Supply and demand. Everyone wants to live in NY, so it’s getting overpopulated, causing prices to rise to discourage people moving there and keep the community in balance. Unfortunately people chose to just move to NY anyways, then bitch and moan that it’s too expensive.
don't be dissin methadone substitution clinics. When i lived on the street these clinics were the only contact i still had to normal society and it's just a very useful anchor for anyone with addiction.
He wasn’t hating, he said the homeless settlements and methadone charities are the majority of the “third places” over there. Like, third places other neighborhoods are like Starbucks and the library… 🫤
@@russellfrey4079 not that simple dumbass. Everything is made for us to get addicted to it. Capitalism exploits our brain chemistry and survival instincts.
@@russellfrey4079 not that easy when a crooked doc put you on those drugs before you were even old enough to live on your own, or even control your own medical care. That’s how MOST opiate addicts started- with a legal prescription.
@@Bigchebbaactually historically speaking gentrification and unequal living situations is a result of the long term effects of early stage American slavery as well as the time period leaving to the civil rights movement. If you want to act like living situations, raising rent prices leading to displacement of these migrant enclaves still trying to find true stable ground to build on, and the mass gentrification that chokes the life out of small businesses and effectively swaps entire communities out with a more wealthy population, isn’t at the very least partially effected by the historical inequalities Americans had experienced then tbh brah you lack critical thinking skills.
I went to college in Washington Heights. He answered his own question. In the 1920's, 30's, and 40's many Greek, Irish, and German-Jewish immigrants and workers moved there as the area was affordable yet increasingly connected to the rest of Manhattan thanks to expanding subway lines. By the 1960's and 70's, this community was already on its second or third generation, with many families having now risen to middle class. For them Washington Heights was a starter neighborhood--you live here while young, then you build up money and move somewhere nicer. Which is exactly what they did in the 1960's and 70's, when lower income Dominicans started moving into the area for the same reason that the lower income Europeans did earlier that century. By the 1980's, aside from a thin slice of Jews around the Yeshiva University campus, most of the younger White families had left with only aging, older residents remaining (who would pass away and be replaced by more Dominicans). Except that unlike the European immigrants, the Dominican population was not as successful in building itself up as the crack epidemic in the 80's and 90's resulted in rampant crime and ever decreasing property values. Things weren't as bad in the 2000's or 2010's. It was still known as a bad neighborhood when I went to college there but the area was becoming nicer. There was also something of a resurgence among the remaining White enclaves in the area. For instance, an increasing number of young Jewish residents were willing to stay in the area, with their families, after graduation rather than moving out as soon as they earned enough money. But of course this resulted in store and property owners realizing that they can now charge higher prices. So now we have cries of gentrification.
Why do you gentrify why do you leave quickly in droves when other move in homes near you. It’s not whaa it’s more like wtf you run away you come back anytime we see you it’s fucked up smd
Washington Heights was once known as the city's murder capital...Now, Washington Heights is one of the city's safest neighborhoods, and it ranks a respectable 24th out of 69 for per capita crime in
I meet an old lady that used lived there back in the 70s, she told me she knew it was time to moved when the new residents started triple parking their car, I totally understood her
What do you know about methadone young boy? Do you know it’s given to cancer patients for the excruciating pain one endures while dying? Do you know it’s the only pain relief for disabled people with extreme pain? Do you know it has saved countless lives? Not everyone on methadone is a junkie and I’m sure you have that uncle or auntie you don’t want people to know about that’s a crack head, alcoholic or addict . Addiction doesn’t discriminate and if you’re from NYC I’m sure you have that one family member. Other than that some of your videos on the city’s neglect are good.
You obviously read and you even replied as well as the other people that gave a like to my comment you sound as if I blew your spot with your loved ones after all the truth hurts 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
As far as missing the point I think you really should read my comment again you don’t know how to read because you missed the POINT!!!! After all I said some of his videos on the city’s neglect are GOOD!!! And that sums up the video “city neglect and change” which if you had any semblance of a brain you’d understand that’s all the video is about.
Black people called it white flight when the white man moved out of the neighborhoods after integration. Now they call if gentrification when white people move in and make the neighborhood look nice and clean
@@dunphy1238 blacks made it a race thing. If rent goes up then rent a new house or get a mortgage. If they cant afford the price increase they need to get a better paying job
@dunphy1238 it isn't a race thing. When you clean up your surroundings and make more than you take you make your surroundings more valuable. Plenty of blacks doing it to.
Yea, white flight and gentrification are connected because the neighborhood looks nice and clean when certain ppl move in. But I guess drugs and guns find their own ways into certain neighborhoods.
@@dunphy1238 then maybe they shouldnt rent. They can get a better paying job/education and buy a house. This is a free country and they have way more benefits than any other race
Now I understand why adults ( when I was a kid) would say that when you’d hear the term “ affordable housing “ you’d better watch out bc it was nothing good. I’ve witnessed affordable housing coming in and then it being forced out by gentrification … all the residents in my neighborhood welcomed it! We got a facelift to our downtown. Our schools became a better environment for All. We could jog , walk our dogs , and do the same things other People would do in “ upper class “ neighborhoods. It also made residents step up their game when it came to keeping their houses looking right…. Clean siding , maintained lawns and landscaping. I used to think the way you did and then I saw the realities. Can I add that crime went to down drastically bc now the new people call the cops on all suspicious activity and don’t practice the dump policy of “ no snitching”
Washington Heights is prime real estate, especially the Inwood Park area. I'm extremely surprised it hasn't turned to a complete luxurious neighborhood yet.
Was a huge fort and battle there in 1776. Hessian/British soldiers forced the surrender of the patriot garrison. Ft Washington. Ft. Lee across the river could only watch helplessly.
Hey man, I don't know why I thought you were annoying at first. Maybe cause you talk and put randos just standing around in your vids, but you grew on me. I never thought you were wrong with anything you said, but now I can feel the heartbreak. You make great content, small history lessons and exposing the corrupt and terrible world we live around. Keep it up. I wish you did more long form content talking about this stuff
I live in Washington heights and he’s really doing the neighborhood dirty. It’s a good area. All of those problems have been here for years. My mom grew up here in the 1970s/1980s and it is WAYYY better now than then.
You forgot to mention that the heights was the best spot in ny to buy fire coke if you were hustling back in the day. Been out the game for years who knows maybe it still is.
@jamardns77 I have a friend from Staten Island. His mom and stepdad got good jobs, moved out of the projects, and bought a big house in Jersey. Some people move up and some stay put. If the neighborhood moved up and you haven't, move on.
this ISNT HIS NEIGHBORHOOD. this guy is a fckin vulture with no love for my city; he uses its people purely for content. its disgusting how confused this young man is
Whatever they charge for rent in Manhattan will be the rent for every place outside of Manhattan eventually. You're not going to catch break on rent for very long by moving outside of Manhattan.
This guy is slightly annoying with filming those who don’t want to be filmed when they haven’t done anything to him but I really do love how smart he is and how much he seems to really love the city he lives in
@@ghjpkshdgtjdgvbzm nope everyone. I live in a neighborhood like that and I wouldn't want to go back to the past. Even the police pretend that they care.
I use to live in Washington heights 15 years ago now live in Massachusetts and I recently went out to nyc and it’s sad to say it’s different not in a good way
Dude, it was once a nice white neighborhood. It was never a dominican paradise. The decline started when dominicans moved in. I love dominican people. Just saying! You just walk around literally saying incorrect things in every video.
Relax people, this is just information he is sharing,thank God he is not on the streets begging,hungry and homeless.you are so critical,so ready to put people down.What are you doing to enlighten society? .. ,,
Btw this kid went to the complete end of washington heights and skipped 40 blocks of hispanics straight to a jewish neighborhood called Yeshiva. He is baiting you guys.
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lmao panning to the girl while talking about gentrification 👁️👄👁️
She was triggered. Or he. Oops. Sorry I assumed it’s gender.
That shit had me crying too 😂😂😂
Yo that was hilarious
Bros always so outta pocket with his filming it’s fucked but it’s funny so its aight
Was gunna say there no place thats perfect, even the richest towns will have a small drug presence these days
If you see this guy's back and his phone goes up, it's over for you.
Lmao
😂 I'm on the look out
Deadass
😂😂😂😂
NYC is too expensive for working class people
Supply and demand. Everyone wants to live in NY, so it’s getting overpopulated, causing prices to rise to discourage people moving there and keep the community in balance.
Unfortunately people chose to just move to NY anyways, then bitch and moan that it’s too expensive.
And its always been that way unfortunately
@jayinthebx not always. I was born and raised there. Someone would have to pay me to move back though
Exactly.
You say that like it’s an option
don't be dissin methadone substitution clinics. When i lived on the street these clinics were the only contact i still had to normal society and it's just a very useful anchor for anyone with addiction.
He wasn’t hating, he said the homeless settlements and methadone charities are the majority of the “third places” over there. Like, third places other neighborhoods are like Starbucks and the library… 🫤
Its pretty easy. Don't do drugs
@@russellfrey4079 not that simple dumbass. Everything is made for us to get addicted to it. Capitalism exploits our brain chemistry and survival instincts.
@@russellfrey4079 not that easy when a crooked doc put you on those drugs before you were even old enough to live on your own, or even control your own medical care. That’s how MOST opiate addicts started- with a legal prescription.
@@russellfrey4079 ok "russellfrey4079"
This kid is gonna go places respect to him
U should do the disconnect between mount vernon and pelhan ny. 90% white to 90% black all divided by a bridge
Not to disconnected every day people walking from New Rochelle to Mount Vernon through Pelham break into there cars and sometimes houses.
What disconnect?
Let black people stay in peace
It’s like that because of where people choose to live. Stop blaming race for your problems
@@TheAlchemist1089lmao "peace" your neighborhoods are shit
@@Bigchebbaactually historically speaking gentrification and unequal living situations is a result of the long term effects of early stage American slavery as well as the time period leaving to the civil rights movement. If you want to act like living situations, raising rent prices leading to displacement of these migrant enclaves still trying to find true stable ground to build on, and the mass gentrification that chokes the life out of small businesses and effectively swaps entire communities out with a more wealthy population, isn’t at the very least partially effected by the historical inequalities Americans had experienced then tbh brah you lack critical thinking skills.
I went to college in Washington Heights. He answered his own question. In the 1920's, 30's, and 40's many Greek, Irish, and German-Jewish immigrants and workers moved there as the area was affordable yet increasingly connected to the rest of Manhattan thanks to expanding subway lines. By the 1960's and 70's, this community was already on its second or third generation, with many families having now risen to middle class. For them Washington Heights was a starter neighborhood--you live here while young, then you build up money and move somewhere nicer.
Which is exactly what they did in the 1960's and 70's, when lower income Dominicans started moving into the area for the same reason that the lower income Europeans did earlier that century. By the 1980's, aside from a thin slice of Jews around the Yeshiva University campus, most of the younger White families had left with only aging, older residents remaining (who would pass away and be replaced by more Dominicans). Except that unlike the European immigrants, the Dominican population was not as successful in building itself up as the crack epidemic in the 80's and 90's resulted in rampant crime and ever decreasing property values. Things weren't as bad in the 2000's or 2010's. It was still known as a bad neighborhood when I went to college there but the area was becoming nicer. There was also something of a resurgence among the remaining White enclaves in the area. For instance, an increasing number of young Jewish residents were willing to stay in the area, with their families, after graduation rather than moving out as soon as they earned enough money.
But of course this resulted in store and property owners realizing that they can now charge higher prices. So now we have cries of gentrification.
Not “white”
Yea that was because of the crack epidemic... right. It's more cultural with a difference in work ethic and entrepreneurship
This dude absolutely cooks every video. Keep it up, my guy!
When white people move in - Whaa, whaa gentrification 😢😭😢
When white people move out - Whaa whaa white flight 😢😭😢😭
IDK why this isn't the top comment. This kid took one anthropology class and now has become a professional race hustler.
Why do you gentrify why do you leave quickly in droves when other move in homes near you. It’s not whaa it’s more like wtf you run away you come back anytime we see you it’s fucked up smd
White fragility is an epidemic.
It's gentrification because rent rose not because of white people.
@@Eric13478what do you have against loin clothes?
Yo that gentrification part got me weak lmaoooo
Bro he roasting people to their faces
New York seems like a shit place tbh
where do you live
You didn't deny it tho.@@Enlightened0ne
For those who aren’t lucky enough to own where they live or are rent stabilized
@@OukiLips I never went for it either.
Only in the city. North of Albany is beautiful, Catskills too.
Im dominican and used to live in the heights in the late 90s. You couldn't pay me enough to go back.
lmao the heights aren’t even that bad
I’m in the heights now and love it,
I live west of Broadway though
@John-gg6op well yea that area higher up is getting gentrified to shit lol
@@John-gg6op what race are you?
Crime is less then a quarter of what it was back in the 90s. 😅
Victim mindset✅ personal responsibility ❌
Washington Heights was once known as the city's murder capital...Now, Washington Heights is one of the city's safest neighborhoods, and it ranks a respectable 24th out of 69 for per capita crime in
The world needs as many young folks with this kind of wisdom as possible
nah he just yappin
he's out of touch
Y'all fools are just mad that he's so much wiser than you. Keep showing your jealousy 😏
@@tannerortg touch grass
@@FnGRZupra you're ignorant as hell, son
You're doing great work by sharing the truth 🙌
Good job showing this area too.
I meet an old lady that used lived there back in the 70s, she told me she knew it was time to moved when the new residents started triple parking their car, I totally understood her
Triple parking?
Triple parking is crazyyyy!
What does that mean
@@ArkhamDeluxe No idea. Hi Arkham.
It means they park sideways across three parking spaces
What do you know about methadone young boy? Do you know it’s given to cancer patients for the excruciating pain one endures while dying? Do you know it’s the only pain relief for disabled people with extreme pain? Do you know it has saved countless lives? Not everyone on methadone is a junkie and I’m sure you have that uncle or auntie you don’t want people to know about that’s a crack head, alcoholic or addict . Addiction doesn’t discriminate and if you’re from NYC I’m sure you have that one family member. Other than that some of your videos on the city’s neglect are good.
U WROTE ALL THAT 4 NOTHING NOBODY GONNA READ ALL THAT
,,, ESPECIALLY WHN U MISSED THE POINT OF WHAT HE SAID
You obviously read and you even replied as well as the other people that gave a like to my comment you sound as if I blew your spot with your loved ones after all the truth hurts 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
As far as missing the point I think you really should read my comment again you don’t know how to read because you missed the POINT!!!! After all I said some of his videos on the city’s neglect are GOOD!!! And that sums up the video “city neglect and change” which if you had any semblance of a brain you’d understand that’s all the video is about.
Black people called it white flight when the white man moved out of the neighborhoods after integration. Now they call if gentrification when white people move in and make the neighborhood look nice and clean
Nice and clean, but also bring in high prices that only THEY can afford. It shouldn’t be a race thing.
@@dunphy1238 blacks made it a race thing. If rent goes up then rent a new house or get a mortgage. If they cant afford the price increase they need to get a better paying job
@dunphy1238 it isn't a race thing. When you clean up your surroundings and make more than you take you make your surroundings more valuable. Plenty of blacks doing it to.
Yea, white flight and gentrification are connected because the neighborhood looks nice and clean when certain ppl move in. But I guess drugs and guns find their own ways into certain neighborhoods.
@@dunphy1238 then maybe they shouldnt rent. They can get a better paying job/education and buy a house. This is a free country and they have way more benefits than any other race
Now I understand why adults ( when I was a kid) would say that when you’d hear the term “ affordable housing “ you’d better watch out bc it was nothing good.
I’ve witnessed affordable housing coming in and then it being forced out by gentrification … all the residents in my neighborhood welcomed it! We got a facelift to our downtown. Our schools became a better environment for All. We could jog , walk our dogs , and do the same things other People would do in “ upper class “ neighborhoods. It also made residents step up their game when it came to keeping their houses looking right…. Clean siding , maintained lawns and landscaping.
I used to think the way you did and then I saw the realities.
Can I add that crime went to down drastically bc now the new people call the cops on all suspicious activity and don’t practice the dump policy of “ no snitching”
Great job shedding light and facts kid... 😢
My family grew up in Washington heights I spent all my weekends as a kid there miss it a lot
Your Videos are great!
Keep posting new content!
Dude. you kind of disrespectful putting people in your video and Low key insulting them.
He might get a hand full one day,if he is not careful.
@@abdouliejallow8678U a hater.
Washington Heights is prime real estate, especially the Inwood Park area. I'm extremely surprised it hasn't turned to a complete luxurious neighborhood yet.
I'm all the way in jamaica man n I love seeing what you doing.. u cud be gang banging pushing stuff but you opening ppls eyed my bro good job
He's a Yapper, just trying to be funny.
Was a huge fort and battle there in 1776. Hessian/British soldiers forced the surrender of the patriot garrison. Ft Washington. Ft. Lee across the river could only watch helplessly.
Hey man, I don't know why I thought you were annoying at first. Maybe cause you talk and put randos just standing around in your vids, but you grew on me. I never thought you were wrong with anything you said, but now I can feel the heartbreak. You make great content, small history lessons and exposing the corrupt and terrible world we live around. Keep it up. I wish you did more long form content talking about this stuff
I like how you said gentrification and videotape the white woman coming out of a supermarket.
Honestly, thats a ass hole move.
Lmao that was wild fr
@@hatman9609😂😂😂
Victim moment
She just wanted to get food, like ayo wtf
Gentrifier caught red handed while on a grocery run 😂.
Gentrified? Yall weirdos love poverty
What did she do wrong?
She is white @@Adhtgndjw3jr342
Lmfao!! 😆
@@Adhtgndjw3jr342 she decided to live in upper Manhattan with the wrong skin color apparently
Dude said “ get tf out the stre.. “ 😂😂😂😂
I live in Washington heights and he’s really doing the neighborhood dirty. It’s a good area. All of those problems have been here for years. My mom grew up here in the 1970s/1980s and it is WAYYY better now than then.
LUV WHAT YOU ARE DOING YOUNG BRO....YOUR GENERATION ESPECIALLY NEEDS TO JEAR EVERYTHING YOU BE SAYING....KEEP GOING N GO HARD!
I went to high school in Washington Heights its a shame what happened to the neighborhood. It was beautiful years ago.
Im starting to see a pattern in these communities.
I love what you are doing!
Being from upstate, NYC is eating itself. Sad and gratifying.
yall listen to in the heights or read the book. it talks about this from the pov of the residents and it’s beautiful.
You forgot to mention that the heights was the best spot in ny to buy fire coke if you were hustling back in the day. Been out the game for years who knows maybe it still is.
2011.
I love when you get these wyt transplant gentrifiers in your videos.
Imagine being pissed about your neighborhood improving and business coming back. 😂
They're pissed they can't afford to live in their neighborhoods anymore because housing is out of control
When the rent doubles, of course you're going to have an issue with it
@jamardns77 I have a friend from Staten Island. His mom and stepdad got good jobs, moved out of the projects, and bought a big house in Jersey. Some people move up and some stay put. If the neighborhood moved up and you haven't, move on.
this ISNT HIS NEIGHBORHOOD. this guy is a fckin vulture with no love for my city; he uses its people purely for content. its disgusting how confused this young man is
@@movienerd202That entitled mindset you have is very backwards. Educate yourself.
He's right, that's sad, come on government
You're awesome kid!! Love your journalism.
New Yorkers vote in the policy that causes this, then complain about gentrification and COL increase. Lol
Certified victim mindset✅
How? Say more. Articulate.
Whatever they charge for rent in Manhattan will be the rent for every place outside of Manhattan eventually. You're not going to catch break on rent for very long by moving outside of Manhattan.
Lived upthere in the 90s.It was horrible. The natives kept telling me to go back down to 125st/Harlem
The only good thing Washington Heights has going for it is that it isn't Harlem.
It was always a shythole.
What this guy is showing is actually a vast improvement over the crap that it was before.
Now its just unaffordable.
This guy is slightly annoying with filming those who don’t want to be filmed when they haven’t done anything to him but I really do love how smart he is and how much he seems to really love the city he lives in
YO!!!! He got no chill in dissin people in front of their faces. LMAO!!!
Quoting 3rd places, Robert mosses, who is this guy!?? He's incredible!
Bro stop saying it’s awkward, I live there
New York should be ashamed of how it is treating the citizens of its great city. 😢
As Dominican with family who lived in the heights for 30+ years I can safely say it’s still a Dominican paradise but rent is getting a bit out hand
gentrification part was wild PLSS 😭☠️
The last place was eastern Queens but even that is slowly getting more expensive. Though no trains it's safe for now.
Good shit bro. Just hope you aren't blaming methadone clinics. Unfortunately they are a "nevessary evil".
Kid the 90s where wild in the heights thank God it changed
I'm so impressed by you bro, you are making a difference
Always remember American blacks built this country from the foundation
How so?
@@CMV314slaves
My man is a self-taught sociologist.
The europeans returned. Better quality of life. More police on patrol. More restaurants
better quality of life for a certain demographic of people**
@@ghjpkshdgtjdgvbzm nope everyone. I live in a neighborhood like that and I wouldn't want to go back to the past. Even the police pretend that they care.
Not just NYC looking like this
All of America prices are rising and simply living is becoming harder and harder
I use to live in Washington heights 15 years ago now live in Massachusetts and I recently went out to nyc and it’s sad to say it’s different not in a good way
Bro wash heights been great for like 100 years straight
Imagine just trying to go about your day and somebody uses your race to back up their statistic by shoving you in the background of their shot
colleges do it all the time to minorities.
If I see dude he won’t be posting much mlre
@@Saviorsensilmao keep talking tough you actual loser keyboard warrior.
Wow that really hurt you @Bob_Bob_
@@Saviorsensiok bob
Ayo gang did you REALLY just talk greasy on folks trying to get off drugs(clinic)
You smarter then that gang i thought...
A guy bitching about everything. Lol
quiet down white boy
Lifes not flowers and rainbows for everyone
username doesnt check out
not everyone lives in fantasy land. real life is tough for most people
Boo fucking hoo Daniel💀
The population of nyc is going down everyone but the population of manhattan is growing with all the luxury housing being built
The best green space. Lmao
At one point in time you could buy a RPG in the heights.
It goes to show you that folks want to be with their own kind. If you keep your neighborhoods clean you want have flights from communities
Keep voting for democrats it’s working great
I despise gentrification
You should get into politics, or work for the city so you can make some changes. You would do a lot of good.
Better than just walking around and complaining.
You want area to be for specific types of people. Any one can live where ever they want.
THATS MY HOOD best neighborhood fr
yea the heights is falling apart and getting bad again rent is shit over here unless you got it back then
Do Coney Island!
There’s genterficstion in coney ?
When "awkward middle stage of gentrification" lady said :I i felt that
bro. Learn boundaries.
It’s nothing like the musical anymore, that much is certain
"Once a European Neighborhood" I thought bro was on our side for a second there
I grew up in the Heights in the 80s thru the Crack epidemic. We finally left after the riots .
Can someone explain the problem with methadone?? Why are people so against it?
They leave those neighborhoods because of crime and upgrades in their life.
Dude, it was once a nice white neighborhood. It was never a dominican paradise. The decline started when dominicans moved in. I love dominican people. Just saying! You just walk around literally saying incorrect things in every video.
Its real, it was so Dominican over there, we used to call it Quisqueya Heights😅
It's fine there bro it's actually called little Dr it's not bad there.
Relax people, this is just information he is sharing,thank God he is not on the streets begging,hungry and homeless.you are so critical,so ready to put people down.What are you doing to enlighten society?
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Dude is so disrespectful 😂
Washington heights isn’t as bad as your making it seem my guy. Been here for 36 years
He is completely lying
Good morning, sending positive vibes your way. I hope you're having a great day. Please stay safe❤❤❤❤😮😢
Lmao they yelled at him for being in the street during a do not walk lmao
What happen is the Dominicans destroyed it
Btw this kid went to the complete end of washington heights and skipped 40 blocks of hispanics straight to a jewish neighborhood called Yeshiva. He is baiting you guys.
Is this New York?… I mean the better question to ask is why is anyone in New York
USA is slowing transforming there mega cities and if u can’t afford to live there goodbye. 😢