some of the interviews

Audio Store Interview:

Why you're here:

Um I actually didn't I moved to Bushwick, um which is 20 minutes away yea I moved here because i was done with school and I needed a job so the best way to do it was to move here and find one

Some of the most drastic changes:

well at one point i heard about two years ago they were kicking out street vendors, like cops were literally kicking them off the streets and uh real estate has gone up drastically.

Where the community is going:

Brooklyn crazy Brooklyn is the most it changes so much it'll go up down left and right i can see it getting more like the lower east side definitely, i mean it could get better it could get worse, Brooklyn is nuts

What you think of Williamsburg now:

now um there are certain parts that are better than others um some parts are really really gentrified especially over the past 4 years I remember the first time i came to Williamsburg I was 19 and it was dingy, it was really dingy, Im 23 now so that's like, and its a lot nicer

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Baby Store Interview

um the thing is I've been living here for 6 years already and I know the history of it, I dont know if you know that 15 year ago you wouldn't want to come here because you would get shot and uh down the st its really known for selling cocaine and stuff like that you know, it used to be and there are bullet holes in some of the houses still when you walk around.but now its like its so popular and its like when you walk around you feel like everyone is a movie star or you know like a rock-star its very inspiring i think because everybody has really good style and stuff like that but its also very pretentious and everybody is a fucking artist

mm uh my husband because he was here already

um well i used to because I live on the south side which is very hispanic and uh so you wake up to meringue and go to sleep to meringue and uh h recently i have a big Walgreens in front of my house and it was nice that I was the only white person there and now there are more white people.

oh wow i think the thing is us the people who have lived here for a long time are all sad because they are building big condos by the water so you can't see it anymore almost or you wont be I think its going to become really rich. i think there will be more rich people even I see it with the store because we are half secondhand and half new and we started to buy much more new things because there are more people who want nice stuff and also there is the biggest baby-boom since 1961 right now statistically so uh having a children's store is a very good idea especially secondhand because of the recession.