june 28 2004
Over the past 2 weeks I’ve been out more frequently that I have been in the past 2 years and I can say without flinching that Brooklyn has changed more in the past 3 years than in the past 10. Bodegas have turned into sushi restaurants. Book stores, barber shops, vacant lots, and other land marks that I grew up with are all pretty much gone. And with it the people. Even WLIB has been gentrified.
I heard the Nets were moving to Brooklyn and the African street fair is not going to be at Boys and Girls High school this year after having been there for over 30 years…why?
Don’t get me wrong. I want to see a clean Brooklyn just like everybody else but… Target, and Starbucks? To me that’s not Brooklyn. There are books and classes about this process but no one can ever tell you how it feels until it happens to your neighborhood. I welcome change and understand it is inevitable, but at the same time I am really going to miss the Brooklyn I grew up in.
*shrug*
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