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Post by laurenfrances on May 29, 2024 13:29:20 GMT -5
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Post by Max on May 29, 2024 14:45:12 GMT -5
I couldn't live there for more than a couple of weeks at a time, but I would enjoy the seclusion and quietness of spending that time in the countryside. I've lived all 3...urban, suburban & rural. Like just about everything else in life, there's upside & downside to each. True. |
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Post by Max on May 29, 2024 14:54:17 GMT -5
Check out Williamsburg/Dumbo (on the East River between the Brooklyn and Manhattan bridges) great gentrified Brooklyn neighborhoods. Checkout youtube channels to get a feel for those neighborhoods.
Gentrification has it's ups and downs. While gentrification made some bad neighborhoods, good neighborhoods, there were some good Italian American neighborhoods that no longer exist. I don't like to visit old the Italian American neighborhood I grew up in. Too many ghosts, too many changes. I thought I would live in the neighborhood I grew up in my whole life. But because of gentrification I couldn't wait to leave. Even though some family and friends still live there, we moved ASAP.
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Post by laurenfrances on May 29, 2024 15:06:10 GMT -5
Check out Williamsburg/Dumbo (on the East River between the Brooklyn and Manhattan bridges) great gentrified Brooklyn neighborhoods. Checkout youtube channels to get a feel for those neighborhoods.
Gentrification has it's ups and downs. While gentrification made some bad neighborhoods, good neighborhoods, there were some good Italian American neighborhoods that no longer exist. I don't like to visit old the Italian American neighborhood I grew up in. Too many ghosts, too many changes. I thought I would live in the neighborhood I grew up in my whole life. But because of gentrification I couldn't wait to leave. Even though some family and friends still live there, we moved ASAP.
Gentrification priced out many long time families. Sadly many family own shops are gone replaced with hipster venues. Those neighborhood "candy shops", ice cream parlors and family own delis are no longer in existent. To be replaced with Starbucks and chain eateries. |
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Post by azbob643 on May 29, 2024 15:07:46 GMT -5
Check out Williamsburg/Dumbo (on the East River between the Brooklyn and Manhattan bridges) great gentrified Brooklyn neighborhoods. Checkout youtube channels to get a feel for those neighborhoods.
Gentrification has it's ups and downs. While gentrification made some bad neighborhoods, good neighborhoods, there were some good Italian American neighborhoods that no longer exist. I don't like to visit old the Italian American neighborhood I grew up in. Too many ghosts, too many changes. I thought I would live in the neighborhood I grew up in my whole life. But because of gentrification I couldn't wait to leave. Even though some family and friends still live there, we moved ASAP.
Neighborhoods always eventually change...for "better"...then "worse"...then "better"..."worse"... on and on. North Denver at one time was a predominantly Italian neighborhood. Eventually it became predominantly Mexican. It's undergone gentrification and now known as "The Highlands". I bought a small house (800 sq. ft.) in that neighborhood that was rezoned for office use, which is what I used it for. Paid $40K for it. Rezoned residential...since sold for $430K. |
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Post by Max on May 29, 2024 15:12:39 GMT -5
Gentrification has it's ups and downs. While gentrification made some bad neighborhoods, good neighborhoods, there were some good Italian American neighborhoods that no longer exist. I don't like to visit old the Italian American neighborhood I grew up in. Too many ghosts, too many changes. I thought I would live in the neighborhood I grew up in my whole life. But because of gentrification I couldn't wait to leave. Even though some family and friends still live there, we moved ASAP.
Gentrification priced out many long time families. Sadly many family own shops are gone replaced with hipster venues. Those neighborhood "candy shops", ice cream parlors and family own delis are no longer in existent. Yep, I wasn't priced out, but the culture (stores, shops, delis, etc.) that I grew up around started to disappear. Some friends and family also moved away for the same reasons. Growing up in such a tight neighborhood, if I didn't know someone by name I knew them as we used to say "by face." Now if I'm in that area I feel like a stranger. |
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Post by laurenfrances on May 29, 2024 15:31:57 GMT -5
Gentrification priced out many long time families. Sadly many family own shops are gone replaced with hipster venues. Those neighborhood "candy shops", ice cream parlors and family own delis are no longer in existent. Yep, I wasn't priced out, but the culture (stores, shops, delis, etc.) that I grew up around started to disappear. Some friends and family also moved away for the same reasons. Growing up in such a tight neighborhood, if I didn't know someone by name I knew them as we used to say "by face." Now if I'm in that area I feel like a stranger. Yeah, our mom would send us to the local butcher shop. If we can home with a fatty piece of meat, the butcher would get an ear full. The kids in the neighborhood played at the local park making sure to be home in time for dinner in the summer months. In past times, baseball game was played/broadcast in the afternoons. We listen on the radio to those Yankees out of town evening games. My brother would head to the candy store during the summer evenings for the night owl addition of the newspapers to check out baseball scores/news. Those days are long gone. And by the way, my brother is a converted Mets fan |
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Post by kaybli on May 29, 2024 15:35:04 GMT -5
me in the old neighborhood according to rizzuto
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Post by chiyankee on May 29, 2024 15:58:49 GMT -5
This would have been great back when it was just my wife and I. Before we had kids. |
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Post by azbob643 on May 29, 2024 16:11:46 GMT -5
My brother would head to the candy store during the summer evenings for the night owl addition of the newspapers to check out baseball scores/news. Again...most who didn't grow up in Metro NYC don't know what a "candy store" is. |
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Post by Max on May 29, 2024 16:36:11 GMT -5
Yep, I wasn't priced out, but the culture (stores, shops, delis, etc.) that I grew up around started to disappear. Some friends and family also moved away for the same reasons. Growing up in such a tight neighborhood, if I didn't know someone by name I knew them as we used to say "by face." Now if I'm in that area I feel like a stranger. Yeah, our mom would send us to the local butcher shop. If we can home with a fatty piece of meat, the butcher would get an ear full. The kids in the neighborhood played at the local park making sure to be home in time for dinner in the summer months. In past times, baseball game was played/broadcast in the afternoons. We listen on the radio to those Yankees out of town evening games. My brother would head to the candy store during the summer evenings for the night owl addition of the newspapers to check out baseball scores/news. Those days are long gone. And by the way, my brother is a converted Mets fan I can't remember a night when my dad didn't buy the NY Daily News night owl edition. Even though we were in a good neighborhood, my parents and all of my friends parents had the same rule. When the street lights came on, we had to be "on the block" that we lived on. No, ifs ands or buts. |
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Post by Max on May 29, 2024 16:51:06 GMT -5
me in the old neighborhood according to rizzuto
lol! I still get a laugh when Don Fanucci is walking around as if he's The Pope then steps in dog crap and tries to wipe it off on his stoop. |
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Post by Max on May 29, 2024 16:52:14 GMT -5
Again...most who didn't grow up in Metro NYC don't know what a "candy store" is. Or what an "egg cream" is. |
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Post by azbob643 on May 29, 2024 16:56:35 GMT -5
This would have been great back when it was just my wife and I. Before we had kids.  |
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Post by azbob643 on May 29, 2024 16:58:03 GMT -5
Again...most who didn't grow up in Metro NYC don't know what a "candy store" is. Or what an "egg cream" is. No eggs...no cream...what's the deal? |
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