Open Thread: Do The Right Thing Edition
The 20th anniversary of the release of Spike Lee’s ground-breaking movie Do The Right Thing, which dealt with a day in the life of a block in Bed Stuy, and in so doing brought the multi-layered issues of gentrification race coexistence and conflict in the inner city to a broader national audience. Two decades later,…
The 20th anniversary of the release of Spike Lee’s ground-breaking movie Do The Right Thing, which dealt with a day in the life of a block in Bed Stuy, and in so doing brought the multi-layered issues of gentrification race coexistence and conflict in the inner city to a broader national audience. Two decades later, how much has changed and how much remains the same?
THL – YES!
one of my favorite soundtracks was both Crooklyn soundtracks
I remember gettin down to “Ill never go back to Georgia”
More to your point, wasder, I think that areas outside of the five boroughs and, for the most part, the rest of the country, had been moving up more slowly for many years. They did not have the “city problems” of crime & blighted neighborhoods that existed here in NYC. In the seventies and eighties it was a great time for urban real estate in Chicago. Not so much here. So NYC, and brooklyn in particular had a lot of catch up that occurreed in the late nineties and continued into 2000-2007. Things in Boston and all around that area were moving quite nicely from 1990 onwards. It didn’t really start here until 1998 – 1999.
I agree with Montrose on this one. Crooklyn was much better (for all the reasons she stated)
Besides- The movie Crooklyn had in my opinion one of the all time best movie soundtracks. 2 Discs of musical brilliance. I still listen to them with regularity.
Vol. 1
Crooklyn – The Crooklyn Dodgers
Respect Yourself – The Staple Singers
Everyday People – Sly & The Family Stone
Pusher Man – Curtis Mayfield
Thin Line Between Love and Hate – The Persuaders
El Pito (I’ll Never Go Back to Georgia) – Joe Cuba
ABC – The Jackson 5
Oh Girl – The Chi-Lites
Mighty Love – The Spinners
Mr. Big Stuff – Jean Knight
Ooh Child – The Five Stairsteps
Pass the Peas – The JB’s
Time Has Come Today – The Chambers Brothers
People Make the World Go Round – Marc Dorsey
Vol 2
People Make the World Go Round – The Stylistics
Signed, Sealed, Delivered I’m Yours – Stevie Wonder
Bra – Cymande
I’m Stone in Love with You – The Stylistics
Everybody Is a Star – Sly & the Family Stone
Never Can Say Goodbye – The Jackson 5
Soul Power – James Brown
Soul Makossa – Manu Dibango
La-La (Means I Love You) – The Delfonics
I’ll Take You There – The Staple Singers
Puerto Rico – Eddie Palmieri
Theme from Shaft – Isaac Hayes
Tears of a Clown – Smokey Robinson & the Miracles
I Can See Clearly Now – Johnny Nash
That’s what I thought, ditto!
wasder, each time we see the Douglas Elliman data for the quarter it has shown us that brownstone Brooklyn has not been behaving at all like any of the Case Schiller data. I do not believe that brownstones are immune from price cutting, all I have to believe to refute BHO is that they won’t fall 50% from peak comps which the data so far supports. If the Case Schiller data is showing that we’ve reached an inflection point with the numbers gettting “less worse” then we’re not going to see the type of price cuts that BHO expects, that’s all.
Uh oh, always only two degrees of separation between the OT and cats.
Ditto – I agree w/ 11:37 but it certainly was provocative today & I’m amazed at the civilized level of discourse (so far.)
Dittoburg, Mr. B trying to shepherd us would be like herding cats. There. I said it. CATS.
Excellent quote ENY!