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Brooklyn Public Library had an amazing podcast episode about slavery in Brooklyn a little while back. We like to Brooklyn Born And Raised New York City Shirt think that slavery wasn’t a big deal up here but there was a time when 1/3 of the population of Brooklyn was enslaved. I was reading the Hamilton biography and I was surprised how many families in NYC owned slaves since in schools it was presented mostly as a southern thing. I’m honestly surprised that most of these guys owned less than a dozen now. Most of them were very wealthy land barons who owned huge farms and that’s why the streets carry their names today. Being rich and powerful virtually guaranteed it but any white person who’s family has been in the US for 5+ generations should come to terms with the likelihood that they have ancestors who owned people, too.

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It makes sense when you think about Brooklyn in 1790. These were large farms, usually named after the Brooklyn Born And Raised New York City Shirt head of the household. So you’d go from Lefferts farm to Nostrand’s farm. Eventually when the real estate market got to the point that it became more profitable to parcel the farmland out and develop the farm names became the names of the avenues that used to border the farms. I’m living pretty cozy in Bushwick on six figures. Not like this, but we found a roomy place with flexibility and snapped it up. 5k between four people (i actually like my roommates) with a fuckton of space and multiple full bathrooms in a great location with a 30min commute. It’s possible, but most people I know in NYC are living way beyond their means in a tiny space too close to the city.

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Yes. Obviously there are many people like you. But there are also many people who are subsidized by family wealth. Since that wealth is largely invisible because no one acknowledges it, it leaves a lot of Brooklyn Born And Raised New York City Shirt people wondering how an intern/assistant/aspiring actor/insert here can afford such rents. I’m just reminding people not to feel bad if they haven’t achieved such wealth because many people haven’t. That’s a really roundabout way of saying White people Brooklyn bad, Brown people Brooklyn good. It seems to me gentrified Brooklyn is objectively better as people are streaming into it instead of driving around it.

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