Mrs. Loretta McDonald Takes Us Through Brooklyn for a Look at Gentrification's Effects | BK Stories
Вставка
- Опубліковано 9 бер 2017
- "The neighborhood is absolutely not like it used to be."
Imagine, store owners and businesses you've known for decade slowly begin to pack up shop and gentrification rolls over your neighborhood.
--
This video is from BRIC TV- the first 24/7 television channel created by, for, and about Brooklyn. It is the borough's source for local news, Brooklyn culture, civic affairs, music, arts, sports, and technology. BRIC TV features programming produced and curated by BRIC, an arts and media nonprofit located in Downtown Brooklyn, NYC.
Watch more Brooklyn-centric content from BRIC TV:
BK Live: BRIC.me/u/youtube/bklive
Straight Up: BRIC.me/u/youtube/straightup
BHeard: BRIC.me/u/youtube/bheard
B-Side: BRIC.me/u/youtube/bside
Check out more from BRIC:
/ bricartsmedia
Connect with us:
/ brictv
/ brictv
/ brictv
BRICartsmedia.org/BRICTV
#BKStories
#documentary
#BKStories
#documentary
#BKStories
#documentary
Her fashion game is crazy. The teal coat with the orange scarf!
On god, she’s drippin!!!!
U know she was fly in her prime
She’s sittingggg 👑👑👑
she has style it's better than fashion
And she keeps comparing about money. Seems like she has her priorities wrong.
The first time I was in NY in 2006 I was in awe of it. Now, maybe its also because I'm a bit older and harder to impress, but I went back this week (Feb 2019) and it saddened me a bit. Trendy coffee shops and craft beer bars all over Brooklyn and Manhattan. It didn't really feel special anymore, just like everywhere else. It's still a great city, but its hard to get away from the feeling that gentrification has taken some of the soul out of NY.
2006 lol....yes I understand it changes every year and all. Did u ever go in the 80s n 90s to compare and contrast. 2006 was way past the aftermath and it will only get worse.
@@irobu I didn't even like it in the 90s and part of the 80s. I still like NYC but I'm more into going to places like Jackson Heights, Queens, that still has some immigrant vibe to them. Transformation of NYC is ongoing and I think gentrification took a turn as far back as the 1980s. But people older than me may say it started in the 1970s or 1960s.
@@benjaminsmith2287 yeah i hear the same. Well rent went up like crazy starting like in the 80s....in Manhattan that is with all the condo convertions. Not sure exactly when the gentrification started in Brooklyn.
@@benjaminsmith2287 it just been on over drive since 2000’s
It was already halfway gentrified in 2006.
My mother is 67, and although we have our own washing machine she still goes to the laundromat - old ladies just love laundromats.
What the fuck does that even mean?
@@agexax13 what else is it supposed to mean??? Can you comprehend english??
@@SuperDeuser I have a college degree so I'd like to think I do. This corny distracts from what the video entails. If you can't comprehend that then you're the moron. Stupid man
@@agexax13 Well according to you, you can't even comprehend a simple sentence
I'd like my name to be Adrian Andre, cause it is... maybe he’s degree wasn’t carried in English.
I worry about the racism they’ll face from new residents
They do face racism.
Wow, worried about white privilege
I’m excited for the fact they are being pushed out and better people are moving in
Too late for that...trust me😤😤😤
Bless the grandma for speaking out. *Hugs*
The thing that pisses off most of the people that are native to cities experiencing gentrification is that the wealthier people that move into the expensive housing say that its affordable when it clearly isn’t. A neighborhood that averaged $1,500 a month for a one bdrm apt and now goes for $2,950 isn’t affordable for the average person that makes $60k a year. These developers are purposely catering and enticing people that earn $200k - $300k and above.
Michael Knight Exactly that bullshit is displacing th he middle class as well. Its sickening
The people paying $2950 are fleeing neighborhoods where it costs $3,450.
So if you buy a house when it was cheap. You will be a rich. People in some of this areas just wait for the government to give them everything they don't want to work that is the problem for example an FHA loan for low income individuals like me let you put down 3.5% for down payments if you plan to sell your house but there are so many programs where you don't have to put any money down if a person that are on this neighborhoods have not houses is their fall the opportunities are there if you don't take them the only responsible for that is yourself for a $300000 house in brooklyn your down payment would be $0 or the worse case $9000 so you can not save this money in 20 years what about if instead for buying weed and beer you save that money you will save that money in less than 5 years. If you can not do this move to another place that is cheaper than this. Florida, PA etc.
@@andressabio9440 One glaring issue with this statement is the source of incomes of some of these people. Some may not be able to afford in time the ability to move out and be stable living once they buy such home. It's great that you were able to o it. But assuming an elderly woman who doesn't smoke weed or drink beer should buy a home in a major city on New York to prevent being unaffected by gentrification seems a bit extreme in sorts. Not saying it's impossible, just seems your argument is a bit aggressive
@@clemdane that's not true. The demographics change shows they're coming from outside the cities. From affluent suburbs. Yes, people from rich neighborhoods within cities are moving into up and coming ones but it's not exactly the primary swarm
I'm German and lived in that area until half a year ago. And while it was catered towards my needs perfectly, I feel bad for the lady and the change that robs her of the environment she's used to. Sometimes i wish progress and change would just take a break and the world would come to peace with all the good things we already have. Can't we leave anything untouched or unaltered ?
your not allowed to say this if you are accepting the change and basking in its benefits. Scratch that; you are allowed to say whatever comes to your mind, but it loses all strength if you are partaking in such events.. do you even believe what you're saying ? If so why did you decide to come to Brooklyn ?
Stimme Dir da vollkommen zu. An Veränderung an sich ist nichts auszusetzen. Es wird jedoch zum Problem, wenn einzelne Gruppen dadurch gezwungenermaßen aus ihrer ursprünglichen Lage verdrängt werden und Ihnen keiner zu Hilfe kommt.
@Darius Kang do you just repeat everything you read? i thought alt-righters were against cucks?
@Darius Kang We wuz kangz
who says that gentrification is "progress". That's a very narrow view
Pharmacy for people turned into a dog pharmacy smh
Thank you.. our community in Connecticut is going through this.. sad to see such good people forced out..
same with the dmv
I agree with you Mrs Loretta Johnson🇵🇷🇵🇷🇵🇷🇵🇷🇵🇷🇵🇷🇵🇷
Sad. Where did all the real New Yorkers go? It’s all rich white kids now.
There's always one lol
racist
yea. it sucks.
@@TraversyMedia he's right tho.
@James Pietsch you literally assumed Coney Island is dangerous and has a lot of crime cause Russians blacks and Hispanics live there so I think you’re the one that is racist.
THAT area of Brooklyn has been gentrified forever...
What if there would be another drug epidemic where caps get busted and crime rises high as hell. It could turn their playground into their worst nightmare.
government should make the builders provide some free or way below cost housing so that people living their don't have to move out. This is legal racial profiling by allowing the rich to take over town and pushing the poor to the suburbs.
How about those lazy poor people get jobs. McDonald’s is hiring at over $16 an hour where I’m at. If you work full time, that’s more than enough to pay for rent, food and add money to savings. Why should the government continue to cater to lazy people when their cities keep getting worse.
I wonder what NYC will look 20 years from now?
Eric Johnson good question
Eric Johnson think Montana
Gone where though?🙄
Like Barcelona I hope.
An abstract tourist attraction...w/ no flavor & no sauce...what would b the point in goin
I love ME some Mrs Loretta!! She reminds me of my grandma Gracie✊
All these comments from privileged heartless people . "Actually like dear like not really you needed to invest your money and have gone to another area already " Shut up fake new yorkers, you don't know the meaning of community.
Victor Nolasco The truth hurts. I feel for people who are getting priced out, but this could have been avoided if the neighborhoods were safer for people to come and spend money there. Instead of seeing a some non-resident walking in your neighborhood and thinking "what the fuck is this outsider doing in MY neighborhood", you should have been thinking "maybe he'll spend some money here to help our community's economy". When people from your neighborhood get enough money, they don't stay and invest in the neighborhood, they move out to a safer area. Nothing changes.
Маго You are saying that you feel for the same people that you are saying should be grateful lol. This is what the problem is, "They should be thankful to me because I am helping make their community more valuable." The reason it is not safe is because you feel it is not safe, because it is not similar yo your neighborhood. Safety and the economy don't necessarily correlate. When you begin a discussion of this issue you need to get out of this frame of mind of I am helping, saving, providing for this community by being there.
Victor Nolasco I didn't say they should be "grateful", I said that making your neighborhood a place where people fear to tread because of high crime rates tends to hurt, not help, the economic situation in said neighborhood. Tourism, consumerism, all that shit, helps bring money into the area, does it not? All of this gentrification stuff could have been avoided if the people in the community owned and invested in property in those neighborhoods. Protesting against these Midwesterner whitey hipsters that move in isn't gonna do jackshit to change the minds of the landlords and developers, they're gonna do whatever makes them more money - that's the nature of business. Unfortunately for you, the landlords are the ones who own the property, and they can do whatever they want with it. If you don't own the property, then the fact is that you don't have any say in what happens to it. You can complain about it until the cows come home, it won't make even a little difference.
Маго Paraphrasing and alluding to the "grateful" attitude is what often those who argue against gentrification or displacement are about. Like the Summerhill owner in Bedstuy and many of those you share your point of view. The difference for me is that I am an owner and a native of NYC and unfortunately I am able to see how people in this city struggle. Now, if I knew it was as easy as "stop that crime, work and save to buy a house" I may be with you. But when you see upclose the bias inequities behind closes doors to provide assistance and support to certain communities, when you learn of how politicians like Moses tore into certain neighborhoods, and when you see how there is more red tape to be involved on a community board in certain neighborhoods if you look a certain way - come from a certain background - when you work at schools and see how children have to leave the state because they cannot afford to live in their neighborhood of 2 dollar coffee to now 10 dollar coffee with artisanals and shit, then maybe you'll open your eyes to the soul of New York that is being lost. Right, Ownership is indeed one way to fight against gentrification. Right, no one wants to live in an unsafe neighborhood. However there is a reason to fight against displacement because it is real. I don't care if they are midwest new jersey or another country, communities are being disrespected and robbed of their culture and value. When you live growing up around diversity in this city, around this city, you understand that
Victor Nolasco Ok well what's the solution then? The landlords aren't doing anything illegal, they're doing what they feel they need to do to get more out of their investment - that's pretty typical (not to mention financially-sound) behavior for people in real estate. You're right, it is heartless, but there's no law that says a landlord has to show loyalty to a tenant.
This was basically a tour of former laundromats.
😂 I forgot about this comment.. aww I crack myself up.
please don't take this ladies laundromat
Asshole
"where did all those yesterdays go...."
She loves Laundromats.
I feel like Coney Island is the only true lasting Brooklyn neighborhood. Ain’t nobody moving out here except Russians Hispanics and African Americans, we still got murals from the 90s, only 1 building being renovated. No gentrification here , hope it stays that way
Shit I gotta move there then. What them prices like?
Hmmmm can you tell me the estate price there??? Im intrested...
Noah Rodriguez east ny or Brownsville not gentrified either
@@zaybx3485 ummm..yes it is
I hope that black lady managed to hold out until now 2021 because now after the covid storm these new landlords can’t even give these apartments away the demand has fallen off.
Im from Montréal and we have the same problem here.
Nobody cares about Montreal y’all aren’t special and don’t compare to USA
Kermit Robbery
Yeah well except for the fact that Montreal is one of the only cultured places in North America.
This is so depressing
Exactly what happened to Southie 🥺
That is near my old Crown Heights neighborhood. But can you tell property owners to refuse to see at higher prices because current residents won't be able to afford to live there.? They tried that in Albany and landlords just abandoned property and there was nothing that could be done as long as the property taxes were paid.
they taking all the things we leaned on to get yall out of there
This is so sad
I understand how she feels.My neighborhood is gone too.I lived in a small, quiet town. The state decided to build tons of subsidized housing, strip malls, fast food restaurants etc... All the small local owned shops and businesses are gone.It would take 5 min. out of your day to get a gallon of milk is now 45 min. At one point in time I moved into an apartment complex that I paid $1500 mo.(a long time ago,im sure its doubled by now) to find out 90% of the other residents lived there for 0 dollars( taxpayers paid their rent)Yes I understand how you feel.I lost my neighborhood too.
the state don't build srtip malls and fastfood restaurants
It’s not fair for tax payers to pay rent for others.
@@DEATHCHICKEN1337 tax payers are paying for the this gentrification and the new civil infrastructure/development that old residents will never be able to use. Tax payers are paying for government grants to “those who can afford” to pay for gentrified houses in some towns and cities which help gentrifiers restore their homes (and build their wealth). Government money goes to all.....but the form of welfare that is given to “gentrifiers” is truly for their welfare. It helps them build generational wealth.....and you know this. But like most gentrifiers, deception keeps you sane and keeps many of people who grew up with a sole mission of pleasing whites, spinning their tales.
Good. Subsidized housing is awesome.
@@linusmlgtips2123 Not if it is over-sized, poorly maintained and mismanaged.
It’s very sad 😢 what’s happening to NYC. Very sad
it's sad now they are coming after the people living from paycheck to paycheck. increasing rent and
increasing the lease renewal prices for local shops so they can't afford to stay at the spot. in comes in a fance hister shop for the rich to replace it£££. same thing is happening in london shoreditch area and bricklane. in the east end of london
SAD
Sad to hear this. Gentrification is a shitty thing.
The reason why there are no, or very little, laundry mats is because they went out of business, as just about every household, apartment building, etc. having washing and drying machines. There's no evil scheme here. You can't have a business operating just to satisfy nostalgic emotions.
You sound so slow, gentrifiers (aka your people) don’t want to use it sooooooooooooo what happens it goes out of business
Also what do you mean every building has washer dryer units?? You mean the NEW buildings… no older affordable apartments have the hookups for that
If only we can come together and buy our neighbors back! NYCHA is getting bought by private companies and you know they’re going to just start pushing us out. Just a matter of time
It’s not “pushing” you out when your people willfully sell their stores and property away for cheap. If your people worked hard and didn’t have such a horrible culture then you wouldn’t have to worry about gentrification
They're turning the Keyfood into condos
This is sooo wrong. It started on the Lower East Side. then Williamsburg. Downtown BK Bed stuy after that and now it's Crown Heights. These tall Manhattan buildings are killing the sky line in. Mom and pop shops get a huge rent increase , and the mayor does nothing!!!.. When the neighborhood gets new trees , better. Lighting. I mean Yankee Stadium lights and other major improvements. That's when you know it's over for the people who grew up there. The New NY and it sucks!!! No nightlife. All good dive bars are gone. It's just over over. Natives should come first!
I Meant to say Mrs Loretta McDonald
They taking them because they about to push y’all out and since nobody is fighting in city hall till it’s to late, we’ll it’s to late
Blame higher rents and gentrification on local governments constricting the building of new homes with zoning laws not people moving in.
Very self-centered, what a world system
This is more about Amazon than gentrification.
Wow this is worse than Miami
The effects are emotional and real, but the mechanism that makes this happen is pure market economics. Money doesn't have feelings. Money simply goes along with the highest bidder. When there is a free market in an area with geographic limits, and something causes demand to go up, buyers (Person A) with the most money will buy up the most valuable real estate. Buyers with a bit less than that (Person B) will buy the next most desired neighborhood. When prices in the first two places have gone past what Person C can afford anymore, Person C will move to the next neighborhood down the chain of perceived value. That neighborhood will sell out and prices will rise again, pushing more people (D) to move to the next affordable area. This is neither compassionate nor evil. It is dispassionate. It is cold hard numbers. And it will have a knock on effect so that as the tide of money rolls through, one neighborhood after another gentrifying and becoming unaffordable to the majority of people until either there is nowhere left for lower income people to be or demand finally ebbs due to external events.
No one group of people is setting out to displace people in any given neighborhood. Every group is simply looking for the best housing they can afford and as they are priced out of their last neighborhood they will, without intending to, price other people out of new neighborhoods.
It's hard to see what can be done about this legally. Market force economics tend to have free rein under the law.
Pale people have dead engery that's the real reason she didn't go inside the cafe. Smart Grannie.
😕
Us white people have high engery and are cool
@James Pietsch funny that you call out racism when it’s convenient for you but you say Coney Island assumingely has crime cause blacks and Hispanics live there
Says the guy from a whole race of people who are too lazy to work over 40 hours a week and blame whiteyfor their problems. Focus on yourself instead of blaming others and maybe you’ll start to understand hard work ethic. You Probably won’t though. You’ll stay a perpetual victim forever
"The neighborhood is not what it used to be". That's true, its better now so run along and don't come back you here.
Hopefully nobody getting shot out there, true story I went to a laundromat outta town and some asshole decided to pour kerosene on my 2 year old it was horrific thank goodness my child survived it needless to say I’m neighing to that laundromat ever again
This woman doesn't care about money or people. She only cares about laundromats.
This woman is UPSET about these laundromats lol
best way to move those who are not wanted by their gov't out of existence, they're doing the same to the drug heads in canada, instead of fixing the problem and help these people get into the community and get a life they just move them. I thought black people were lazy? So why is white gov't spending money on bullshit instead of doing work to fix these problems of disadvantages and create more opportunities. The money bush spent on getting into afghanistan could've change the country, america's been in debt since who the fuck knows, but they always find money for these corrupt and damaging companies and wars but can't help feed those who lack the resources to get somewhere in life? Are you gonna shower these homeless people and give them razors to shave or suits to where to interviews? Then how can the homless get help?
Amerikka
Barrington Morris missing a k
Profit over people. Sad .
They're thinking about money. This woman should be thinking about money, too.
It's good to see that not everybody is thinking only about money
You have been left behind dear. Seek ownership and moving up. No way in hell would I be in one area for 30 years and never think of moving. I get the loss of the amenities to build condos, but its amazing how one can live in an area for so long.
most people do tho if they have social mobility
She's an old woman for fuck's sake...
What the fuck does what you would or wouldn't do have to do with this person? Theres people that love their community and their lives the way it was. And these people shoudn't be pushed out their neighborhoods so rich cooperate types can live out their sex and the city dreams. FUCK gentrification, thats just a code word for replacement.
Tell that to the heroin addicts in Ohio who refuse to move to get rid of their depression, or for better employment and a drug free life.
Hey different strokes...
Nothing says a thriving neighborhood like candy stores and laundry mats.
Nothing says colonizer like your comment.
@@rockydee2967nothing says low income lazy person like your comment.
Tell this to Big Baby Miller who thinks he lives in a third world country!
Who's the "The money THEY bring in?" Whose "they"? People decide where they live for themselves in America.
you need to get out into the real world more, most people don't decide where they live.
@@100timessquaresays who? Get a job and save yourself some money. Make a resume, if you’re a grown man you should have multiple jobs and skills listed. Send the resume to jobs where you’d rather live before you quit/move. It’s as simple as that.
@@100timessquaremaybe use your brain a little
Wealth is bad and poverty is good?
You're not listening to what she's saying. They're bringing people from outside these cities and pushing the original people out because of the higher cost of living. That's good to you? If they did the same, came into the more higher end areas and pushed people out and made it uninhabitable would you be saying the same? Not everyone is making 100 or fucking 200 thousand a year, dude. The national average is like 50k.
Izaya Orihara-kun
Thank you for schooling that colonizer, keep those hipsters and gentrifiers the fuck outta nyc
Kermit Robbery take an economics class kid
Look at Ohio. There was so much money out there and then the jobs disappeared. Should those heroin addicts move to a better city or sit there and rot without a job? Better yet, someone should gentrify those neighborhoods. They need a mean clean up
@@nameinvain6 they bring in people because the people living there don’t contribute to the economy. The only people who don’t like gentrification are the ones too lazy to get a real full time job instead of relying on the government for money. Become self reliant and gentrification will stop happening. But why would you do that? Getting handouts from the government is so much easier
I feel bad for that lady she is so sweet. But everything in life has goods and bads. I think the benefits are more than the bads less drugs on the street less crimes streets are more clean also. I think that being poor or own a house is not depend on the skin color more is about how hard and how smart you work. I am an immigrant latino i wasn't born in this country. And i was able to buy a house in brooklyn New York . how are you going to explain me that a person with legal documents, that speak the language, are not able to buy a house like me if they have more opportunities i wasn't born on this country but i love this country i am not rich but i clean my entire block i clean corner to corner i love this country and i take care of my neighborhood sadly i am the only one doing it. People who live here with more opportunities the only think they do is to drink beer smoke weed and through the garbage on the floor. I think the real problem are the projects and the food stamps. People who don't qualify for that have not other option than work to survive when the conditions are hard you become harder as well and improve your self and your community. Project and public housing is just a paradise for drug dealers a majority of people from public housing don't care about the community. they see me cleaning and even though my skin color is brown they think i am white just because i am cleaning the street. they even said that i am crazy????
I’m so happy to see them leave. Gentrification makes me so happy
Who's "we" "they" "neighborhood people"? She's sure who's she's talking about, but she can't say who they are.
I'll say it... The Colonizers.
@@sharidenis3890 I'll say it....Economically productive ambitious people.
Gentrification is no more "economically ambitious" than the Colonizers were to the indigenous people of this land. You call it ambition I call it a hostile takeover.
@@sharidenis3890 There are no "indigenous people" in Brooklyn. Brooklyn is a creation of European expansion and capitalism. It wouldn't exist without them. You're just indulging in childish fantasies.
@@3506Dodge you try to sound intelligent but your lacking in reading comprehension. I'm comparing your "economic productivity" speaking to the white Colonization of the indigenous in America.
If you want to be historically accurate, what you call capitalism in the "creation" of Brooklyn is actual the Brutal slave trade and domination of the same group of people who todays gentrifiers are trying to displace.
Whoppi?
I love gentrification, it pushes out the dangerous POC and makes room for wealthy white people to make the neighborhood safe
There's better ways to get attention. Try going outside and hanging out with your friends.
@@Lulu_Lime I’m guna gentrify black neighborhoods for fun
Killing yourself would get you a lot more attention than being a corn ball in these comment sections
@@joshrod9008 go cry. I’m going to gentrify your neighborhood.
@@Lulu_Limetry getting a job and not relying on welfare.
Sorry, but in a free country you don't have a right to keep people from doing a legal economic activity.
Your whining is irrelevant.
a free country that was built by the same activity which displaces natives and continues to exploit and oppress them. okay
sorry to say this, the people made it a shithole, not just blacks but everyone.
Sorry but this is a conversation between intelligent people who realize that not everything is life is about "economic activity" but about human beings. Your narrow minded one sided opinion is irrelevant.
Well in this free country, go to Ohio and tell the heroin addicts to move so they can have a better life.
This woman is at least stating her claim.
In Ohio, they’re using needles to express their thoughts on the neighborhood
Free for whom? Certainly not people like her.
“How do they get their money” lady they actually put in the time and effort to work for their money. She keeps saying “they took this”, no they didn’t. Your people sold their stores to these big companies instead of keeping it for the long run. How about fix your culture instead of complaining about people trying to improve it for you.
Not everyone who is rich have worked hard for their money, the Kardashians, Paris Hilton etc. were born into wealth, some people have worked every day of their lives but can't afford a mansion like the Kardashians can. Your comment is really narrow minded and ignorant, also when you keep saying 'you people' is it because the woman in the video is black? People with lower income need to live somewhere too, just remember if there was no poor people in the world, the rich would have to wipe their own asses instead.