I found the Bushwick Daily to be an interesting website that provides insight about the community. For starters they have a section called “letters to Bushwick” where people can express their opinions, thoughts and concerns about important matters related to the community. One post that left an impression was a posted letter by a man who realized that he is part of the gentrification happening in Bushwick and as a result, sought out to speak to those who have lived there for a while. Gill, the neighborhood liquor store owner described how the area used to be filled with drugs and crime. Now, it is young people not from New York trying to survive in an already over populated city. He described it as “drunk post college kids running around where you grew up, forcing your mom and grandmother out of their homes.” Gill stresses that gentrification has made the area beautiful but difficult to afford when making minimum wage. (This point is proven in another post that describes a protest over a new build building that does not provide housing affordable for those already living in the community.)In the end, he posed the question of “What’re you bringing here?”

Can the new comers/ gentrification bring something positive to those already living there?

http://bushwickdaily.com/2015/04/letter-to-bushwick-at-the-intersection-of-the-gentrifier-and-the-gentrified-in-bushwick/