposed” true definition of gentrification, how many gentrifiers are just passing through, renters with deeper pockets than the previous residents before them, before we are uprooted our self by people with even deeper pockets?
Boring Pennsylvania suburb to East Village to Park Slope to Crown Heights.., to hopefully a cabin in Vermont!!!
PS I am Black.., very, very Black.
you know your neighborhood has been gentrified when white girls walk their dogs at 11:30pm and act like it is OK.
Being out-gentrified by younger and wealthier people who look like you did to older people 25 years ago.
Rosie Perez
me again,
yeah,ummm… let me restate one of my points…
In an ungentrified neighborhood, when someone tells you they are “gonna kick your ass”. They do not mean it in the ironic sense. They mean just that.
In a gentrified ‘hood, “kickin’ ass” is just an abstract concept.
just wanted to clarify that for those of you who find yourselves in east new york or gerritsen beach on any particular Friday night.