Subway Diary

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novalis
Aug 31, 2018 · 2 min read

This morning a man gave an eloquent speech on the subway, while the train was still in the Flatbush neighborhood, where I depart from, about the re-zoning of neighborhoods. ‘This is the last affordable neighborhood in Brooklyn,” the man said, which is right. ‘If you’re not careful,’ he added, ‘white kids will start moving in and you won’t be able to afford to live here.’

At this point, I was the only white person on the train. But I also recognized the man was right: young white people are the symptom of re-zoning, gentrification, displacement; there’s no way around it.

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