Has gentrification taking over every borough in New York?

When you walk around the three major boroughs of New York you immediately feel a difference, it feels like the culture has shifted and it’s not the same neighborhood that you grow up in as children.

Today on Adam Clayton Powell it seems like you were walking the streets of Time Square, It was large crowds of Caucasian families walking down the block taking photos of historic sites, jogging and some feeling entitled and bothered. It makes you asks where has the culture gone?

Gentrification over the past six years has caused rent in Brooklyn and Harlem to sky rocket in prices that have become unaffordable to families who have lived in the area for generations.

“I’ve been in Brooklyn my entire life, I left for college and came back. The change that’s taking in my neighborhood is shocking, back in my day a brown stone would cost $1500 to rent now prices start at $2000 and its not fair.” Said Shenika Sharpe long term resident of Bedstuy.

How can we keep the black history of these neighborhoods prevalent? “It’s important to make sure we educate our youth on the history the neighborhoods that they are being raised in “said Bernard Jenkins city council member of Harlem.

We must continue to lift our communities up.