Crown Heights Proposal

Our group has decided to focus on the problems of gentrification facing Crown Heights: the new influx of people moving in pushing out the Caribbean populous that has been in Crown Heights for decades. We have three verbal testimonies from people related to the influx of the higher-income gentry moving in from the Western Prospect Heights. We’ve noticed while walking through the neighborhood that there is a tension that exists between the native residents and the incoming population. How this might affect the two competing populations within Crown Heights (The Caribbean and the Jewish) remains to be seen in some ways, since the movement has not extended farther than Franklin. One verbal testimony has pointed out the positive benefits of gentrification (improved services and policing), the question remains of how to maintain the integrity of the community already existing in Crown Heights with housing while accommodating the new residents encroaching on the neighborhood.

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