tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-683382864156505640.post5963833412199567985..comments2023-08-14T11:44:27.299-04:00Comments on Jeremiah's<br> Vanishing New York: On Spike Lee & Hyper-Gentrification, the Monster That Ate New YorkJeremiah Mosshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11791516443125872364noreply@blogger.comBlogger100125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-683382864156505640.post-41147436284408060072018-03-20T16:26:49.820-04:002018-03-20T16:26:49.820-04:00fuck
fuck<br />Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-683382864156505640.post-36237887550781096182016-04-17T18:04:07.405-04:002016-04-17T18:04:07.405-04:00P.S. Even in Perth, Australia in 1970s, historic a...P.S. Even in Perth, Australia in 1970s, historic affordable building were vanishing. Now the ones that were not demolished are for $quillionaiares only! Watch ABCTV Video interview of Hare's first book, Vanishing Ink, published in Perth, Western Australia in 1974:<br />https://youtu.be/i-QSyIkNyQIAwe-Inspiring Earth: People, Places and Things!https://www.blogger.com/profile/11389400752670934586noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-683382864156505640.post-6290411436831472202016-04-17T18:02:41.499-04:002016-04-17T18:02:41.499-04:00Quite a change from 1940s, my earliest childhood d...Quite a change from 1940s, my earliest childhood days in cities. Also a radical departure from the federal plan of permanent "Dispersal" in 1950s+ to today's "$quillionaires Only." Video about federal impact of Dispersal on small city near NYC: https://youtu.be/_vlPTICkamw Awe-Inspiring Earth: People, Places and Things!https://www.blogger.com/profile/11389400752670934586noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-683382864156505640.post-19327092584302416702015-10-28T03:18:26.167-04:002015-10-28T03:18:26.167-04:00By the way, here's the solution to EVERYTHING....By the way, here's the solution to EVERYTHING. "Legalize" and let the government distribute drugs, take it out of the hands of drug dealers. I guarantee you crime will instantly be cut in half. Include rehab programs, clinics, counseling, etc...,Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-683382864156505640.post-44771618071513191072015-10-28T03:12:02.509-04:002015-10-28T03:12:02.509-04:00Hyper-gentrification may be a reaction to the hype...Hyper-gentrification may be a reaction to the hyper-ghettoization that HUD created in the 60's and 70's.East New York, the Grand Concourse, etc... were once affluent white neighborhoods until nearby housing projects and rampant violent crime chased whites out. I'm definitely a fan of neither "hypers". Social mobility too, saw whites and blacks leave N.Y.. Now Chinese, Indian, Mexican, and eastern Europeans have become the new ethnic face of N.Y.. Uncharted greed and corruption is at the center of all of this. The money that has been passed through the hands of public servants,(and into their pockets)has twisted their ability to do what's best for the people they're supposed to be serving. Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-683382864156505640.post-32621477037158327912015-05-13T07:52:57.463-04:002015-05-13T07:52:57.463-04:00This is happening in Beacon, NY right now. Brookl...This is happening in Beacon, NY right now. Brooklynites priced out of Brooklyn have moved up and transformed Main St that just last year had many diverse shops into baby shop after baby shop after baby shop. What used to be a fun pace to hang out on the weekends is now only fun if you have a stroller. I'm glad people are moving up, I did too...but really stop messing with the local flavors.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-683382864156505640.post-9824102301050496052015-05-03T19:05:47.818-04:002015-05-03T19:05:47.818-04:00I read David Byrne's piece. I thought it was m...I read David Byrne's piece. I thought it was measured, despite the anger and use of the word "fuck".<br /><br />Spike Lee is a hothead and David Byrne is not; I don't think it's a racial issue in this case.isomorphismeshttp://isomorphism.esnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-683382864156505640.post-45435495824930989352015-03-16T14:57:37.695-04:002015-03-16T14:57:37.695-04:00I remember first visiting NYC as a kid in 1979. K...I remember first visiting NYC as a kid in 1979. Koch was mayor and Gotham was in deep, deep guano. Remember then? I'll never forget walking through Alphabet City (I was a kid and had no idea how dangerous it was) and seeing a dead body fall from an upper window onto the sidewalk one block ahead of where I was standing. <br /><br />People fear change because they don't understand it. When I read pieces like this one (anti-corporation, anti-white, anti-success, anti-this/that, hypocrisy's OK as long as a hypocrite's on my side), it's a pious plea for eventual taxpayer subsidization in some form or another. After all, if a small mom/pop business can't afford rent and refuses to change its business model and it's serving an ever-smaller market for whatever they're selling and people happen to prefer clean/shiny/new to old/dirty/smelly/grimy/surly, they deserve to be subsidized, right? Is it money you resent? <br /><br />By the way, the best coffee's in Jersey and it has been that way for decades. Mousehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15242005980195348193noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-683382864156505640.post-47465940829060657762014-12-23T15:21:02.111-05:002014-12-23T15:21:02.111-05:00Great post. I prefer the term UBER-GENTRIFICATIONGreat post. I prefer the term UBER-GENTRIFICATIONAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-683382864156505640.post-89881177648726703772014-08-03T22:09:25.036-04:002014-08-03T22:09:25.036-04:00Finally read your blog! For many years, I felt th...Finally read your blog! For many years, I felt that the tidal ,tsunami like changes going 'round my Brooklyn neighborhood were meant to be. The same things we worry about now were the same things that people 100 yrs. ago worried about. <br /><br />I don't think there are any easy answers, but just like a wave, it will crest. The up and down cycle will continue and somewhere in the dim corners of this magnificent city, a new "underground" of similar minded people with empathy and passion and a "Do The Right Thing" mentality will take this city back from the power brokers! Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-683382864156505640.post-77616631122190577612014-07-27T22:56:29.957-04:002014-07-27T22:56:29.957-04:00New Yorkers have been advertising and selling New ...New Yorkers have been advertising and selling New York for a long time. Technology just speeds things up. Sex in the City, Seinfeld, etc. You guys brought us here!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-683382864156505640.post-80532253045102628402014-07-21T20:46:01.802-04:002014-07-21T20:46:01.802-04:00Jeremiah,
Long time reading, first time commentin...Jeremiah,<br /><br />Long time reading, first time commenting....This is one of your finest posts. I liked the detail and thought you put into writing about such a complex subject. I think it's important to keep this conversation going, so we can all figure out what's really happening here in our city together.Riffchorusriffhttp://notesonnewyork.tumblr.com/noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-683382864156505640.post-29241278557675714252014-05-31T15:42:06.535-04:002014-05-31T15:42:06.535-04:00Nice try but I don't buy it.
I grew up in B...Nice try but I don't buy it. <br /><br />I grew up in Brooklyn, both my parents grew up in Brooklyn, having been brought up there by my grandparents who immigrated from Ireland. <br /><br />My mother grew up in Park Slope, which, during the fifties and sixties, was a predominantly working-class Irish neighborhood, and my dad grew up in East Flatbush, which, at the time, also during the fifties and sixties, was a largely Irish, Italian, and Jewish neighborhood. Today, both neighborhoods are strikingly different. <br /><br />Shortly after I was born in the early eighties, my parents bought a Victorian house in Flatbush, Brooklyn. The house came with stained glass windows and bells on the floor to alert the maids. Our house, like many of the other Victorians and brownstones in Brooklyn, had been designed by prominent architects at the turn of the century for the wealthy people at the time. By the time my parents came to inhabit it, there was gunfire routinely heard outside our windows and my brothers routinely got jumped. Once, there was a police shooting in which there was so many shots fired you could smell the gun powder from the porch. Which was why a family like mine (9 people with only one parent working as a secretary), could afford to live in a home with a maid's room. <br /><br />So yeah, the Bloomberg administration helped bring in the developers, but the developers only came because they knew that since the crime rates were now at a historically low point, WHITE PEOPLE WHO WEREN'T WHITE TRASH WOULD RENT/BUY THEM. <br /><br />It's supply and demand, not a conspiracy.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-683382864156505640.post-62898788240625307112014-04-29T23:45:20.646-04:002014-04-29T23:45:20.646-04:00Spike Lee is a racist hypocrite. I'll bet he ...Spike Lee is a racist hypocrite. I'll bet he would be all for the proposed renaming of Sedgwick Avenue in the Bronx to "Hip Hop Boulevard" to honor it as the birthplace of Hip Hop. Meanwhile what about all the people who grew up on Sedgwick Avenue whose families lived there for decades before the Hip Hop crowd moved in and don't want their childhood street identified with a type of music that has in its time been associated with gangs, violence and drugs? I could quote him back to himself: "I’m for democracy and letting everybody live, but you gotta have some respect. You can’t just come in when people have a culture that’s been laid down for generations, and you come in and now shit gotta change because you’re here? Get the &*!^ outta here. Can’t do that!" Well, touché Spike, I could say that back to YOU. What about all the "respect" the people who moved into the Bronx in the 60s and 70s showed it when they turned it into nothing but a violent slum? How does he think the people who lived there felt about having to leave a place they loved and watch it be destroyed? If a white person said what he said about their neighborhood he would call them a racist. Well, I have news for him - HE is a racist hypocrite!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-683382864156505640.post-27236852280858752902014-04-24T12:27:05.806-04:002014-04-24T12:27:05.806-04:00Can't believe I am weighing in on this. The p...Can't believe I am weighing in on this. The point that is missed? Services got better and crime plummeted across the city, in neighborhoods that were primarily white, black, hispanic, etc. Because of that, people moved to less expensive areas that they wouldn't have otherwise moved to. So builders built more, prices went up, and around it goes. Happened in Greenpoint, a previously white, working class polish neighborhood just like it did in Fort Green.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-683382864156505640.post-52100094179540824812014-04-16T10:03:40.248-04:002014-04-16T10:03:40.248-04:00Concerning Spike Lee, people forget that with fame...Concerning Spike Lee, people forget that with fame and fortune, come the psychos or people looking for a helping hand. He had no choice but to move from Ft. Greene because everyone knew where he lived and people were ringing his door bell at odd hours of the night. He feared for the safety of his family as anyone would. So, he is by far a hypocrite, actually its nice to see he is still concerned about his old neighborhood though all of his remarks may not be on point. Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-683382864156505640.post-10697417464698437282014-04-09T12:08:03.131-04:002014-04-09T12:08:03.131-04:00The crime is not eliminated, only relocated. Forme...The crime is not eliminated, only relocated. Former New Yorkers have moved to cities like Philly, and the resulting crime increases have triggered white flight there [just look at SW Philly]. So what it's really doing is making it someone else's problem.<br /><br />If you really want to get rid of the crime instead of just moving it around you have to get rid of the economic inequality, and/or bring about a better approach to mental health treatment [addiction would fall under this IMHO].sgath92https://www.blogger.com/profile/10389957945145014568noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-683382864156505640.post-71722842516518406382014-04-09T11:57:38.151-04:002014-04-09T11:57:38.151-04:00"Why did it take white people moving to Fort ..."Why did it take white people moving to Fort Greene (or many other neighborhoods) to get regular trash pick up..."<br /><br />The problem is revenue. Services like trash pickup have to be paid for using taxes, and when the incomes of a city's residents goes down [see: Detroit] there isn't enough money for the city to adequately fulfill these civic responsibilities and then a snowballing effect starts as budget problems get worse. Gentrification, regardless its morality problems, causes an increase in revenue. The polar opposite of massive gentrification is urban flight, which has the reverse effect on revenue.<br /><br />Its not quite that simple however, once you start talking about education. If you look at education spending per student, many poorly performing urban districts spend more per student than what you'll find in some rural or suburban districts that perform better. Money alone is not a good fix for say, language barriers [like if you're dealing with an immigrant population], or lack of parental involvement. How many urban poor parents don't have time to make it to PTA meetings because they're trying to balance numerous part time jobs? How many think education isn't worth the effort, because it wasn't enough to make a difference in their own lives? sgath92https://www.blogger.com/profile/10389957945145014568noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-683382864156505640.post-4515374214668129902014-04-09T11:28:49.492-04:002014-04-09T11:28:49.492-04:00Not every city is going to become a corporatized c...Not every city is going to become a corporatized city like NYC & London are turning into. There's a spectrum involved here, and on the opposite end of it you find cities like Detroit & Camden where the country's poorest are left to fend for themselves. The poor who have been displaced are ending up in cities that are on that lower end of the spectrum, moving to places like Newark, Philly, Buffalo, etc. where things are not well off, but not as far gone as the post apocalyptic dystopia known as Detroit. Crime & poverty are linked for obvious reasons, and a quick look at the police blotter in cities like Allentown & Philly in recent years will show you countless entries of "no known current address, formerly of New York City."<br /><br />Another thing you have to remember is that as people are pushed into poverty, that money is going to someone higher up in the marketplace. The first years of this "great recession" were a boom to luxury sales. Rolls Royce sales went up 130% as a direct result of the 2008 crash [not an exaggeration, you can google that statistic]. sgath92https://www.blogger.com/profile/10389957945145014568noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-683382864156505640.post-65335593469889220092014-04-08T17:13:54.571-04:002014-04-08T17:13:54.571-04:00*****WAR*****
*****WAR*****<br />Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-683382864156505640.post-40674068964756196502014-03-29T11:57:15.160-04:002014-03-29T11:57:15.160-04:00Wonderful. Have you pitched it to Adam Moss? Or ...Wonderful. Have you pitched it to Adam Moss? Or the Voice? You should.Anne Phelanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01652406810655505449noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-683382864156505640.post-78034971976732001382014-03-26T19:10:54.430-04:002014-03-26T19:10:54.430-04:00Thank you for taking the time to share your well-a...Thank you for taking the time to share your well-articulated thoughts on the topic.<br /><br />I haven't lived in New York very long -- only a little over three years -- and even I sense that something's not quite right with the way the city is changing. As an outsider looking in, when I moved to New York, what attracted me was New York's diversity -- both social and ethnic. I thought New York could sustain such diversity, but clearly this is not the case. In the very short time that I have been here I witnessed the complete transformation of Williamsburg from an already-gentrified yuppy neighborhood to a disneyland for the nouveau rich.<br /><br />Recently I have been frequently visiting Crown Heights, and the gentrification there is very apparent. However, something about the process there strikes me more as the old-school gentrification -- anachronous with the hyper-gentrification sweeping most of the city. But then again it may just be the nascency of the process that deludes.<br /><br />What makes an economically and ethnically diverse society in a city sustainable? Is it that there is always a certain amount of dynamism that makes a city sustainable (a city with a mix of middle-class and poor versus rich and even richer?) and that the specific components that make it diverse are constantly in flux? Is the world slowly becoming fairer somehow and hence creating a system of cycling through city dwellers?Premshreehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03776310252062170885noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-683382864156505640.post-49362683493509771392014-03-26T14:04:10.824-04:002014-03-26T14:04:10.824-04:00I lived in the East Village in the 80's (tho b...I lived in the East Village in the 80's (tho broke, I guess that being a white/performer/club goer made me part of that gentrification) and am still boggled that dinner for two on Ave. B costs as much or more as my rent back then. I was always afraid of being mugged, horrified by buildings hollowed out by fire and shooting galleries. Yet I -and so many others - thrived on the energy, the adventure, the sense of possibility, and think the determination it took to negotiate those times also helped drive people to achieve - and to try new things. I saw the same thing happen on South Beach, and am now watching the same process in Wynwood/the Design District. I don't know how you fight it, and it saddens and angers me deeply. Isn't there some way to balance quality of life for a wider range of people?<br />In New York I wonder - what happens to the workers who service the rich who are taking over the city? The coffee barista, the chain store salesperson, the waitress in the gourmet restaurant, even the dancers and actors and musicians and artists who provide their much valued/vaunted culture? Where do they live? How long will their subway rides get before they give up and go elsewhere? And then who will wait on the billionaires?<br />Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-683382864156505640.post-86112859699646033452014-03-25T11:57:45.982-04:002014-03-25T11:57:45.982-04:00thanks for that, Anon. led me to this: http://www....thanks for that, Anon. led me to this: http://www.versobooks.com/blogs/1155-why-aren-t-the-left-thinking-about-what-the-hell-s-going-on-david-harvey-meets-icon-magazineJeremiah Mosshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11791516443125872364noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-683382864156505640.post-41867875324633195622014-03-25T11:38:06.034-04:002014-03-25T11:38:06.034-04:00@ John K. "
"All of this has been writte...@ John K. "<br />"All of this has been written about by very able scholars and critics, so perhaps Jeremiah and others might consider posting a reading list for those who think this is just speculation or hypernostalgia" <br /><br />Here's one, although it's not just about NY but other cities undergoing hyper-gentrification as well.<br /><br />Rebel Cities: From the Right to the City to the Urban Revolution by Harvey, David Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com