As odd it may seem to some I am very borough centric, I love the Bronx! Although I am a very uptown type of girl ( I discovered this after I journeyed to 161st to a bar...needless to say I stuck out like a soar thumb). The borough is where my heart is and although in road rage induced rants I run down the list of vulgar slurs I love the people as well. I say all this to say that we all must become painfully aware of what is and has gone on around us. Do we want to suffer the same fate as Harlem Lovers...losing the Rich culture and historic value to the gentrification of our home town.
Life uptown is a hybrid between the hustle of the city and the greenery of a more suburban life. Unlike many other boroughs racial borders are easily blurred as multiple backgrounds occupy the same buildings, blocks and schools. The type of gentrification that I would call the power of multiples or pigeon holing has bought a host of 24 hour laundromats, beauty supply stores and fast-food restaurants to our neighborhoods. With the occasional car dealer ship or auto shop. I once had an associate who after returning home from college was gleeful about the change..commenting how nice and new everything was looking. This saddened me because it was this sentiment that will continue to bankrupt our "town" into nothing more than a rotating landscape of fast food restaurant, laundrymat, beauty supply and did I mention Check chasers.
Beware of the pale man bearing a solution to the problem that they them selves created--( Yes I my self am pale and this makes refrence solely to a system of discourse rather than a race of people)
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