News Flash: Everyone Wants to Live in the City
If you weren’t already convinced that city life is becoming increasingly preferable to suburban life, see this article in The New Republic, which looks at a trend called “demographic inversion”—a reversal of the white flight that helped hollow out the inner city beginning in the 1950s. The author quantifies what many Brooklynites already know: the…
If you weren’t already convinced that city life is becoming increasingly preferable to suburban life, see this article in The New Republic, which looks at a trend called “demographic inversion”—a reversal of the white flight that helped hollow out the inner city beginning in the 1950s. The author quantifies what many Brooklynites already know: the neighborhoods closest to vocational and cultural hubs (like, dare we say, Manhattan) and with shopping and services in walking distance are the most popular, forcing poorer folks to move further and further out. There’s been plenty of talk about the suburbs potentially turning into 21st century slums but what will 21st century cities look like if demographic inversion continues? “In the worst case, demographic inversion would result in the poor living out of sight and largely forgotten in some new kind of high-rise projects beyond the city border, with the wealthy huddled in gated enclaves in the center.”
Trading Places [The New Republic]
Beyond Gentrification [Curbed]
Photo by Daily Phototherapy.
“Like I said please of you believe this piece of bullshit then buy something! You see most of you Asshats are just fucking posers, cannibalizing a whole neighborhood for gain. You don’t support the business here you just here for bullshit and have not made a investment if the Hood. Like fucking Locusts swarming from neighborhood to neighborhood!”
– What
Assuming you are NOT a real estate broker in Lodi which, given your poor writing skills, I hope is not true ….
You don’t own in the neighborhood. And let’s cut to the chase here, what, you mean Clinton Hill. Are you still bitter about the fact that others have come into your neighborhood and displaced you? Is this what this is all about? Rhetorical questions, what. No need for another one of your rhetorical answers.
You don’t even know any of the mom & pop shops in Bed-Stuy near Restoration Plaza. So obviously, you don’t support the local businesses because, if you did, you would know them.
And to repeat – yet again – you work(ed) in the real estate business. You created the very problem you rant about. If you want to be angry with someone, look in the mirror.
The days of fast flipping for a fast buck are over and they have been over for some time now. People buying and living in their homes are here to stay. You need to get used to the fact that the days of your childhood are over. There is no going back. Your war to maintain the status quo of the 80’s was lost a long time ago. Grow up and deal with it.
And no, no one is going to beat me up, “gun -but” me or rob me. Your threats are sad and pathetic.
“The What – I think you completely quoting me out of context shows why you are truly just an asshole and have no credibility (even when you are right)”
Whoa nellie! What a minute.. You assfuck can just go off on me but when I return fire you get upset. ROTFLMMFAO! Hey you know what. F_CK Y__. Would you like to buy a vowel?
The What
Someday this war is gonna end…
This has been an interesting conversation. I hope you all have a good weekend. On a happy kumbaya note, what I like thinking about is that so many people are now, and in my opinion will continue to be, invested in the community and future of neighborhoods in NYC, and Brooklyn in particular. Makes my cynical cranky *ss all warm and fuzzy – but I’m sure I’ll continue to become more and more cynical and grumpy anyway. Have a good weekend everyone.
Good to see that someone is digging beneath the pile of leaves that is the over-used, catch-all, upwardly mobile adjective, ‘gentrification’.
lol fsrq.
“Now in many of those areas, you have a mix of working class and some professionals who stuck it out through the bad times, along with new professionals moving in.”
I know none of you fucktard lived in Brooklyn during the Blackout of ’77. Broadway was destroyed and did not come back until the late 90’s. Matter of fact Bushwick was a shithole after the Blackout and most of the people who had business there left and never returned.
Most of you Asshats have no idea about New York or Brooklyn. Just a bunch of neighborhood hijacking motherfuckers and when this depression gets underway, I want to see how many of you “stick it out”
The What
Someday this war is gonna end…
The What – I think you completely quoting me out of context shows why you are truly just an asshole and have no credibility (even when you are right)
What I said could not happen again was “massive suburbanization/white flight” not as you implied with the proceeding 10 quotes, an economic depression (that certainly CAN happen again)
Please do not respond to me, do not quote me, just please crawl back into the hole you came out of and die a slow lonely and painful death.
Benson-
Although the nyc.gov website info you recommend isn’t exactly easy to find, I did come across this rather quickly:
http://furmancenter.nyu.edu/CD218.pdf.pdf
A quote from this report:
“Contrary to borough and citywide trends, Flatlands/Canarsie witnessed a 12.7% increase in median income between 2002 and 2005, and the district now has the highest median income in Brooklyn. CD 218 also has a much higher rate of homeownership and a much lower share of rent-regulated units than either the borough or the City.”
So beyond this, I admit I’m guilty of actually visiting the places I wrote about rather than just surfing stats on the net.
Yes, I know there’re lots of immigrants are moving to Sheepshead, Brighton, etc – but please tell me who owned the land on which all the glitzy new condos are being built? If Brooklyn property owners decide to cash-out & make way for all these dachas-by-the-sea, that’s hardly a case of middle-class squeeze.
uhhh … why do you think the city built so many housing projects in east new york? there is nothing novel about marginalization of the poor in our country’s history of urban development.