East New York, Did It Work?

There Goes the Neighborhood

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4.8 • 543 Ratings

🗓️ 20 September 2017

⏱️ 17 minutes

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Summary

Mayor de Blasio is running for re-election and affordable housing remains one of his signature issues. If his plan for East New York is a measure of the merits of his approach, how's it working out? Kai Wright brings us back to East New York to check in on how the Mayor's plan to leverage the force of gentrification for good is working a year and a half later.

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0:00.0	Previously, there goes the neighborhood.
0:11.5	This is some phenomenon that everybody sees, everybody feels,
0:14.6	but somehow isn't in the center of the discussion where it needs to be.
0:18.3	I am, of course, talking about gentrification.
0:20.8	It is the most ambitious, broadest, strongest housing plan of its kind in the country.
0:27.9	The city actually has been in what is legally known as a housing emergency for decades.
0:32.9	A rezoning is when the city changes the rules about what can get built where.
0:39.3	They have also the political power to modify.
0:42.3	They can go and sit with commissioners and with high-ranked people and say,
0:46.3	I need an extra block.
0:48.3	And this neighborhood?
0:50.3	I was in there 72 and a half years and I love the neighborhood, the people, and the stink of it.
0:55.5	I love it all.
0:56.4	And I'm not going nowhere.
0:58.0	You can't go anywhere.
0:59.2	I ain't going nowhere.
1:01.4	I'm not going nowhere.
1:02.8	When everybody gave up on the neighborhood, we didn't.
1:07.2	We stood in the neighborhood.
1:09.3	We worked it out, and we made it the better place that everybody wants to invest into now.
1:14.7	There goes the neighborhood.
1:15.5	There goes the neighborhood.
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