The great cities of the world _______on
change. The influx of new people, new
ideas, and new industries or what makes
cities cosmopolitan. If natives kind of
give a city a sense of ________it's
the new arrivals that give it its
passion.

this is "Streets" by Vice; a show where we
take one American city and try to tell
its story _____________________
____________. Today we're in New York
City exploring my own backyard: Brooklyn.

Obama: "it is good to be back in Brooklyn
how you doing?"

Brooklyn is where I work. It's where I live,
and it's _____________ my formative years,
but over the past two decades it's undergone massive
changes and it's still evolving. These
days it's known primarily as a spiritual
home of __________but this place
has a deeply fluid cultural history so
I'm traveling the length of the borough
along Brooklyn's Bedford Avenue to see
what it means to live in a city in
constant flux.

Bedford Avenue is the longest street in Brooklyn
it begins here in McCarren Park and runs all the
way to the Atlantic Ocean and in between
it _____________ neighborhoods that
are either resisting or embracing change
in their own unique ways.

Bedford Avenue cuts through Williamsburg.
For nearly a hundred years this was a neighborhood for industrial businesses and pockets of immigrant families, but by the 1990s
manufacturing in the area had started to
______ and a new kind of immigrant started moving in.
The north side of Williamsburg became a _________ area for artists
skaters and musicians seeking cheap rents and open spaces one subway stop away from the overcrowded and overpriced
East Village.

If artists are the shock troops of
gentrification this was the scene of
their first invasion.
One of the longest-running businesses that found
itself ___________ this cultural shift was KCDC a skate community which
_____________ shared a building with
Vice. KCDC was a destination for skaters
from all over the city they needed a
place big enough for an indoor skate
ramp and massive ragers today it's
smaller but still standing.

"KCDC opened in 2001 in Williamsburg."
What was it like when you first
opened up? _________________
we wanted to open a skateboard shop.
we wanted a place that was big enough that
we could put a place for people to skate
indoors. we wanted to have a
gallery and all this type of stuff.
it was kind of out of necessity that we
opened up in Williamsburg because it was
the only place we could really afford
that had a lot of space.

Manhattan wasn't an option so we
found a spot that we could afford that
was big enough. We threw a mini ramp in
there, started having parties, so it was
cool like being able to like ________
onto the sidewalk and the street no one
really cared we could have barbecues
-cool- you know now like even the idea of
having like an ___________ on the street
is like a million permits, you
know, like all this stuff, but that's
really something that can mark the side
of the time so I'd like to even think
about opening a business out here I was
like oh my god no one's gonna come..... but
look at it now, it's like totally
different so.

A lot has changed around
here, but skaters are still a big part of
Williamsburg. I went to meet a few at
McCarran skate park ________________
to see what they think of
gentrification in the neighborhood.

"this whole neighborhood was just like
wholesale warehouses; ________to come
over here was there was no bike lanes
there's none of that shit. This is
so different"

"Especially Williamsburg it ________ a
little bit more like Manhattan.
Four years ago, Bedford was not so much Dunkin
Donuts, Starbucks like all these condos
going up."

I mean the diversity is
definitely like in all the faces that
have moved to Williamsburg, but it's not
necessarily in like the _________
there's still folks who have been here
it made the neighborhood what it is and
___________ to come here so it's just
like it changed the demographic of how
you walk down Bedford on the weekend.
what's it like on the weekends of
Bedford? CHIC-show.

Right down the street
from McCarran skate park is one of north
Williamsburg's best and oldest ________.
I'm heading to the Turkey's Nest tavern, a
bar that opened about thirty five years
ago well before this neighborhood became
kind of a ________for gentrification, and
I'm gonna meet Steve Levin an old buddy
of mine who actually became the city
councilman for this district and we're
gonna talk about how a neighborhood can
kind of go from a working-class place to
a hipster Haven.

this is one of the few bars left in Williamsburg
_________________ for decades not years.
beers were traditionally served in styrofoam cups
and no one under 23 is allowed in.

what seems so nice about this
is that like we used to sort of __________
this neighborhood together now
_____________-- yeah before you were a
councilman- before I was councilman yes yeah
this neighborhood is a lot different
from what it was before, so I guess my
question is like: how did that happen?

well, it certainly accelerated in 2005
when they re-zoned the waterfront. We
went from like no density ______ to
having like mega density, like there was
no middle ground. (It) didn't go from like
industrial to like mid-range to.. high
it was just like from zero to 60

So, what does that mean? What's the problem with
density?
like it seems like maybe is a
good idea to have a bunch of people
living by the water right what it did is,
it had this phenomenon known as
secondary displacement __________
on the rents kind of emanating outward
what's the fallout been? - like what do
what do your constituents say to you
about (it) ? -you know- the rising rents the condos
going up to sort of changing space of
these neighborhoods that you represent?

-it's a constant ________for people.

This phenomenon of secondary displacement is
probably most visible today in
Bedford-Stuyvesant.

The median price for
a home has gone up from about________ dollars to seven hundred
and seventy five thousand dollars in
just 15 years.

Bed-Stuy was the essence
of urban black America despite the
perception of it as a ghetto it Bed-Stuy
was a heavily black middle-class
community in bed-stuy in the ______ there
was a lot of job discrimination a good
number perhaps the majority of the
businesses would have been owned by by
whites often were not employing blacks
Bed-Stuy became a place kind of a
desolation I mean there was gang warfare
in in Bedford Stuyvesant and I know kids
who were killed in gang wars.