What's your 'hood think of you?
February 09, 2012

The day I showed up in a moving truck with ten of my similar-looking friends, a woman on my building’s stoop commented not so quietly into her phone, “All these white people got the wrong building.” No wonder: according to a recent New York Times article, the number of people like me in Crown Heights, Brooklyn, has grown 15 percent over the last decade, driving up rent prices 36 percent in 2011 alone. Naturally, as we flood in, others head out.

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