New construction in Humboldt Park

[Triumphit1]

No u fail to see the problem. Its not that "white people are coming in" making it better thats the good part. I would welcome that, its the Gentrification! Yuppies (regardless of race) are making it too expensive to live in what used to be a poor neighborhood.. in economic times like today its fucked up that the poor people are gonna get kicked out eventually because the yuppies wanna move everyone to the west and south sides...

[pheonixltt]

No more like the suburbs,Wisconsin,Indiana and Minn.

[sexyrican77trey]

this condo allready got taged on by LKs! anyway no one wants that stupid condo! yochicago! sell it for 50 gs! so we ricans can buy it no white crackas! we dont like crackas they stoopid! n full of PR HATE! they smelly n want to kick us out of are hood! we dont try to go n put puerto rican homes in buck town lolz! and yall do come n put white ppl condos! ARE U STOOPID? OR JUST WHITE?

[Triumphit1]

Gentrification, Anyways gangsters are shit, cause there hard but as soon as some real authority there all running away...

[ChicagoColdWarrior]

Its interesting that all these gangs/nations have been killing each other for years to preserve their territory & now they are letting soft ass whites take it over and are just whining about it. If any of them were smart they would be cool to the yuppies & hipsters & start selling their product to them. Mad weed & coke to be sold there, there would be enough for them to stay in the hoods & also enough to go around so they wouldnt have to be out buckin at each other over scraps.

[PulSamsara]

Build ! Build ! Build !

[Nacho773]

This is happening everywhere.

[fnes13]

We the people of Humboldt Park need to fight hard, just like we did back in the day with the race riots and gangs to claim our land. Humboldt is my hood, our hood, and we need to start becoming business owners, investors, politicians, and bring latino power and money, in order to stop these yuppies from destroying our community. We have built our own culture, style, businesses, form the ground up. All the yuppies gone do is put condos on everywhere and tear down everything we worked hard for.

[YoChicago1]

News flash for you - you're living in America, where everyone is free to live anywhere. Humboldt Park belongs to anyone who wants to live there.

How would you feel about a message that said "keep Latinos out of our community?" Hopefully you'd be sickened by it - just as I'm sickened by your disgusting discriminatory message.

[fnes13]

yuppies are latinos too. yuppies can be black, white, asians, anyone. yuppies are jus greedy people with money who want to take you out of your nieghborhood,and set up shop where u live. humboldt is a nighborhood that we built. i dont see yuppies trying to take ova china town. they have no respect for the thingz we built in our communities. where do u expect the people of humboldt to go if our community gets too expensive and develops a dry, lame, enviornment. humboldt is great cuz we made it .

[zacatetas]

@YoChicago1 stay the fuck out hipster bitch or we'll keep you out

[carm924]

I am Puerto Rican and I grew up there and I'm happy that it is starting to look nice. Yuppies are some of our own race. Latinos. Humboldt Park is growing, and it is not the only one. I think its an improvement and the neighborhood needs to grow along with it. I love Humboldt Park, and I love my race, and I have pride for it, but it isn't our community, it is everyones community not just for fellow Puerto Ricans.

[geeman215]

YO it's funny I left a comment in your video about Pilsen, I see you are on the ball. Good that u are addressing the problem of Humboldt Park as well. Although I'm not P- Rican I'm AA I grew-up in the area, I attended Wells H-Sch, Spent Summers hanging out at H-Park I attended many Functions there. I'm still in Wicker pk. the hood East of H-Park, and we experienced Gentrifacation just before H-P. As of today there is me and 1-other P-Rican fam. left on my Blk now "WE" get the outsider look.

[Triumphit1]

listen U people i grew up in humboldt park my community puerto Rican and Mexican... you have already threw out the Black people down western and now u raise taxes so high in the Humboldt park neighborhood so that Store owners, home owners and Families have to move north to Riss park with is around Fullerton and Laramie, or to the south like Back in the yard or 26th street which is full of two-Six Bunnies and gangs

[ChicagoColdWarrior]

Full of gangs? What about the ISCs & MLDs? I mean shit, Humboldt is the LK motherland...

[YoChicago1]

I understand how the conditions in Humboldt Park can breed anger and bitterness and resentment - and how utterly pointless that response is.

Anger can be a self-destructive force or a positive one. It destroyed many of the kids I grew up with. Some of us just accepted our miserable circumstances as a fact of life to be overcome and moved on. Consider moving -- or at least moving on.

[YoChicago1]

The nabe changed substantially -- today it would be called gentrifying -- when successful Cubans who'd fled Castro began moving in. It was a slum, so they didn't stay long, but they set some examples while they were there, and briefly made things better.

Today I live in a different world, and am acutely conscious of the vast gulf between that world and Humboldt Park, and deeply appreciate the privileges I enjoy, and try to give to my kids some sense of what it's like to live where I grew up.

[Oneleven1]

I know this may seem nothing more than pure vitriol - but I just want you to understand the utter contrast between the world you've lived in, and the world of the people you will be living among. I want you to know, and accept the fact of your enormous privilege and mobility. I want you to know that you are the engine driving the mill of gentrification - whether you want to be or recognize this to be so or not - and I am the grist. Enjoy my neighborhood...

[YoChicago1]

Well, your comments are clearly far more than vitriol and you've achieved a level of literacy that makes you grist for no one's mill.

Over 40 years ago I grew up in a neighborhood in Elizabeth, NJ very similar to this area, except that it was far poorer (by the numbers). It was mostly black and lower-class white before Puerto Ricans moved in. The cops would beat us up for sport; the Puerto Ricans would hold us up and knife us for sport if we didn't have any money to hand over.

[Oneleven1]

They will not roll down the street pointing shotguns out of the windows of their cruisers at you, just for the fun of it. They won't gesture at your kids with hand formed in the shape of a pistol, make "bang bang" noises, and then pretend to blow smoke from the tip of their index finger. They won't strip search your young sons in public for simply walking down the street. And they certainly won't run you down in a dark alley at night and murder you.

[Oneleven1]

Your children will not attend crumbling and disgraceful schools - their schools will have intact windows and properly operating heating systems during the winter months. The cops on your beat will not continously harrass you - they may actually invite you over to a local neighborhood watch meeting.

[Oneleven1]

Or worry that the rats in your walls will chew through the wiring causing a fire that may incinerate your whole building whilst you slumber. The stairwells of the buildings you live in will not have big gaps of missing stairs, and they will have functioning lighting, and will not smell of crack fumes.

[Oneleven1]

Enjoy your brisk runs through the park. Enjoy your rooftop barbecues on your brand new decks built on the gutted structures of old tenements. Rest assured that neither you or your children will have to step over O.D'ed junkies passed out in your stairway with blood streaming from their nostrils on the way to school in the morning. Or deal with a sinkwhole spewing an open sewer line in the middle of the sidewalk on your block for months.

[Oneleven1]

Every one of you walking down Division this summer felt like a coffin nail being driven in - another layer in the harmonics of the death knell rung for the HP of my childhood, and of the fanfare announcing the advent of your shiny new world.

[Oneleven1]

You see, those of us that were forced to live here staked a claim, and we paid that claim with years of blood, stress, and turmoil. For the children of the neglected and exploited to see the children of the wealthy and privileged walk our streets is an insult whose impact I'm sure escapes you. Whether or not you intend it to be so, or wish to look at it thusly, your very presence in our community is the engine of gentrification and displacement.

[Oneleven1]

These longterm residents claimed this space that they were forced into, and built a community that has been recognized internationally as a symbol of the Puerto Rican diaspora. I don't know if you will understand what those of us who are threatened with displacement are losing - indeed, have already irrevocably lost, as when I walk the streets of HP, I am surrounded by the ghosts of the past.

[Oneleven1]

To any newcomers to Humboldt Park - I do hope you understand the bitterness and resentment that will be felt towards you by many longterm residents who were forced by poverty and racism to live for decades in a ramshackle ghetto, with dangerous and substandard housing, municipal neglect, overwhelming poverty, endemic police abuse and brutality, and the scourges of crack and heroin, arson and automatic weapons

[Oneleven1]

Damn - I used to live at 2431 for years back when I was a kid, or at least in the two flat that occupied the lot before my mother and I were booted out...

[grapes5]

lots of memoris

[cacapp]

die u stupid ass white ppl

when i see u makin a video ima

knock yo ass out fucking BITCH

[chicagostaci]

it's not about white or black, but where the money is. There are plenty of lower-middle class WHITE renters who live in Humboldt Park that have huge disdain for these fuckers trying to take the neighborhood away. Educate yourself before you spew ignorance.

[coopimage]

construction noise is not always a good sign, who is moved by your "units"?