Gothamist: Video of the Day: Carroll Gardens Gentrifiers Speak Out

Dave Hogarty

Tue, 24 Jun 2008 00:24:35 -0500

It's official: 9 out of 10 Internet users have officially abandoned their senses of humor in favor of misplaced bilious outrage. For what it's worth. I though that was fairly funny guys. Thanks for putting in the time to produce some shareable satire.

kcin122

Tue, 24 Jun 2008 00:17:56 -0500

sorry sonyactivsion but your seriously out of touch. The majority of "hipsters" I know all have coke additions and are seriously fucked up. Keep on pretending that the east village was more badass than bushwick is today. if these hip kids of yore were so awesome they would have been in bushwick in '77 and not sucking on the teet of the mother wolf somewhere on ave A. FUCKING LAME SHIT

sonyactivision

Mon, 23 Jun 2008 21:06:44 -0500

That's the difference between the hip kids of yore, and the stupid fucking Hipsters today: drugs. Back in the good 'ol East Villiage days, the kids craved the dope in the hood, cocaine, heroin, all that great stuff. Nowadays, these shitty little brats just want their pussy pot and local lager. Fuck them, their 'safe party' is over. The junkies are coming back and they're going to stab them, steal their bike, trade it for a gram of smack, get high in their doorway and shit all over their stoop.

matty

Mon, 23 Jun 2008 17:16:44 -0500

kcin - yep. My parents went to the garfield park conservatory and were followed back to the EL by a squad car. When they got there the guy poliltely asked "what the fuck are you doing out here?"

kcin122

Mon, 23 Jun 2008 17:02:22 -0500

speaking of west Chicago. I had a friend that lived there and did community work with a church for a summer by Garfield Park. One day he got off the El and a Cop grabbed, cuffed and searched him. The reasoning was the only white people in the area where buying or already had drugs on them. sucks.

salad

Mon, 23 Jun 2008 16:55:50 -0500

aarrrgghh! *fist*

plk779

Mon, 23 Jun 2008 16:33:56 -0500

I used to live in Bed-Stuy but not by choice, it was within walking distance of school and the only place I could afford. As soon as I graduated I moved to Queens so I don't have to deal with bullshit from either side of the gentrification drama. I know a lot of it is kids wanting to be hip, but some of it is legitimately also because these neighborhoods are CHEAP to live in. And contrary to popular belief, not all white kids have trust funds.

brooklynbee

Mon, 23 Jun 2008 16:29:21 -0500

"where does carrol gardens start and brooklyn heights end?" Cobble Hill is in between CG and BH.

matty

Mon, 23 Jun 2008 16:22:58 -0500

"alittle too real i guess." ahah. Yeah no hipsters over on the West side of Chicago either.

kcin122

Mon, 23 Jun 2008 15:54:08 -0500

as far as the ghetto is concerned I should have been more specific. The white suburbanites perception of the ghetto. Any where filled with mainly ethnic, poor working class people with relatively high crime. Bushwick in 2008, Williamsburg in 1998. East Village in 1977 and so on. Carroll Gardens roughly fit this up until the last 90's. with that being said i didn't see any white people in west Philly when I drove through it last month. alittle too real i guess.

kcin122

Mon, 23 Jun 2008 15:46:27 -0500

"my" hood? you dont own the hood brah that is unless you took it from the dutch a few centuries ago.

sumo71

Mon, 23 Jun 2008 15:45:13 -0500

carroll gardens was never a ghetto and just to let you know, nobody moves to the ghetto unless it's their last option. now if you're talking about a hood that's up and coming that's a different story. i think most people have never been to a ghetto and have the wrong idea of what one is

whantmoore

Mon, 23 Jun 2008 15:42:25 -0500

I am so glad that they are doing this in Brooklyn I hope the can get the ppl who are invading my hood over to Brooklyn and out of the LES

kcin122

Mon, 23 Jun 2008 15:37:10 -0500

people from the suburbs long for something authentic and real. Thats why the move to the ghetto, they want to experience something outside of what they have experienced for the majority of their lives. not everyone feels this way but everyone who leaves does. when the area the suburbanite moved to is no longer "real and authentic" to them and is filled with people like them they get pissed off.

neckbeard

Mon, 23 Jun 2008 15:36:24 -0500

i kind of get confused. where does carrol gardens start and brooklyn heights end?

matty

Mon, 23 Jun 2008 15:22:59 -0500

White people are seriously neurotic. I can't believe you feel guilty for living somewhere.

sumo71

Mon, 23 Jun 2008 15:02:09 -0500

this had so much potential but it failed because it was the truth as a resident of the gardens from 94 to 02 the thing that i loved about the hood was how i was embraced, and i'm not italian, i'm dominican. but the change that occured, especially on smith st made everything so unfamiliar at the time i knew so many people now i live in the slope and have been here since 02 and when i go back to the gardens it seems so foreign, and that really makes me sad because the time that i lived there was probably the best of my life

esquared

Mon, 23 Jun 2008 14:52:26 -0500

#1, I agree. Here are more "defense" to their gentrification" "they have many great drug stores" "i've lived here for 9 months" "there are many mom and pop shops that are coming and going" -- I don't see any one coming, most are going "crown heights is where they had the riots...so we don't go there" "I'm originally form Long Island" -- well at least, he's not from Ohio I surely hope that # 2 is rigth

jason1107

Mon, 23 Jun 2008 14:36:10 -0500

aa77, I think the clip is tongue-in-cheek. it's a parody.

aa77

Mon, 23 Jun 2008 14:33:56 -0500

good lord. please save brooklyn! this video was supposed to be in defense of the people moving into brooklyn?? this video shows exactly why gentrification is destroying brooklyn. "i hear the weekends are nice...I am in the hamptons" "they have places where you can get subway-style sandwiches" "i love going to the neighborhood coffee shop (starbucks)" this video was very depressing.