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There Goes the Neighborhood

'Brooklyn, We Go Hard'

There Goes the Neighborhood

WNYC Studios and KCRW

History, City, Nyc, The, Nation, Documentary, News, Brooklyn, Gentrification, York, Boroughs, Real, Race, New, Estate, Society & Culture, Business News, Wnyc

4.8543 Ratings

🗓️ 16 March 2016

⏱️ 31 minutes

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Summary

East New York is the first neighborhood Mayor Bill de Blasio targeted for comprehensive rezoning -- and it's the neighborhood that saw real estate investments jump from $2.7 million in 2013 to $42 million in the first half of 2014 alone. But since the 1960s, outsiders have known East New York for its low median income and high crime rates. So what's it been like all those years for the people who call it home?

Transcript

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0:00.0

When everybody gave up on the neighborhood, we didn't.

0:05.1

We stood in the neighborhood.

0:06.9

We worked it out, and we made it the better place that everybody wants to invest into now.

0:14.8

East New York, fight, East New York, that's where we're going this week.

0:22.0

Last week on There Goes the Neighborhood, we were in Bedstuy.

0:24.7

Well, back in the days, it was everybody.

0:27.9

We had all my aunt, my mother's sisters, everybody lived in Bedstey.

0:32.2

It has changed.

0:34.1

Like all these buildings here, people lived in these.

0:38.9

I said, did you close on it yet?

0:41.1

If you ain't closed on it, we don't have no conversation.

0:43.9

He said, well, I came to offer you some money.

0:45.9

I said, you are out of your mind.

0:47.2

You have felt and bumped your head.

0:50.2

He said, I will have you evicted, and you out on the street, and then you won't get nothing. He called Con Ed and said, if will have you evicted and you out on the street and you won't get nothing.

0:55.0

He called Con Ed and said, you can cut the electricity off.

1:00.0

I refuse to be moved out of my place or where I feel comfortable, where I live, where I know people's name, where people know my name, where we look out for each other.

1:11.7

I had to find a place where I knew I wasn't leaving for a while.

1:15.8

So what about this place here?

1:17.2

I think what you know is who you know.

1:19.2

And I'll just leave it like that.

1:25.2

There goes the neighborhood.

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