@drivenbyboredom

I lived in the same Brooklyn apartment for 18 years and as an early gentrifier to the neighborhood I tried to go out of my way to be invisible. I have parties, I didn't bother anyone, I didn't take many photos within the five block radius of my apartment. I didn't really talk to anyone because my spanish sucks and I could sort of see the way people looked at me, especially when I was in my 20s. Despite technically being Williamsburg, my little pocket somehow seemed walled off from the gentrification of the surrounding neighborhoods. About ten years in to me living there, things started to change. A few large apartment buildings opened up on the outskirts of the neighborhood and then the huge hole where all the stray cats lived across from my building finally became apartments. Around 2015 my apartment building was purchased by Robert Durst to hide his money from the civil lawsuits brought by his murder victims. 1/2

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