Greenpoint Gentrification

[Kronikman1]

@pendragon1717 I've lived here all my life and the fact that greenpoint has become a nicer, cleaner, and safer neighborhood is great. But look at it from this perspective: what's the point of all that if I won't be able to afford to live here soon? It has its pros and its cons. Pros for the wealthier and cons for the poorer.

[Pendragon1717]

Who wants luxury condos, a nice entertainment district, fine dining, and a peaceful community of law abiding citizens? Much better to live in a crack infested ghetto, filled with gang-bangers, drive by's, crumbling buildings and vacant store fronts. Yeah, that's fucking paradise!! LOL

[monkeyturds23]

I grew up on Long Island and recently moved to Greenpoint to be closer to work. I am viewed as one of these people that should "get out of your neighborhoods." I understand this sentiment, but what must be understood is the fact that many young people aka "hipsters" are also disgusted with the high rise apartments going up everywhere. I am struggling to pay rent too. I am lumped in a category as a transplant who is ruining your neighborhood. That's not my intention, I'm just trying to live .

[mindstormsabrewin]

@monkeyturds23 You only moved here because you heard it was "hip". Driving me out may not be your intention but that's exactly what you're doing.

[Spaky3890]

Hi all, im doing a project on Gentrification in Greenpoint, if anyone else has any strong opinions on this matter, please reply to this post and it would be very helpful. Thanks!

[DannyJustiniano]

Oh god, please wake me up from this nightmare! :'(

[BabyGirlGoddess]

i really wanted to live in NYC, but i visited once and it felt as if it lost its "flavor" that is often portrayed on t.v. i was expecting something with culture, arts, graffiti...

[guitarshredder920]

@BabyGirlGoddess NO you stay were you are from. We don't need anymore fucking yuppies here in Brooklyn.

[BabyGirlGoddess]

@guitarshredder920

lol. wait...what if i'm not rich? : /

[themelshow]

lol....

[Shutternut22]

The yuppies/Chicken Farmers need to be stopped, they ruined this beatiful quiet neighborhood. I wish they would just go back to where ever they freakin came from and destroy their neighborhoods !!!!!!!!!!!!!

[viciouscircle23M]

these are not fake. . .just take a walk through greenpoint

you will see how out of place it looks

and those prices are about right (to buy)

[hoganik89]

greenpoint isn't affordable anymore

[ProActionCommittee]

so now we know there is gentrification what do we do.

[ktl238]

Why can't they build small, MODEST apartments instead?

I just moved to NY and chose Greenpoint because it's a middle class neighborhood with a rich culture and community.

Williamsburg can keep the 20-somethings whose parents pay rent. This 20-something wants to keep living a middle-class lifestyle and shopping @ independent retailers/Polish markets. A neighborhood thrives on diversity & can't sustain itself on just the rich. You can improve the area without over-gentrifying

[NYPDTB]

fuck you.

improve the area?

fuck you shit face.

why don't you go back to where ever the fuck you came from. your not improving anything at all, my family has been here since 1949, your going to improve us too? thats the problem with you yuppies or w/e the fuck you call yourselves, everyone is inferior to you, yuppies have been destroying my neighborhood... what improvement.

fuck you.

[JOEYGOLDCOMEDY]

@NYPDTB right on

you summed it all up 4 every1 !

[rbolo29]

Gentrification sounds like a new age of genocide.

[Samngchaoyu]

this are fake.i see in google street view that the oak street and west street has a lot of abandoned building,where got luxury loft?

[arekskwarek]

fuck these yuppies that are moving into greenpoint. the greenpoint nazis will carry out the final solution!!

[johnbourbon]

here's a great idea: save up for your entire life to open your own small business (like a building in brooklyn) just to have retards like this voice-over douche criticize you for having the nerve to want to make money.

move to north korea...where everyone's equal!!!

[SnApnea]

Small business's don't necessarily equal this kind of gentrification.

Small businesses are encouraged.

[ericnowcool]

looks like shit

[papsworth]

They forgot to mention the neighborhood reeks of raw sewage.

[vivelecorn]

Good, move all of the hipster and yuppie scum to Greenpoint... they can all die and mutate from the 70's oil spill form Exxon which is still seeping underground today in Greenpoint and parts of Williamsburg... but of course, real estate folks won't mention that to them. Heck, not many people even know about that!

[SnApnea]

Once upon a time Greenpoint was an awesome place.

[mypinnumberis]

Gentrification is a multifaceted speculative process. It is a topic bound by purely individualistic interpretations. No one really has a conclusive definition. It remains an indistinct and ambiguous process. Love the video. cheeeers

[IdidURmom2]

rich people have no respect... all they care about is themselves

[haitianzoezoe]

very tru

[johnbourbon]

stop whining.

[IdidURmom2]

true

[SnApnea]

See, but the hipsters that move into these apts/condos/lofts aren't rich.

[haitianzoezoe]

well you can say they are, since mommy and daddy are paying their rent

[Ytaittdsas]

@IdidURmom2 No. All they care about is money.

[IdidURmom2]

gay... thats why rent is going up

[HardBodyNyC]

Jews did wtc.

[XxUltraViolencexX]

Gentrification has destroyed our once affordable beautiful city. I hate it.

[BackToBasikz]

survival of the fittest!

[jonathanhuntercrooks]

1 BR $465,007

I'd say FUCK YOU!!!!!!!!

I Go Crack some hips and yups

im sure to get a cheaper place say 500 for 1 br

[matoukhes]

As a native New Yorker, I get truly offended when transplants try to turn my city into a west-coast, corporate, single culture waste land. Yeah, the eighties were rough, but we stuck around in our beloved city. Just watch the economy continue to take a downturn, all the hipster drek will fly back to buttmunch iowa or nebraska.

[51455]

You native New Yorkers need to figure out how to attract some proper "transplants" who will rid NYC of its graffiti and rust without trampling on the character of your wonderful city.

[muzzro]

Interesting, but no.

[hatchbx]

Ridding NYC of its graffiti would absolutely destroy the character of the city. Are you kidding?

[51455]

I wasn't kidding. Didn't realize ridding NYC of its graffiti would absolutely destroy the character of the city.

Thanks for the info.

[Izakokomarixyz]

Graffiti originated in new york and it will stay in new york...

[51455]

Trust me, graffiti did not stay in New York.

[Izakokomarixyz]

Did not stay? Well it stayed but spread throughout the rest of the world... NYC will always have graffiti...

[Ytaittdsas]

@51455 "...your wonderful city."

You just said it was already wonderful. Why change it then?

GTFO!

[51455]

@Ytaittdsas Let me explain, "your wonderful city" was a sarcastic comment. Sorry you didn't get it.

[Izakokomarixyz]

It's time for crime to rise again... the yuppies will run away.... it's simple.... really.

[Ytaittdsas]

@Izakokomarixyz Amen.

[mosiek29]

If you need more info about greenpoint you can go to VisitGreenpoint . com

[babaracass]

These kids arent from NYC and never grew up there in the 70s or 80 or early to mid 90s when shit was bad. They never had to escort their mom home from the corner storehile his hands are down his pants.

[Izakokomarixyz]

werd

[babaracass]

i love kids and their "Save Brooklyn" t-shirts. Running around the city ranting and raving about how "their" neighbor hood changed oh so much and they cant afford to live there anymore more. Bull shit.

[glorialucia]

0:27 I went to that school behind that structure, when I went back last year for my elementry school reunion I could NOT believe how much change could happen in just 10 years.

[fuckoff688]

FUCK DEM YUPPIES

[ruinedbydems]

Yes, that makes a lot of sense. Fuck all those yuppies who are paying the taxes to support the public housing that exists in poor neighborhoods, that provide the grants for these community protests and organizations, and that funds food stamp and public health clinics people in the neighborhoods frequent. Yeah, fuck 'em.

[haitianzoezoe]

???

[Ytaittdsas]

@ruinedbydems All that funding was there BEFORE the yuppies and hipsters came invading. You need to STFU

[Jlois87]

It was for Architectural Theory. My group had to discuss Latin America and Gentrification. We had our Power point presentation already but I wanted a video. When I found ur I was like OH YES. People were laughing as well as seriously quesitoning gentrification and its effects. It was great.

[Jlois87]

Got to say this is sooooo funny. I used this of my project in class to explain the seriousness of Gentrification in a light way. Thanks for posting the video. Its informative and FUNNNNNNY.

[craztops]

glad you enjoyed it. what was your class project? how did you show the video?

[dub360]

Can someone tell me what so luxurious about a 750sq ft , 2 bedroom apartment , built by an illegal Mexican who has no construction skills?

Oh that's right,stainless steal appliances

[qolspony]

This is not such a related post, but it does concern Greenpoint (the area directly south of Queens (separated by a river). Anyway, now if I visit this area, I wouldn't even recognize it. There is one good thing coming out of this though, unlike Western Queens, Northern Bklyn was never good about giving access to its vast waterfronts. At least now, with the redevelopment of the Navy Yard, it would happen. Unfortunately, out of the expense of throwing out poor working class people.

[qolspony]

I lost my apt. in Astoria, Queens due to gentrification. But I do remember before my demise happened hearing the news of suspicious fires happening all over Greenpoint. The landlords had people set the fires for them so the buildings become condemned and they cash in on the land.

[qolspony]

I should add, the landlords purposely moved in bad tenants and hired professional arsonist to do the job for them. Of course it can't be proven. But look at the history of how the landlords destroyed their buildings in the Bronx. Landlords are business men (and women) who will do anything to make a dollar. Just think of them as a Walmart or a fortune 500 company.

[Joshuabishop]

The power of now!!!!!

[shannon718]

Kudos on this!!!

I hate yuppies!!!

[HardBodyNyC]

Start murdering people its a guarenteed way to lower rents and kick hipsters and yuppies out. Rape also works fairly well but it has to be done to the young. CRACK HEADS ALWAYS SCARE PEOPLE OUT OF NEIGHBORHOODS. Either of the 3 will work.

[Izakokomarixyz]

No, spare the new yorkers, murder the hipsters...

[Ytaittdsas]

@HardBodyNyC True that lol.

[again2021]

Enjoy your new luxury condos and rediculously high property tax today! (-_-)

[newyorklost]

Fed up with gentrification? Visit my channel to view the trailer for New York Lost!

[vam812]

This video is an accurate portrayal of what has been happening to this neighborhood for the past decade. Yuppies go home! All you do is grossly inflate the price of already existing housing and cause every piece of available undeveloped real estate to be a future site of "condo" development. Rents have gone from the mid-hundred price range to the lower thousand price range while the apartments and buildings that house them are the same dilapidated structures they've been for the last 80+ years.

[qwertyzzy]

most recent influx into the hood are largely renters thought. Yes, the prices have skyrocketed, but the biggest beneficiaries are the landlords, who by large, are people who have lived there for decades.

What do you do in an evergrowing city with limited space? You try to find housing to within your budget, while hopefully picking a decent neighborhood. Greenpoint should be proud that many are finding it to be a great place to live.

Condo thing is not going to happen. The bubble has burst.

[ilovelozenges]

The only way you can actually understand gentrification and how it effects you, is if you live through it. Good job on this vid! god, could people who don't actually live in Williamsburg stop pretending that they know the neighborhood? the last thing we need is MORE upper west siders coming into brooklyn to gentrify everything. The murals, the Dutch mustard building, all of these incredible examples of culture and history have been destroyed.

[JRubeus]

So fucking true.

[dnicenini]

I agree the landlords are benefitting.if these people are willing to pay ridiculous rents who can blame them.but for the ppl who are just becoming adults,if your parents dont own an apartment building your screwed. youll have to rent.and for someone just starting out you probably cant afford to live in the neighborhood u grew up in.the influx of some nice restaurants/bars was nice for a twenty somethinglike myself.but now its a new one every week,new building up every month.its too much!

[FrankeeFraud]

Here we go again! It's the "SYSTEM'S" fault! your envy of people who are successful won't put a dime in your pocket, but will make you bitter, and put you in an early grave Yes, pal, the lazy, unambitious poor will always be with us. Live with it.

[places584]

FrankeeFraud SHUT THE FUCK UP, STAY THE FUCK OUT OF MY NEIGHBORHOOD, AND GO BACK TO WHERE YOU WERE. IT'S THAT SIMPLE.YOU WANA LIVE AROUND BLASK AND POOR'S AND COMPLAIN THEN GET THE FUCK OUT. YOUR MAKING BUSINESS BAD FOR ME

[LadyJay114]

when you guys that pay $1M for a studio realize that your apartment sits on top of a chemical dump or an oil spill (in the case of Greenpoint) that was never cleaned up, don't come complaining about health problems in the future. Everyone in Brooklyn knows Greenpoint, Williamsburg and even the gentrified Gowanus area have HIGH cancer rates. Wake up!

[FrankeeFraud]

The Greenpoint Polacks are getting the last laugh! I'm glad their getting rich. Polacks are a hard working, property-owning people, who are selling their homes for a ton of money. Good for them! Now the lazy, sex-crazed, irresponsible Puerto Ricans can go back to Alphabet City where they belong......

[Adge187]

ahhh... the rants of the over-priveledged white person. You enjoy going to "Gentrification" to state your racist points (or lack thereof)... I doubt you'd understand half of the situation that people in poverty (the real people) have to deal with when gentrification hits their city.

[FrankeeFraud]

Ahem! Poor people are poor because they DESERVE to be poor! They are lazy, unabitious, and and stupid. Wake up & smell the landfill!

[Adge187]

riiiight, as if it has nothing to do with poor schooling, classism, racism, imperialism and capitalism AT ALL. By the looks of it, you're probably a makeshift patriots post 9/11 as well, blinded by what your government, media and "ig'nant" parent taught you... no offense. Anyways, I doubt you can relate to people on the bottom on the barrel, so it's better if you stay hush next time.

[Namrapus]

Gentrification is not just a poor black problem. I am from Somerville, Mass and we are experiencing the same problems and my neighborhood is poor Irish and Italian. Its a matter of class not race. The rising property values and displacement of the poor is just another example of hard working people, (thats right, poor people work harder than anyone out there) getting the shaft while the rich move in and take everything we built. "Kill a Yuppie" was our slogan, you can use it if you want.

[FrankeeFraud]

Schooling? Racism? imperialism? classism? Capitalism? Why not blame the Pelopenesean wars, while you're at it? You losers at the bottom of the financial barrel sure do find a lot of excuses for your OWN failures, don't you? A shame, cause the reason is always as close as your nearest mirror. There's no doubt that you'll be earning minimum-wage till you're sixty. And I'm sure you'll find someone ELSE to blame for that as well.....

[Adge187]

It's not an excuse, mr. put-words-in-my-mouth, but rather that the system has shown countless of times that it revolves aroudn what the rich and in power would like rather than the poor.... prove me wrong... look up how all those things I mentioned are valid. @ Nam, I'm not excluding poor whites, but rather stating that it's affecting more black/latino areas than others.

[Adge187]

Oh yeah, on that note... always remember that the working-class ARE the majority of this country... and so what they want to preserve is taken away and when they lack power due to a few little yuppies who want to invest into something for their own benefit, it'll always be a problem... and SHOULD always be a problem. There's a place in Hell for you, Frankee.

[ruinedbydems]

Uh, what you don't seem to understand is white people are in poverty too. Many of us started off worse off that the people in this neighborhood. My white great grandparents were treated worse than the black population when they stepped off the ships into NYC. You want to blame that on imperialism?

[TheJazzyMan1988]

Dude...I have respect for all races as a whole. It gets me mad as hell though when a black man acts like all white people are rich and hates them because he says "they owned slaves", I'm a Polish-American and I've heard there's many of them in Greenpoint especially; older Polish-Americans likely WERE slaves! Why does anyone hate an entire race is beyond me regardless though. White supremacy is just as stupid though. Nothin really works when it claims a whole race to be evil or inferior.

[stuffyhead]

All you Brooklyn scumbags are way more vulgar than a bunch of fey hipsters.

[LadyJay114]

awesome video. i got priced out of clinton hill and now I'm preparing to be priced out of coney island.

[ruinedbydems]

What do you do for a living?

[LadyJay114]

I'm an accountant.

[burntbrowniez]

yea... its only a matter of time before i cant afford to live here. Ive lived here my whole life.

[eliqueiros]

I got priced out of the neighborhood and city, but let me tell you, in case the neighborhood is whitewashed. I've never loved a neighborhood like I loved this one. No matter where I go, Greenpoint BK, will be my home. I hope it withstands this terrible pressure from the outside. This little tip of brooklyn is too precious to loose.

[LP1378]

Too little, too late. Between this, Atlantic Yards and Coney Island, Brooklyn is over for the middle class.

[eliqueiros]

when are new yorkers going to take back the city? One good '70's style riot and all these schmucks will go running back to where ever they came from!

[haitianzoezoe]

AGREED

[eliqueiros]

when are new yorkers going to take back the city? One good '70's style riot and all these schmucks will go running back to where ever they came from!

[Darc5155]

Haha good satire

[AKMxGPT]

none of this shit would have happened if the hipsters hadn't started movie in. theyve now brought in the yuppies. greenpoint needs to start a polish/irish mob and fucking blow up all this shit and beat up any hipster in greenpoint

[polskigangster10]

thats the reason we have these yuppies. there is no mob! =/

[heavychevy3000]

niektórzy mob się zmieniły na yuppies...

[QueensDynasty]

Nice video! I swear to god, they'll never get queens. They put an Applebees in Bed-Stuy and a Starbucks in the heights. please make it stop. Lukas Alpert, from the New York Post, cites that national chains such as Pizza Hut, Dominoes, and Papa John's had made an 80 percent gain in Manhattan store openings in the last five years. We need to keep the culture of NYC. I say we New Yorkers come together and start a civil war against these gentrifiers and the residents of the homes that they built!

[Ytaittdsas]

@QueensDynasty Corporate pizza chains (and just any corporate food chains) are shit. Their pizza taste like shit. I'd say buy local from your community businesses instead of that corporate crap.

[dstad]

I never thought I would hate living in Greenpoint, but I do now!

We got a billionaire mayor who could give two shits about affordable housing, a city council who could care even less, and a useless Dept. of Bldgs.

These bldgs. are vulgar, just like their occupants.

[mpaone]

How terrible. Gentrification is a problem, not a solution to urban poverty/community development. Good post.

[anonymous504]

is it real, or a joke?

[psleepy]

fuck outa greenpoint bitchess...

[BrooklynBalla]

man screw the government this rezoning is ruining greenpoint

[trevormail]

good stuff. gotta love the govt's definition of affordable housing!

[OrenIsCool]

haha, nice!