This is actually pretty sad to think about

http://dlgmedia.nyc/video-denouncin...er&utm_medium=SFYS&utm_campaign=#dailysofrito


BROOKLYN GENTRIFICATION IS REAL

Brooklyn gentrification is real. On Thursday August 11th, community leader, entrepreneur and proud Brooklyn boricua Georges Torres, aka el “Urban Jibaro” shot a Facebook Video Live that went viral for days. The theme of the video? The gentrification of Brooklyn and its devastating impact on Puerto Rican small businesses.

The video starts with a shot of Graham Avenue | Avenue of Puerto Rico in Brooklyn.

Torres starts off by referencing a 2013 article stating that newcomers of the neighborhood were in favor of a “rebrand” of the iconic avenue endangering the loss of tradition and diminishing the cultural contribution of the Puerto Rican community in Brooklyn.

The Facebook caption of the video says it all:

Are you still ANGRY about potentially losing the “Avenida de Puerto Rico” in Brooklyn because our new neighbors want to “rebrand” and erase our contributions to this community? George Torres
SAN GERMÁN RECORDS

Then, Torres enters to a store called San Germán Records, an institution that has been operating for over 50 years in the neighborhood and that is now struggling to stay in business. As Torres peruses around the store to show live what the store looks like, and to urge his community to visit the business, he explains that San Germán Records is a jewel in Brooklyn. They have been organizing the Three King Day Parade for 20 years and, for the first time, they are struggling to put it together. George interviews the store owner who tells his powerful story of commitment to the community through the parade. As the video progresses, numerous people react. Some express outrage, other promise their support to the store through shopping visits, donations and exposure of the story.

I KNOW IS INNEVITABLE AND ITS HAPPENING ALL OVER THE COUNTRY, BUT WHATS HAPPENED TO BROOKLYN OVER THE LAST DECADE IS STRAIGHT UP CULTURAL GENOCIDE.

Demographics change everyday b

What gets me is that the majority of my friends that moved out to Brooklyn are white and they all whine and moan about gentrification. 

I don't think they realize that just because they're poor/struggling doesn't mean that they didn't help set the framework for the richer, yuppy/trust-fund kids to move into the neighborhood.  They helped to change the demographics of a lot of areas of Brooklyn, making it easier for white people with money to feel comfortable moving into the area.  

Money always wins.

Been in NYC for the last 4 months, just like the bay area all the natives got comfortable. Let everyone slide in and take it away.

Not any worse than the Indian Removal Act.

Thread topic to screename ratio is

What is Harlem like around 122nd? Last time I was there was damn bear a decade ago and eveb then it was just Bank of America, Duane Reade's, McD/Subway repeated block after block

Brooklyn is set to become da 2nd largest city in da United States, if it wasn't connected to NYC.

alot of it is has to do with da fact that home ownership is at a 50+ year low.

once people go back to da burbs and da economy gets back to normal US Exceptionalism
levels, da pressures of da cities absorbing all these folks will be relieved & reversed.

People need to just start robbing and beating up the hipsters and making them feel uncomfortable and not welcome in their new neighborhoods.

When the stickup kids run up on Blake and Corey a few times, they'll eventually move back to Wisconsin and Iowa.

Man even at LES u see it too. Straight up the slums. Yet a few blocks up past the Wilson houses it's dam near condos

Its just ridiculous man. I would even compare this to the Rio Olympics where ppl were killed ked out their houses cause tourists would have seen their "undesirable" homes

Les looks like a frat house

Cultural genocide?

People get priced out of neighborhoods everyday, b.

Cedric Ceballos said:

People need to just start robbing and beating up the hipsters and making them feel uncomfortable and not welcome in their new neighborhoods.

When the stickup kids run up on Blake and Corey a few times, they'll eventually move back to Wisconsin and Iowa.

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Step one of gentrification is upping police presence.

Yeah said:

Cultural genocide?

People get priced out of neighborhoods everyday, b.

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It's not just that fam, they are practically washing out all the black and Latino peeps and their business fronts because they no longer represent the neighborhood....:x

I mean we've covered this extensively before. It didn't stop.