Our Town

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

🗓️ 27 April 2016

⏱️ 42 minutes

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Summary

Gentrification has many New Yorkers asking the same question: Is there still a place for me in this city? We meet Dr. Ron Dailey who's been practicing medicine in Brooklyn for two decades, all the while watching long time patients leave the city, one after another. We meet New Yorkers fighting to stay and others who have made the decision to go. And we check in with East New York, the neighborhood where Mayor de Blasio's rezoning plan was passed by city council just last week. With the wheels of gentrification already in motion, we start thinking about solutions. There are some good ideas on the table that we don't always give enough space in the conversation. Take for instance, public housing. No, not that public housing. The public housing idea that never happened. It involves going all the way back to Fiorello La Guardia -- and looking beyond the de Blasio affordable housing plan. Subscribe to the podcast on iTunes.

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0:00.0	Previously, on There Goes the Neighborhood.
0:02.0	How can I get a latte?
0:04.0	Latte?
0:05.0	You're going to sit down at this year?
0:07.0	Take it to go.
0:08.0	You know what's interesting?
0:10.0	The other day I was walking in my neighborhood and I saw a black elderly gentleman
0:15.0	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 and he said, you're still here!
0:24.6	And I went, yeah, and you're still here.
0:26.9	Things have changed, haven't they?
0:31.4	And we were like, yeah, black folks are disappearing.
0:34.2	He's good up! He's to God!
0:34.3	Fight!
0:35.5	He's to God!
0:36.9	He's to God! He's to God! I'm not ready to sell yet and I need them to leave me an
0:47.5	flyers you know stuffed in the mailbox as soon as I see we buy houses I throw up right
0:52.6	in the garbage real estate that's like the only way out of poverty to reach real wealth.
0:59.1	When he bought it, there was still one or two tenants living in a building.
1:02.5	Our agreement on the lease was that I will get it completely vacant.
1:05.6	And that's how I got it.
1:06.7	I live in bedstay.
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