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Date Posted: Saturday, October09, 11:39:am
Author: 🤷🏻‍♀️
Subject: Re: Huh?
In reply to: James 's message, "Huh?" on Friday, October08, 05:15:pm

Because Newburgh has decades of unresolved issues around gentrification and urban “renewal” so unless and until those issues are dealt with, anti-gentrified will continue to make their opinions known.

Many Newburgh natives lost their property and their livelihoods when UR came to town. No one was ever really “made whole” as if you ever could make someone whole after destroying their homes/businesses. Gentrification has been both the boom and the bane to this ‘Burgh.

Some of us, if we’re still around, remember the vibrancy of shopping on Water St.; had friends on Colden, Montgomery, 1st, 2nd, 3rd, Clinton, Grand; we remember the days when Broadway was a showplace, a fashion hub, a magical broad way all lit up for Christmas and shop windows decorated to the nines; the smell of the bakeries lining B’way & the sense that the fabric of the community still held. Those are long ago memories of a city that will never be again. The only hope is it will be something different.

Instead of worrying about gentrification, people should be outraged at the lack of professional government & a bunch a poseurs acting as if they know. They don’t know diddly.

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  • Re: Huh? -- Artistic Bullshit, Saturday, October09, 03:50:pm
  • Re: Huh? -- Reality, Wednesday, October13, 05:25:pm
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