The Cost of Gentrification in Brooklyn - Beyond the Scenes
The Daily Show: Ears Edition
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What Saved New York City in the Sixties?
i grew up in the bronx and it took a psychic change to move to brooklyn. We moved there because we were able to get a house at a very low price. So we've been living there for a long time. And it was when people were leaving the city. The city was losing population in the seventies, you know, new york city was losing maybe 30 thousand apartments a year. It was shrinking. What saved the city were the community base organizations and the groups like bedsie restoration.
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