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Gentrification is an interesting topic to me. Since I have started college, I moved to a room in Bushwick, Brooklyn with a friend of my cousin’s. It’s weird to be living in an area that is so heavily gentrified because I don’t really associate entirely with either the population that is gentrifying the area- young urban professionals; or the population that is being taken over by gentrification- a mostly lower income Latinx population. I grew up in a suburb of New York City where the popular culture was mostly delayed New York City culture so I don’t feel like an outsider to youth New York culture. At the same time, I feel a similarity with the way that I dress and interests I have with these “gentrifiers.” It’s a strange line to straddle, because most people are older than me and have pretty different life situations than I do. However, attending school here at CUNY has made me feel more like a “native” New Yorker, because those are the kinds of people I spend time with every day.
