Here’s the Plan

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

4.8 • 543 Ratings

🗓️ 30 March 2016

⏱️ 31 minutes

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Summary

Mayor de Blasio's plan to rezone East New York and 14 other neighborhoods is his administration's way of controlling the fierce gentrification machine that is steamrolling across the city. So what does the zoning plan for East New York actually look like? This week we talk with WNYC's Jessica Gould and City Limits editor Jarrett Murphy to understand the nuts and bolts of the plan. And we go deep into the gentrification machine to see how it works. We meet Elizabeth Grefrath, a young gentrefier in Crown Heights who tells us what it was like to move to the neighborhood just a few years ago. We sit down with big time developers like Boaz Gilad of Brookland Capital and Kunal Chothani of Akelius -- a new player from Sweden -- to understand how they operate in the borough's various markets. And we walk the streets of Flatbush with real estate agent Namane Mohlabane who shows just how complicated -- and personal -- the machine can be. Subscribe to the podcast on iTunes.

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0:00.0	Previously, on There Goes the Neighborhood.
0:02.1	People would come in literally and hire somebody to go out on the street and get into a fight in front of your house, all right, to scare you from leaving.
0:20.9	They came one day, asked her you want to sell.
0:24.1	She says, no.
0:25.4	They came the next day, you want to sell?
0:27.9	She says, no.
0:29.0	They get up in the morning, and the front door is on the floor.
0:32.9	Says, you want to sell now?
0:34.3	So they took the money in red.
0:38.0	City governments have been largely absent from the ghettos.
0:42.4	Their chief presence has taken the form of a policeman.
0:46.3	And it has been his unhappy lot to be the lone representative of the man,
0:53.0	Dwighty, the hunkies.
0:56.0	It's a battle between Italian kids who've always lived there.
0:59.0	This is their turf and black kids who are newly moving in.
1:03.0	When we built the middle class in this country,
1:07.0	we made decisions about who was going to benefit.
1:10.0	And we decided black people weren't a part of that.
1:14.6	There goes the neighborhood.
1:15.6	There goes the neighborhood.
1:17.8	There goes the neighborhood.
1:21.8	I think I understand people's frustration, to say the least, it's been astounding how quickly this city has changed
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