Gentrification in the Lower East Side

Made by Ashley Turzio, Dominique Coles, Joyce Guo and Eric Dong. Smith Productions Summer 2007, City Parks Foundation. Winner Best Documentary, RECYouth Multimedia Festival 2007
www.smithteenproductions.com
www.cityparksfoundation.org

Category:

Film & Animation

Tags:

• youth
• media
• teens
• nyc
• gentrification

[thatcalikid1]

I seen this girl around she is so beautiful.

[MPCHustle]

@AlizeCiz are you kidding me, those damn Bodegas do nothing for the community they serve, nothing but a bunch of self serving fucks as well, been going to them and they have nothing of nutrition for us..they also commit welfare fraud dude. They are just as bad as teh drug dealers only they have the rest of the ghetto rats to serve them. How many of thenm serve liquor when they aren't supposed to do so? Yeah the White and the Chinese stores have expensive shit, but damn, it's healthier

[AlizeCiz]

@MPCHustle not true, most dominicans got here in the 90's & since they many are still coming. most dominicans are straight from dr or first generation.kids.

[AlizeCiz]

@MPCHustle thats a damn lie though, plenty of africans out here doing credit card scams, as for Jamaicans when i was growing up west indians were the butt of all jokes, you only got to drive through some parts of BK to see that Jamaicans are acting much worse than the Dominicans you shittin on. Businesses? Why you think they call corner stores ''bodegas'' on the eastcoast? Not all hispanics are bums.

[MPCHustle]

@IzzyIsou totally agree dude, it's crazy how even AFRICANS get ahead while black people are not even getting close to ahead, even Jamaicans get a business going

[IzzyIsou]

@MPCHustle I think it's a by product of just being lazy. There are other immigrant cultures here that work their asses off to get ahead, for their families. The PRs and Dominicans don't seem to do that, they seem to have acquired the project-dwelling, welfare recipient mindset, along with the violence, criminality and lack of respect for others and themselves. I'm Hispanic and I hate when people make excuses for themselves. It's total bullshit.

[MPCHustle]

who gets attached to their suburban neighborhood?

[MPCHustle]

I don't get attached to any neighborhood, especially when that neighborhood is infested with; drugs and violence...what the fuck?

[MPCHustle]

@IzzyIsou it's that when ricans were in PR they didn't have shit, then FDR gave them welfare and they came out here and the US helped them out, but they decided to stay on welfare, drinking and smoking. it amazes me that their kids didn't see being on Welfare was the worst situation you could ever be in with Social Workers intruding on your home without notice...I mean damn, wouldn't you want to stop that cycle?

[MPCHustle]

@AlizeCiz yeah, Dominicans got here in the 60s or so and in, what forty years their kids should've been in college in the last 20 years or so?