Mouth to Ear

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

🗓️ 9 March 2016

⏱️ 29 minutes

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Summary

Gentrification is something everyone is talking about -- and the conversation is often heated. It's a complicated idea with a range of factors: race, class, history, policy. And of course there is the personal experience that we each bring to the table. Take a walk in Bedford-Stuyvesant with Monica Bailey, a resident of the neighborhood for more than 30 years. She'll show you the home she lost. Monica Bailey was forced to leave her apartment after the owners of the building sold it to a Brooklyn developer who wanted it cleared out. (Richard Yeh/WNYC) Sit in the office of a Brooklyn developer and listen to him work the phones. He'll talk tactics for going after foreclosures. These are the people affected by change -- and the people who are bringing it. Meet them up close and follow the wave of gentrification deeper into Brooklyn. Subscribe to the podcast on iTunes.

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0:00.0	I could I get a latte?
0:04.0	You're going to sit down at this year and take it to go?
0:07.0	You know what's interesting?
0:10.0	The other day I was walking in my neighborhood and I saw a black elderly gentleman
0:14.0	that I hadn't seen in a couple months and he literally, his eyes flew open and he said,
0:19.0	you're still here! And I went, yeah, and you're still here.
0:24.6	Things have changed, haven't they?
0:26.6	And we were like, yeah, black folks are disappearing.
0:30.6	We're not going to
0:33.6	fight, he's good up,
0:34.6	we do not,
0:36.6	we do not, I'm not ready to sell.
0:43.8	I am ready to sell yet, and I need them to leave me anewan.
0:47.3	Flyers, you know, stuffed in the mailbox.
0:49.5	As soon as I see, we buy houses, I throw them right in garbage.
0:52.7	Real estate, that's like the only way out of poverty to reach real wealth.
0:58.6	When he bought it, there was still one or two tenants living in a building.
1:02.0	Our agreement on the lease was that I will get it completely vacant, and that's how I got it.
1:06.2	I live in bedstay. I moved there four years ago with, like, lots of other white people.
1:12.2	And as a white person, I don't know what my white privilege is. You know, that's part of it, right? It's ignorance. It's about not knowing the benefits that I have because I'm white.
1:23.6	And this neighborhood, I was in there 72 and a half years and I love the neighborhood, the people, and the stink of it.
1:30.3	I love it all.
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