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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

🗓️ 2 March 2016

⏱️ 5 minutes

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Summary

There Goes the Neighborhood takes an in-depth look at gentrification in Brooklyn and the integral role that race plays in the process. Developers from all over the globe are hunting New York City, looking for deals that will allow them to “revitalize” neighborhoods, and make a few bucks in the process. But to many tenants and homeowners, it feels like a violent shove out of the way, especially for black and brown Brooklynites who have lived here for generations. Add to the drama the fact that the nation’s most progressive mayor has a plan to slow down gentrification, and encourage developers to create more affordable housing rather than luxury condos. Only, people are marching in the street stop it. Beginning March 9, listen in to discover how the process is playing out. 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 here 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.
0:32.6	We're not.
0:33.6	He's not.
0:34.6	He's not.
0:36.6	It's not. It's 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 it right in the 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.
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