i want to cry when i see what they took from us.

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Those are beautiful photos. Film is amazing.

That's kind of a nationwide thing among all cultures now. Life has become more sterile

Imagine seeing businesses/capital/professionals/full service buildings *fucking finally* arriving up to Harlem and thinking that's a bad thing, and pining for the days of dodging muggers and crackheads.

Even in the past 12 years, the LES has become so... sterile.

you don't even hear the accent (in Spanish) anywhere in NYC now.

>Imagine seeing businesses/capital/professionals/full service buildings *fucking finally* arriving up to Harlem and thinking that's a bad thing, and pining for the days of dodging muggers and crackheads.

1. full service building means more expensive, its not like you get the extra services for free. Hence people get priced out.
2. There are no muggers or crackheads in the photo, that is you projecting. I know the 80s had more muggers and crack heads but the person is reminiscing on lost youth and sense of place and you are shouting 'danger danger' like that scared robot.
3. Where did the post say its a good / bad thing. Just said things change with time. Why you trying to be like that?

What is extra stuff for free is look at the prices of old TVs compared to what you can get for the same dollar (not inflation adjusted) now.

I blame air conditioning.

>you are shouting 'danger danger' like that scared robot.

Or maybe I am speaking from experience because my aunt and grandmother lived in the projects on 115th and 2nd ave from 1982 - 2020, where I was also born, and spend my life visiting and seeing crazy shit.

Also: helicopter parents, the internet, video games, etc.

There are still projects and you still have to keep your head on a swivel around them. The issue wasn't w places getting better and safer, but who has been allowed to stay to experience that increased safety in their community. Obviously

And it's still one of the more interesting neighborhoods in NYC

That's more like West Harlem though. East Harlem is still rough while also skyrocketing in price

Therein lies the contradiction though.

The neighborhoods got safer because certian people got pushed out (not all).

So it’s a double edged sword.

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People living in these areas has never been the issue, the issue is clearly larger right and it's just easier to blame people who are trying to survive.

Those badly designed new condos and hotels are attracting all the wrong people and chopping up the continuity and cohesion of the streetscapes. They look like tumors.

All the previous cycles were working and middle class so it was vibrant and amazing. You don't get that with the kind of upper class newcomers arriving en masse to sterilize the place.

Mostly one "culture" tbh...the mainstream white transplant culture.

Well said.

Both sides of town are being demolished and sterilized for the benefit of the replacement humans moving here.

You can go to any neighborhood with 0 white transplants, and it still won't resemble the pre-internet/cell phone world at all

True.