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There Goes the Neighborhood

There Went the Neighborhood

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

4.8543 Ratings

🗓️ 4 May 2016

⏱️ 23 minutes

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Summary

The team behind There Goes the Neighborhood talks about what they've learned throughout the process of making the podcast, and how to move forward in a post-gentrified Brooklyn. Where do we go from here? How do we reconcile with what now seems the inevitability of gentrification not just in Brooklyn, but nationwide?

Transcript

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0:00.0

Previously, on There Goes the Neighborhood.

0:02.1

This is a phenomenon that everybody sees, everybody feels, but somehow isn't in the center of the

0:14.6

discussion where it needs to be. I'm, of course, talking about gentrification.

0:19.0

The city actually has been in what is legally known as a housing emergency for decades.

0:24.0

I'm not ready to sell.

0:26.0

I am ready to sell yet, and I need them to leave me alone.

0:29.8

He said, well, I came to offer you some money.

0:32.0

If you move by this certain amount of time, I'm going to give you $5,000.

0:36.4

I say, you are out of your mind you have

0:37.9

felt and bumped your head they will invite themselves in your home and present themselves as

0:43.9

your friend we live on Bobby as family we all there for each other when we built the middle

0:52.4

class in this country we made decisions about who was going to

0:56.4

benefit.

0:57.5

And we decided black people weren't a part of that.

1:00.2

When everybody gave up on the neighborhood, we didn't.

1:04.5

We stood in the neighborhood.

1:06.6

We worked it out.

1:07.6

And we made it the better place that everybody wants to invest into now.

1:14.5

There goes to the neighborhood.

1:16.4

There goes the neighborhood.

1:17.4

There goes the neighborhood.

1:21.4

I'm Kai Wright.

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