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“Neighborhoods are always in flux. And even though I may look like a gentrifier, I actually am not because my father grew up on Union street between Kingston and Brooklyn and I live in the other side of the neighborhood in what was a warehouse so I’m not living in a place that was somebody’s home. Crown Heights have always been ethnically and racially diverse and that’s what’s beautiful about it. . . there’s still gun shots at five o’clock in the afternoon on franklin avenue it’s never going to be fully gentrified and I think that’s a good thing. Change has its good points and its bad points . . . The kind of rich white people that you see moving to Bedstuy because the townhouses are a little cheaper than in the city, they have no interest In being part of the community. They have no interest in learning about the history of the neighborhood.”