The Gentrification of East New York

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Got that right.

 

[dabushwackers]

I also grew up in canarise in the 90's and remember it was mostly white racist ppl that lived their. Black folks started moving in and buying cribs from Farragut rd and moved up to glenwood rd and the trend continued. I remember racist white ppl try to burn down Fillmore real estate because they were selling homes to black folks and Al Sharpton marching down flatlands av because of it. Now when you look at canarise you would never think it was once filled with white ppl cause you don't see anymore of them. I also remember the infamous L train I used to come home from clubbing at 4am and had to hike like 15 blocks home I hated that shit

 

[Black Radical]

Not wit them grimy ass niggas over there.. I will be shocked if it happens

I can see it happening at broadway junction but not in the belly of Brownsville

The junction has allot of underdeveloped land surrounding it so I can see that becoming something. BUt like u said, the rest of it. Nah.

The problem with gentrifying Brownsville is there are SOOOO many projects. Lots of em and their all over.

The neighborhood contains the highest concentration of NYCHA developments in New York City; NYCHA controls more than one-third of all of the neighborhood’s housing units.[5]
Low-income public housing projects[edit]



There are 18 NYCHA developments located in Brownsville.[6]

This is whats gonna fuck Brownsville. You can do alot with low income housing, u can make it mixed income and shit like that. It is much more difficult to do that with the projects.

 

[smutsmut]

I also grew up in canarise in the 90's and remember it was mostly white racist ppl that lived their. Black folks started moving in and buying cribs from Farragut rd and moved up to glenwood rd and the trend continued. I remember racist white ppl try to burn down Fillmore real estate because they were selling homes to black folks and Al Sharpton marching down flatlands av because of it. Now when you look at canarise you would never think it was once filled with white ppl cause you don't see anymore of them. I also remember the infamous L train I used to come home from clubbing at 4am and had to hike like 15 blocks home I hated that shit

That's when we left. When we moved to Canarsie I was 4 years old and most of the kids I played with where white. I was 1 of the only 5 black kids in my class. Shit..the first girl i ever kissed was white. Until about 2 years before we moved there was only 1 white person left on the block and that's because she was married to a black guy. Then we moved to Midwood where I was the only black kid on the block. I used to want to go to the hood just so I could be around black people. My cousin lived in Brownsville and I used to spend most of my time around there during the 90's when Brownsville was really bad. If not for that I would have had no street smarts what so ever.

 

[Newlots]

Canarsie is just as hard to transition but for a different reason. Canarsie has serious lack of public transportation. There is only 1 train station which is on Rockaway and Glenwood. I lived in Canarsie until I was 10 in 1990 so I literally did not ride a NYC subway until I was 11. So when I look at subway pictures from the 80's with all the graffiti it looks foreign to me I never saw any of that. No subway = No Gentrification

Wow you guys are taking me way back. I'm from ENY and went to elementary school in Canarsie. I don't think that Canarsie has a transportation problem anymore than other neighborhood that have gentrified. Yea they only have the L train, but they have many buses that run through the whole neighborhood. Most of those buses pass Rockaway Parkway. I live in DC now and there is gentrification all over. Yes, the closer to the subway the higher the price, but all sorts of places are being snatched and gentrified train or no train.

Also, remember Canarise was one of the last neighborhoods for African Americans to move into. In the 80's they firebombed the house of the first African American (West Indian) to buy and the real estate agency that sold it. 90% of Canarsie was white and they didn't have a problem with the transportation then, they actually used to keep brothers out. I think the issue with Canarsie is that it's mostly single family homes. Lots of African Americans brought during "white flight" and got it for a relatively good price. If they sell now where can they buy and get anything comparable? My dad still has his house in the East and one on his block just sold for over $300K and on the real, it's a shoe box and the neighborhood is not as nice as Canarsie. Every time I go home I can't believe how small it is. Growing up I thought it was big. (lol)