(5/5)- Toxic: Brooklyn

FOR PART 6 VISIT:
http://www.vbs.tv/player.php?bccl=NzQxODkxOTgxX19ORVdT=

We decided to make a documentary about Williamsburg because our office is here and many of us have been lurking these parts for upwards of a decade. What had once been a bargain neighborhood close to Manhattan, albeit with some dangerous amenities, has now flourished into quite the sophisticated outpost. The first wave of kids that came along put up curtains and dusted off the rubble, but soon the ambience chasers had migrated in en masse and totally remade the place. This sprucing made us happy. It also made property owners happy. People who were sitting on abandoned warehouses and old factories reaching all the way into Greenpoint realized their shit had turned to gold. But what we here at Vice didn't realize was that under all of this snazzy development was a subterranean environment heavily damaged by decades of industrial activity. And it wasn't just us--an ever younger and expanding population was tripping on in blissfully unaware of the residual toxicity harbored in a place increasingly known for art galleries, great bars, and restaurants.

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[enderwigginsx]

thank you for posting these videos, this information needs to be known. this needs to change.

[oscargurses]

williamsburgers are funny, they hate other rich privileged kids just like them (who try to act and look poor) because their mommied and daddies send them more money than they get from their mommies and daddies, while they ALL pertend to be artists and hate "the upper class", they dont want richer people moving in because the rents will be raised, um... last i checked you guys arent exactly natives there either. your "artist" community drove out lower income familes who were there before

[BreakTheSilence]

The Bronx is probably worse, but nobody gives a fuck

[boredanddumb]

in brooklyn's sewage lol

[sferb]

lol

[robot4001]

Where's part three?

[loll69]

It could be worse...

[slobomotion]

I lived around here for 17 years. My health deteriorated and I couldn't afford healthcare, so I had to leave the country.

[g0dbel0w]

Jesus Christ people, pack the fuck up and GET OUT. Go anywhere. That place is horrendous.