Sad to see what happened to Brooklyn. I left in 2001. I used to always be downtown. When they were building Barclays, my son visited me from California. I took him to Brooklyn and it was fucked up. They had shut down all the regular stores.
Before that I took a shorty from DC up on a humble to go to Flatbush. I couldn't believe all the white people I saw while driving up Eastern Parkway; Franklin Avenue etc. Walking dogs and jogging.
Crazy thing is, I've seen the exact same thing happen here in DC over the past 20 years.