This is a question that long time residents should be asking themselves. It appears that this website that is supposed to promote our neighborhood does not allow African-Americans or other minorities to post. One could say that they are trying to purge long time minority residents both online and off. It isn't enough that they have made a concerted effort to drive out the minority businesses on Cortelyou, now they want to drive out the remaining minority residents in an effort to create their all-white utopia in Brooklyn.
As someone who has been here before these people were probably ever born, I will not be silenced.
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ReplyDeleteshouldn't this blog be named "save flatbush" or "save victorian flatbush" since "ditmas park" is a) a neighborhood association that didn't ask for the area to be renamed after their assoc 2) a moniker used by realtors to sell the neighborhood to the very people you can't stand?
ReplyDeleteThis is the racist blog.
ReplyDeleteAnonymous at 9:39 - it is a riff off the much despised website called ditmas park blog.
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ReplyDeleteYour posts have not and will not be posted on "A Peregrination" because the subject was and is Atlantic Yards.
ReplyDeleteShould you want to drop your rants about people who reside in Ditmas Park and speak to subject I will be glad to post your comments.
Your comments have been archived and will be made available to the proper authorities who monitor abusive comments.
Archive away!
ReplyDeleteYou asked me a question about where I lived and I responded. If that is what you consider abusive so be it.
I also know how to archive Peregrine and have a son who knows how to save screen images so even though you delete your comments, they are still saved.
No one forced you to post on my website. Last time I checked I have every right to write my opinions and if you don't like what I have to say, don't read. IT IS MY WEBSITE
Ditmas Park is a racist neighborhood. Its funny how a certain race a people move in and want to run minorities who have been living their all their lives away. I live in the neighborhood and the restaurants and new businesses are not very friendly to minorities.
ReplyDeleteI am white and visit the neighborhood often. I have seen many minorities patronize the restarants and businesses and have NEVER be mistreated in any way. Please explain what you mean by "not friendly". Nobody has pushed anyone out. The new businesses took over vacant storefronts.
DeleteI was referring to minority customers who have NEVER been mistreated. This is a neighborhood where everyone is treated equally. It should be a model for NYC>
DeleteLast night I was in Ditmas Park, stopping first at Cafe Madeline and then at Sycamore and Connecticut Muffin. In all three both white and minority customers were enjoying the food and drink and no one was being treated differently. I do not understand what "Anonymous" meant by the new businesses not being friendly to minorities.
ReplyDeleteFirst of all this blog should really be called "Flatbush Blog' not Ditmas Park blog. The only true Ditmas Park is that parcel of land purchased in 1902 to build homes for successful business people. The developer named it Ditmas Park. The surrounding area is and always was just plain Flatbush.
ReplyDeleteSo if you all outside the historic district think you live in or patronize a restaurant in Ditmas Park, you're mistaken.. Realtors have latched onto the name and call everything around the original one Ditmas Park,
If you wanna save Flatbush, Ditmas Park, South Prospect - whatever the hell you wanna call it - why don't you stop targeting the "white" gentrification. Try targeting the scum bag drug dealers that hang outside of buildings they don't even live in (Church and Ocean I'm looking at you). Target the people cheating the system, the people both of our tax dollars are keeping alive. Gentrification doesn't have a skin color, but it does have a price tag. Do your homework and stop with this sad sack racist horse shit.
ReplyDeleteThe fact is from the 1850's to late 1970's Flatbush was a thriving white community. White residents were forced to move as poor minorities moved in bringing with them crime drugs and poverty and a total disregard for civilized living. They destroyed Flatbush ave after the 1978 blackouts. Erasmus Hall once had one of the highest scholastic ratings until 1972. This is not racism it is reality. So now 50 years later white are moving back to Flatbush elevating the neighborhood this is evolution not racism deal with it.
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