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Pod Damn America

(preview) Ridgewick

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Pod Damn America

Comedy

4.3691 Ratings

🗓️ 1 May 2024

⏱️ 6 minutes

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Summary

We catch up with the pro-Palestine student encampments, talk about a recent NY Post expose on how bad Karine Jean-Pierre sucks at her job and, last but not least, Anders goes over the sordid history of the Ridgewood/Bushwick border, namely its special place in the history of NYC gentrification. For the full ep and more bonus content, subscribe to Patreon.com/Poddamnamerica

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0:00.0

But I mean it's fucking Dutch guy in like 1903 was like yeah it's so cool in the bushwick

0:06.6

We have TV I here

0:09.6

Yeah

0:10.2

Bushwick is lame

0:12.8

No what is this

0:15.2

15 years going to Creek and cave to do set huh?

0:20.0

Yeah

0:20.6

I mean it's interesting too because they there were going to Creek and Cave to do set, huh? No. Yeah.

0:21.6

I mean, it's interesting, too, because they, there was a stark difference in Bushwick and Ridgewood

0:27.0

residents because in Ridgewood, they didn't get sidewalks.

0:31.9

You just have more space here, you know?

0:34.5

Go ahead.

0:35.6

Well, kind of like that, yeah, because it was like a rural area, basically.

0:40.9

And so people, a Ridgewoodite could be singled out by taking to the middle of the street to walk.

0:48.3

They just, like, didn't like sidewalks.

0:51.5

And Ridgewood, I found this pretty fascinating fascinating too. Eventually they, they stopped this,

0:57.4

but Bushwick would get public water. Ridgewood had to pay money to this stupid company called the

1:05.0

Citizens Water Supply Company, which the city ended up condemning in 1924.

1:12.9

So they're kind of, you know, slowly becoming the same place.

1:16.2

And then, uh, you know, mid 20th century, there is, uh, white flights in a lot of different places.

1:25.3

New York, especially.

1:26.8

My family left the Bronx in the 1950s.

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