Tuesday Links
Greenpoint Houses. Photo by bondidwhat. Bloomberg Pushes NYC Green Plan in Albany [NY Times] Green Apple Hosts City Enviro Meeting [NY Post] City Home Prices Up 20% Since 2006 [NY Sun] City Water Board Approves 11.5% Rate Hike [NY1] ‘Prime’ Retail Spaces in Downtown Brooklyn [Brooklyn Eagle] 99 Gold 20 Percent Rented Already [HuntGrunt via…
Greenpoint Houses. Photo by bondidwhat.
Bloomberg Pushes NYC Green Plan in Albany [NY Times]
Green Apple Hosts City Enviro Meeting [NY Post]
City Home Prices Up 20% Since 2006 [NY Sun]
City Water Board Approves 11.5% Rate Hike [NY1]
‘Prime’ Retail Spaces in Downtown Brooklyn [Brooklyn Eagle]
99 Gold 20 Percent Rented Already [HuntGrunt via Curbed]
Construction Site Du Jour: 77 Berry [Gowanus Lounge]
NYC’s Dirtiest Neighborhood? Bed Stuy [Gothamist]
Call It Diversification not Gentrification [Kensington Blog]
Building Affordable Homes on Halsey [Bed Stuy Blog]
Tips for Stabilizing Brownstone Front Doors? [Forum]
If you’d like to be me, 11:47, please take my mortgage, unpleasant relationships, and my health issues too. Until then, get your own life. I grow exceedingly weary of you too.
Basta!
No sweat, CHP. We knew it wasn’t you.
7:49, an accurate count of the number of black internet users would be a complicated thing, that has to factor in not only income, but age, education, and myriad other things. The same is true for white, Hispanic, Asian, etc, etc users. Also, I know plenty of people of all races who have office jobs that don’t allow them to surf the net. Race has nothing to do with company policy in that case. Not to mention countless levels of jobs that require people to be away from a computer.
Can we not over generalize and over victimize black people, of which I am one, as all poor, ignorant technophobes? A great deal of us are none of the above. I will grant that there are too many who do not have computers or internet access, but that can be said of any group, especially older citizens. I’m sure poor people of any persuasion are not spending too much time on Brownstoner. With most houses discussed on this site at least a million dollars, this is a playground for at least the upper middle class, with a few of us lucky ones of lesser means thrown in.
PS, for what it’s worth, any post with my name on it that advocates tearing an old building down is most assuredly NOT by me. I’m being trolled.
What is the percentage of blacks in Brooklyn that spend a lot of time online versus whites? Perhaps part of the answer is that many of the truly poor blacks in the community do not have easy access to the INternet. they also probably do not have desk jobs that allow them to waste away the day on sites like this.
The exchange here alone crystalizes the fact that RACE MATTERS! I am laughing to keep from crying. People are disIllusional about how everything is relative… Black Folks, not present at the Brownstoner event is Significant… The white folks should be Asking themselves, WHY? I mean it is Brooklyn for God sakes and people of color own More brownstones throughout brooklyn than not! they may not chat endlessly or wax poetic about the thrills of ‘This Old House’ but they are Brownstoners… that’s my 2 cents…
race and real estate are inexorably linked in New York. After decades of white flight at the mere hint of a black family moving into a house nearby, now the children and grandchildren of that generation, rich and self-absobed, are moving back into the city and in some cases, in order to get a good deal, into neighborhoods in transition. Black New yorkers with no hope of ever being able to afford the houses in the blocks they grew up in are upset. Part of this is due to the economic disparity brought about by racism in this counrty, which up to the day before yesterday was vicious and as ingrained as driving on the right. I think that white folks that move into neighborhoods such as Fort Greene and Clinton Hill are in denial if they do not ackowledge the hurt and pathology that is part and parcel of the fabric of the neighborhood. It isn’t all capuccino and german dishwashers. The real estate prices are insane verging on the malicious. A pox to anyone that buys a million dollar house in Brooklyn and ignores the desperate situation of most, yes most, of the black people who have lived here all their lives whom they are pushing out.
I love how if there are one small group of guys in an entire neighborhood who resent gentrification that means the neighborhood has “racial tensions”. This attitude is a typical type of resentment in young males, who blame their lack of success in life on outside forces all the time. You can find these kinds of guys anywhere and in any race and any community in any state or country.
Most of the time these discussions are nothing but an insult to the black inhabitants of a neighborhood. I’m white. My black neighbors are awesome, and friendly as heck. Also they love nice restaurants, they love espresso, and have been craving “gentrification” of the commercial streets nearby too. Give me a break. Stop trying to stereotype the entire planet. Find another headline.
Wow.
I mean, wow!
I really, really, REALLY love this blog!!!!!
Damn 6:18! You get on with your bad self!