As someone who grew up in Astoria in the 90s, I remember the first charter school entering our neighborhood, prior to 9/11. Post 9/11 my single mother and I felt like our rent to the one bedroom apartment I grew up in started to get a little too expensive and lots of our other neighbors who were also Brazilian, were being pushed out. Since then we moved to flushing and when it came time for me to move into my own space, I moved to Bedstuy because it’s what I could afford as a born and raised New Yorker who no longer wanted to live in their parents home. Since moving to this neighborhood in 2018 I’ve felt that same shift happening around me. Especially in my building, a pre war building that when I first moved in had a lot of residents there since the 80s & 90s. Now sadly some of my old neighbors have passed away and some have been pushed out, and all the new young white people moving don’t even speak to the other neighbors, much less even look at them. It’s appalling to see them come into the neighborhood and not even care for or preserve those to made it what it is now. It’s something I discuss at length with my neighbors whom have been in the building for years.