Nothing personal taken. My girlfriend was born in Staten Island, and her mom's from Brooklyn. So I feel like she isn't as bad as some of the others .

Believe it or not, I don't like gentrification, either. When I moved to NYC, I didn't even realize it was an issue. You know I lived in the EV. It's a joke now. People move their because they think it's grungy or something, but they're just being stupid. The EV is as safe as any neighborhood out there. The mystique is gone. It's all NYU kids and yuppies. I don't really understand the appeal of paying 1500 a month to live with three other people in a hundred year old building.