Spike Lee is a low-balling motherfucker

[bassie]

Jonny_Paycheck said:http://vanishingnewyork.blogspot.com/2014/03/on-spike-lee-hyper-gentrification.html





essential piece for anyone remotely interested in this subject.










Thanks for this. I've moved out of two (Toronto) neighbourhoods due to drastic changes in the cultural and economic landscape.


The "but but but we've made the place better, cleaner, more interesting" argument is very prevalent around these parts, too.

 

[batmon]

james said:I'm not trying to make any point with this or imply that it's any kind of metric--just a by-the-by thing that this thread has made me semi-curious about: How many black NYC residents are currently active on soulstrut? Two? Three?




Counting the two nappy dogs in Harlem?

 

[DB_Cooper]

I'm 1/8th Black Irish. I don't live in the city anymore though. Gentrification-related.

 

[Brian]

I don't know how long i'm going to be living in the city


75% moving from harlem after lease is up

 

[batmon]

lol

 

[batmon]

PatrickCrazy said:I don't know how long i'm going to be living in the city


75% moving from harlem after lease is up




Why?

 

[vintageinfants]

PatrickCrazy said:I don't know how long i'm going to be living in the city


75% moving from harlem after lease is up




it's just not the same as it used to be, huh? the good ol days

 

[batmon]

vintageinfants saidatrickCrazy said:I don't know how long i'm going to be living in the city


75% moving from harlem after lease is up




it's just not the same as it used to be, huh? the good ol days




He droppin in about a decade too late.

 

[Brian]

batmon saidatrickCrazy said:I don't know how long i'm going to be living in the city


75% moving from harlem after lease is up




Why?office move end of the year


would prefer to get more sleep than wake up at 5


city move is longer term planning sitch

 

[Brian]

batmon said:vintageinfants saidatrickCrazy said:I don't know how long i'm going to be living in the city


75% moving from harlem after lease is up




it's just not the same as it used to be, huh? the good ol days




He droppin in about a decade too late.gf was living here already; don't get it twisted

 

[batmon]

PatrickCrazy said:batmon said:vintageinfants saidatrickCrazy said:I don't know how long i'm going to be living in the city


75% moving from harlem after lease is up




it's just not the same as it used to be, huh? the good ol days




He droppin in about a decade too late.gf was living here already; don't get it twisted




For how long?

 

[Brian]

I think 4 or five years; not sure





http://www.whosay.com/articles/1557-spike-lees-open-letter-to-the-new-york-times

 

[bassie]

ÔÇ£The Mission right now is in chaos with evictions,ÔÇØ Causa Justa member Cecilia Alvarado says in the report. ÔÇ£There is also nowhere to go. The units available are for people who earn $6,000 to $7,000 more than I do per monthÔÇönot for middle-class or working-class families, which had always been the status of the MissionÔÇöfamilies with kids.ÔÇØ