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damnatio_memoriae t1_jalgknx wrote

Reply to comment by clorox2 in NYC is more ethnically diverse, less racially segregated, report finds by Ice_Business

washington heights is awesome but it feels like it's on the cusp of ruin.

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payeco t1_jalt89j wrote

Care to expand? I haven’t been up there in years.

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clorox2 t1_jamc1np wrote

Maybe he means in the cusp of gentrification, which would be accurate.

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survive_los_angeles t1_jamt5dq wrote

everything changes. its the totality

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midtownguy70 t1_jank65c wrote

This is the kind of change that we humans can actually guide and control. It is not an asteroid or earthquake. This is top-down gentrification, not bottom up. It is the result of zoning changes and decisions made largely at the level of local and state government. Same way they encouraged white flight in the other direction during the days of redlining.

Not all change is good. If we just throw up our arms at everything and say "change happens" we aren't taking control of our destiny or protecting what we have.

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iv2892 t1_jamf0ur wrote

I was there last Saturday and it never felt more alive , what do you mean ?

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LongIsland1995 t1_janjtot wrote

If you mean too many white folk, they seem to stay mostly to the West of Broadway.

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lexszn t1_jaqtr9l wrote

yup. anything west of broadway from 163rd all the way up to the cloisters

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