#Mayor Eric Adams, you can’t equate gentrification with slavery

Admin4 years ago03 mins

“Mayor Eric Adams, you can’t equate gentrification with slavery” Mayor Eric Adams needs to learn that the nonsense he could spout to select audiences as Brooklyn beep won’t fly in higher office. The obvious example: his Juneteenth rant about the city needing to “do better” to protect black neighborhoods, literally equating gentrification to the slave…

#Gentrification is nothing like slavery — in fact, it’s about freedom

Admin4 years ago07 mins

“Gentrification is nothing like slavery — in fact, it’s about freedom” Mayor Eric Adams was right to honor the memory of Seneca Village, the community of free blacks that once stood on part of the site used to create Central Park. But he’s misguided in asserting, as he did in his Juneteenth speech, that gentrification —…

#Brooklyn’s white population surges as black residents exit

Admin5 years ago06 mins

“#Brooklyn’s white population surges as black residents exit” It’s a tale of two Brooklyns. Kings County led the city’s massive population growth over the past decade with a 9.2 percent jump — higher than any other borough, according to data released by the U.S. Census Bureau. But there’s a stark demographic divide behind that increase….