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As far as I can tell, this isn't even in a nice part of New York.

• garethsprice 11y ago
  It's a working class Caribbean neighborhood right now but was originally built as housing for middle-class Victorian clerics, so there's a lot of beautiful but run down buildings & great transport links (ie. ripe for gentrification). In the 90s it was extremely rough (race riots), now it's fairly safe and the artisanal coffee shops and trendy restaurants are creeping southwards as the city's population continues to grow & get priced out of other areas. Guessing a flop house packed with affluent young tech bros is going to throw some gasoline on the Crown Heights hyper-gentrification fire, for better or worse.