On Flatbush, a $3 Billion Pipeline of Projects
There is more than $3.1 billion of construction projects in the pipeline for the one mile stretch of Flatbush Avenue between the Manhattan Bridge and the Williamsburgh Bank building, calculates The New York Post this morning. Here’s how it breaks down: In addition, there’s another $1 billion in projects off the northern end of Flatbush…
There is more than $3.1 billion of construction projects in the pipeline for the one mile stretch of Flatbush Avenue between the Manhattan Bridge and the Williamsburgh Bank building, calculates The New York Post this morning. Here’s how it breaks down: 
In addition, there’s another $1 billion in projects off the northern end of Flatbush and, of course, a $4 billion project some of you may have heard of called Atlantic Yards. “Flatbush Avenue is the borough’s quintessential boulevard and the gateway into Brooklyn,” said Joseph Chan, president of the Downtown Brooklyn Partnership. “It is to Brooklyn what Broadway is to Manhattan, and it is poised for some dramatic change.”
Boom on Flatbush [NY Post] GMAP
Resorting to violence. How chic.
Still waiting for your information, coward…
Come to Tompkins and Hancock my office is on the corner of Hancock in Bed Stuy, bring it on. Notice where you took it and who you challenge and that says everything about you.
Cowards hiding behind keyboards?
And where on this thread have you provided your name, address, and telephone number?
You’re just as anonymous and cowardly as anyone else who posts here.
Hypocrite.
You folks are not aware of the recent history of New York, I am 47 years old and I moved to Brooklyn in June of 1967 and when my mother first went looking for a house to purchase it was made clear to her where she would not be welcomed because of her skin color. As for myself as a youth in Brooklyn we knew that Bay Ridge or Bensonhurst or Breezy Pt. or Howard Beach or Carnarsie meant certain death. The actual pick up truck event happened in another galaxy called Texas but we have had our share of lynchings in Brooklyn and Queens in my 40 years here. The fact that the jewels that you are sporting were stolen from Africa and millions were killed in the process should still historically and factually have black people more afraid of you than you are of them. Why be afraid of a people that were kidnapped and subsequently enslaved and then criminalized and incarcerated? GUILT! And this shit is all about land/real estate or what the land has under it. I am scared of white mobs, but by yourselves or hiding behind a keyboard you are cowards. Here is how you know you are racist and or an ass wipe: you have no empathy or sympathy for others suffering and you would never make the comments in public that are made on these blogs.
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Where in NYC does that pick-up truck shit happen? NOWHERE.
On the other hand, ask my girlfriend why she refuses to go to the Fulton Mall anymore. Racism exists everywhere, but Fulton Street might be the only place in NYC where she’s mocked with “ching chong” or “jap wap” TO HER FACE.
Or why ANY sane white person tries not to go anywhere near the mostly black housing projects. Because black folk will KILL for sneakers or if they think you looked at their girlfriend the wrong way.
It’s not “ignorance” or “racism”. It’s knowing that more black men are in prison than in college. It’s knowing that black men commit more crimes as a percentage of the population any anyone else.
Hell yeah black people scare me.
You’re right. There’s no reason to ever fear anyone of African descent. You have opened my eyes. It being a hot summer evening, I think I’ll take a long stroll down Pitkin Avenue through Brownsville and East New York dripping in expensive jewelry, because I have nothing to fear. Thanks for changing my life. Nothing to fear. Yay.
Never heard of any black people chaining an Asian or white person to their pick-up truck and driving them around until they disintegrated; so I repeat who shoul be afraid of who.
/\ to Anon 6:27
Ummm, in 1960 NYC had 435 murders.
in 1970 it had 1,200.
Facts are facts.
And it’s not like Whites were the only ones who fled. Lots of middle-class Blacks left too.
And for the record, Black people don’t scare me
truer words were never spoken…er…written, anon 12:24!