On the heels of this new luxury rental development, plans to convert the Knockdown Center into an event space, as well as concerns of gentrification coming to the neighborhood, there is a fear that Ridgewood’s IBZ zone is threatened. (IBZs are an initiative developed in 2006 to prevent manufacturing businesses from getting priced out of…
I brought a house in astoria last month and another place in sunnyside/hunters point border area. I use to only have places in brooklyn.
Closing Bell: Gentrification Is Coming for QueensCan this website stop with these articles? You're making it worse for long term residents who are barely scraping by. Also, please don't respond with "well if you can't keep up, don't live there..." Cause people like me have been trying really hard to keep up. No instead, this article just adds more stress to a volatile situation. Landlords see articles like these, get greedy, and totally disregards to responsible tenants in favor of those who can pay more. Meanwhile the ones who have seen the neighbor grow get displaced. Disrupting life. For friends and routines have been established, bonds have been made. I don't understand when an area improves, then the gentrification and real estate agents swoop in like vultures - after the work has already been done.
Breaking News: Ridgewood Is the Next Big ThingManny Jalonschi is a lifelong resident of Glendale, not Ridgewood, and lives nowhere near this site. The overwhelming majority of Ridgewood residents at the meeting were in favor of this rezone, and most of them live within a block or two of the site.
Some Ridgewood Residents Fear New Luxury Rental Development Will Cause Gentrification