New construction in Humboldt Park

Join Andy Anderson for a walk down the 2400 block of W Walton Street, where there's a surprising amount of new construction recently completed and underway.

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• YoChicago

[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.

[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.

[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.

[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.

[zacatetas]

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

[pheonixltt]

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

[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...

[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]

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

[PulSamsara]

Build !  Build ! Build !

[Nacho773]

This is happening everywhere.