Gothamist: Harlem Rezoning Plan Approved, Residents Await

chris lee

Thu, 01 May 2008 09:46:27 -0500

This MYTH that you need blacks to spice up an urban area is just that.

The Edge

Thu, 17 Apr 2008 15:13:36 -0500

starrygordon, you could always move to Paterson, NJ. Or Newark. Or Atlantic City. Cuz those places are quite "gritty".

Ph

Thu, 17 Apr 2008 15:13:03 -0500

Its not so much the poor I feel bad for, its the working class people (and yes, contrary to popular belief, most of the people in the places you fuckers never go to are just average people that go to work and get by as well as they can) who have lived there all their lives and now will find themselves uprooted from probably the only place they've known. Mobility doesn't come easy to those people.

Think twice

Thu, 17 Apr 2008 15:12:37 -0500

Re: #7 Amen.

Nick S

Thu, 17 Apr 2008 14:31:15 -0500

"Why don't you and they move back out there, if you crave safety and sterility so much?" because new york is where I have to live to achieve the goals I have set out for myself, and I'd rather live in a safe, clean city than a dangerous, dirty one? seems like pretty logical thinking to me. i really dont know when a city being dangerous became desirable.

Think twice

Thu, 17 Apr 2008 14:13:27 -0500

This city government is obsessed with propping up the welfare state. "there won't be any black residents in white, rich Harlem." Probably weren't any when Harlem was a small town. Perhaps those old townsfolk felt entitled to keep it farmland when blacks began to move into the new brownstones being built.

starrygordon

Thu, 17 Apr 2008 11:47:32 -0500

I don't see turning everything into a mall and a parking lot as progress. In fact, a lot of gentrification is apparently driven by young adults fleeing the vast wasteland of American suburban life. Unfortunately they're bringing the wasteland with them. Why don't you and they move back out there, if you crave safety and sterility so much?

Nick S

Thu, 17 Apr 2008 11:20:24 -0500

yes, let's resist progress and let criminals run wild in certain neighborhoods.. that'll ensure new york keeps its "gritty" feel.

starrygordon

Thu, 17 Apr 2008 11:12:56 -0500

The plan describes how Harlem will be gentrified. Specifically Black culture will have to carry on elsewhere: like Soho, the Lower East Side, Chelsea, Yorkville, Williamsburg, or any other neighborhood where the rich want to live, Harlem will be turned into a sort of vertical suburb built over a mall at street level just like every other gentrified neighborhood. It won't be "all White"; there are some rich Black people who will be sprinkled among the gentry. But they will be as glitzy, bland, and dumb as the rest. You'll hardly be able to tell them apart.

Nick S

Thu, 17 Apr 2008 10:56:04 -0500

i'm not seeing any rich white people attacking and chasing students into traffic. so, uh, upgrade.

camarilla

Thu, 17 Apr 2008 10:30:31 -0500

"Forty-six percent of the new housing units created under the plan will be income-targeted, using a combination of incentives to builders to provide 'affordable housing' as well as an agreement with the city to create MORE PUBLIC HOUSING UNITS." - NY Sun (emphasis added) Don't worry, bringing in and permanently rooting even more criminals and juvenile delinquents than we already have up here will prevent it from ever becoming rich and white.