He talks in the format of campaigning, he never directly answers the questions. He wants to create a council?!!?! thats why he was voted in for! He utilized the fact that he looks/talks like the people in his community to then turn on them. What sense does that make that in order to enhance your community you have to rezone. You have to put in new development where an acute number is for "affordable" housing. Why must 10 new apartments be built and only 1 is for a the poor. Through out the whole interview he says he's negotiating, but just like the protesters who came after the rezoning was affirmed isnt it useless when you already agreed to the rezoning?
Ebro you know whats gonna happen....these big wig construction companies and contractors that are not the type of people we are....are going to benefit from all this building that they plan to do. We never benefit from it, or get job opportunities from it. Smh
Ken Sniffey JR Whenever you get info on these unions hiring, let people know. The Iron workers just had some openings. Maybe electrical will open back, etc.
He is a fraud, he just wants to get his big check, how tf is he a transportation commissioner of nyc now, ive noticed his intentions since he was my HS teacher lol
Ydanis should step down he just admitted to decisions already being made and leaving the community out of the loop. He is another bought representative who has been swayed by special interest groups.
Watch Me He's talking about the Inwood area. 215st between 10th ave and 9th ave Sanitation building take up the whole block. They have big plans in that area, it's a wrap might as well move to The Bronx
This is happening in ALL of NYC ... I’m from the South Bronx and you better believe it’s here. I am not opposed to gentrification (millennial Blacks & Hispanics are part of gentrification because we are graduating from college or vocational training all time high rates leading to our incomes affecting the neighborhood) but, I do feel that more has to be done for the working class, elderly and New York natives. New York transplants also should respect the culture that is already there!
The councilman n local politicians are the 1st to get “campaign contributions” from the developers. Inwood is too big an area of Manhattan to not be on the gentrification train.
And I don’t think Hispanics in the Inwood and Washington heights aren’t as displaceable like blacks in Brooklyn. You can’t remove commerce too easily. AND YOULL HAVE A HARD TIME MOVING DOPE MONEY.
The area is less valuabe. Bedstuy, Crown Heights, Fort Greene, Harlem, etc is prime real estate. The only reason it was devalued is because Black people live in those areas.
in the grand sceme of things, yes. Closer to Lower and Midtown than the suburbs. Brooklyn areas like Williamsburg, Bedstuy, Fort Greene, etc is right across the East River from Lower Manhattan so it's more prime hence why they got gentrified faster. Still millions of Black and Latinos but the numbers is getting lower and lower. Like the guy in this video said, Harlem isn't Black Majority anymore, though it's Minority Majority Black(for now).
Ydanis Rodriguez is in a tough spot, I wish him the best, folks also need to try to better they’re situation through training, trade schools, college, military whatever brings you out of your situation, rent control shouldn’t be a life long situation that breeds complacency. I love my city and all my people. We need to put ourselves in a position to win by not becoming stagnant. Let’s get it!
When Ydonis says *Our People* , he is speaking solely about Dominicans 10:56 🤦🏻♂️ This guy has been chauvinistic since prepandemic era. Especially when he opened up the segments comparing the sudden change in demographics of Washington Heights vs Harlem.
He is a lying cheat, I wish my generation in the heights would wake up and smell the coffee. Washington Heights is already unaffordable, as a professional 20 something who on paper makes “good money” , a one bedroom apartment would be about half my monthly income. He’s talking about stabilized apartments but for how long until they move to market rate prices and what about the tax breaks that those companies get and then don’t hire our people. Get outta her Ydanis.
I saw what happened to Harlem. There are buildings now. When I was growing up the walls of allot of building were bashed in with crack heads getting high.
Many developers and other businesses simply put a woman or other minority in a minor ownership position so they can get around the rule of having a minority company considered. This guy makes me sick. Selling out the community. Learn from Harlem, or find somewhere to live down south or PA when you're forced out of your homes.
Nice, clean and hard working people will move in and it’ll make the neighborhood more pleasant, cleaner, and safer. They’ll show respect to the neighborhood by investing in infrastructure, economy and businesses. Everyone will benefit from this even the poor.
Millions for lawyers to defend tenants? Only lawyers will get rich on the back of those tenants fighting issues with their landlord. You need to invite Rep. Adriano Espaillat to get his view. Ydanis Rodriguez is his side kick and Espaillat opposes rezoning of Inwood. Notice how Ydanis does not speak with specifics about his plan. Always speak in general term like any politician.
Y’all wanted bars, lounges and bars? There you have it. The Heights is a ghost town. Walk from 170th Street Broadway til 193rd and St. Nicholas. All you see is Barber Shops, and restaurants. It’s disgraceful. I was forced to move to The South in 2010 because I saw the painting on the wall.
...all of this isnt going to stop them from throwing out the dominisprats. They just gonna have to find some po dunk area to migrate to now. Dont get maaaad. No more Nueva yor for u. bye.
They duck these interviews when there's controversy. Deblasio was all over this show when things were comfortable. Nixon the same. No one comes back when they mess up. At least this guy showed up to embellish the truth lol
Whats wrong with gentrification? Inwood upper manhattan area is beautiful Construction companies want to build new buildings to attract young professionals I dont see a problem Oh wait, its racist because the demographics there are dominicans? Dominicans who pay less than $500 rent Are on public assistance such as medicaid and food stamps Send a box filled with food purchased from food stamps to D.R. Every other week Dont have tax paying jobs meaning they usually work off the books... illegal narcotics most of the time Form gangs like the trinitarios ...RIP junior And got a land rover parked outside See the problem is other working dominicans with professions and $60k plus jobs cant afford to even pay their rent let alone a land rover And the thing is they want a land rover So when they see these other dominicans taking advantage of the system they complain to guys like ydanis rodriguez Then comes “gentrification” How about they all educate themselves Get high paying income jobs And buy those old buildings to avoid gentrification
Mr smith Yet you're the type bitching about too many jobs leaving the U.S. What's wrong with that? If someone is willing to do the job for less, why shouldn't elected officials and corporations sell out the working man here in the U.S? Why "real Americans" don't have to shut up about coal, etc and get their dumbass educated? Tell me how Gentrification benefited African Americans(who are not immigrants) beside the Black people who own Brownstones(only a benefit when sold, or rent to Gentrifier which mean Black person can no longer rent). *How do the children of Sharecroppers buy these buildings when thy are competing against Millionaires and Billionaires?*
Mr smith the problem with gentrification is white ppl dont spend money in our community, our local business and invest in our schools and communities... they come in shope else where... then local home owned businesses get closed down, a whole foods or 7 eleven come into our communities with bs minimum wage which dont even allow us the minority to even afford rent cause gentrification raises our rent... and the more gentrification the less white folks will invest in our culture and complain bout noise from bars and restaurants and try to shut down those businesses... thats the real issue with gentrification
This is like saying "how do i beat the warriors when they are jacking up 3s from half court" you dont you simply lose the game. These communities have had more than enough time to figure out how they could have locked down the area and kept it theirs forever the amount of money legal and illegal that has gone through these communities is more than 90% of the entire planet.
Mr smith 😂😂😂 A bit harsh on your reply sir but I hear you somewhat. My question for you is, Why bring in gentrification when you can get the neighborhood to come together? I guess the whole idea is to destroy and rebuild. still when you rebuild and the neighborhood isn't what it was it's a punch to the gut thus systematic oppression continues cause the neighborhood perhaps didnt know better. It's sad really.
Mr smith and I live in the BX by the way. Ydanis mentioned making his community middle class which is fair but as you mentioned, as a person a part of the community, many lack education, skills ,priorities,work ethic or a mixture of the four. So, why not educate and train for people to get careers and not jobs then when the gentrification happens, people can stay. 🤷🏿♂️
One of the first thing that happens before full gentrification is building a cultural center. That usually serves a museum for the past residents.
He talks in the format of campaigning, he never directly answers the questions. He wants to create a council?!!?! thats why he was voted in for! He utilized the fact that he looks/talks like the people in his community to then turn on them. What sense does that make that in order to enhance your community you have to rezone. You have to put in new development where an acute number is for "affordable" housing. Why must 10 new apartments be built and only 1 is for a the poor. Through out the whole interview he says he's negotiating, but just like the protesters who came after the rezoning was affirmed isnt it useless when you already agreed to the rezoning?
And then Dominicans will be priced out to the bronx while Hayley and Billy from Ohio take up the same rezoned spots for $2500 for a 1 bedroom apt.
Maybe his intentions were good at the beginning but this guys looks corrupt.
Ebro you know whats gonna happen....these big wig construction companies and contractors that are not the type of people we are....are going to benefit from all this building that they plan to do. We never benefit from it, or get job opportunities from it. Smh
Ken Sniffey JR .....As nasty as it may seem to say I have to say it.....Destroy them cockroaches.....&give me us our muthafluckin STAT....STAR
Ken Sniffey JR Whenever you get info on these unions hiring, let people know. The Iron workers just had some openings. Maybe electrical will open back, etc.
@@godofthisshit that is a great idea but even the union hiring is BS. It's a lottery(luck) or u have to know someone..
People can keep up with everything else, but they can't keep up with local politics that affects their lives? Ebro stop making excuses.
Ebro acting like this guy is a president or something. Realistically there's only so much he can do.
He is a fraud, he just wants to get his big check, how tf is he a transportation commissioner of nyc now, ive noticed his intentions since he was my HS teacher lol
Ydanis should step down he just admitted to decisions already being made and leaving the community out of the loop. He is another bought representative who has been swayed by special interest groups.
ebro is on his heels!!!!
Education system is so bad here that the ppl who come here get the good jobs cause of better education in other states, what about us?
it's not 9th ave it's 10th ave.......... We smell a liar. Ydanis doesn't know washington heights.
Watch Me He's talking about the Inwood area. 215st between 10th ave and 9th ave Sanitation building take up the whole block. They have big plans in that area, it's a wrap might as well move to The Bronx
And its INWOOD HEIGHTS!
Great interview by the way
This is happening in ALL of NYC ... I’m from the South Bronx and you better believe it’s here. I am not opposed to gentrification (millennial Blacks & Hispanics are part of gentrification because we are graduating from college or vocational training all time high rates leading to our incomes affecting the neighborhood) but, I do feel that more has to be done for the working class, elderly and New York natives. New York transplants also should respect the culture that is already there!
I appreciate this interview. Good job sir.
i wana believe in this guy but he dodging most of the questions lol
comptonny718 werd lol
The councilman n local politicians are the 1st to get “campaign contributions” from the developers. Inwood is too big an area of Manhattan to not be on the gentrification train.
este ladronaso buen bagamundo, this dude is a fraud
And I don’t think Hispanics in the Inwood and Washington heights aren’t as displaceable like blacks in Brooklyn. You can’t remove commerce too easily. AND YOULL HAVE A HARD TIME MOVING DOPE MONEY.
The area is less valuabe. Bedstuy, Crown Heights, Fort Greene, Harlem, etc is prime real estate. The only reason it was devalued is because Black people live in those areas.
godofthisshit
How are WASHINGTON Heights and Inwood less valuable?
Further away from Downtown Manhattan, less Brownstones, more hilly, etc.
godofthisshit
What? Both areas are no more 20 minutes from downtown. That’s prime real estate.
in the grand sceme of things, yes. Closer to Lower and Midtown than the suburbs. Brooklyn areas like Williamsburg, Bedstuy, Fort Greene, etc is right across the East River from Lower Manhattan so it's more prime hence why they got gentrified faster. Still millions of Black and Latinos but the numbers is getting lower and lower. Like the guy in this video said, Harlem isn't Black Majority anymore, though it's Minority Majority Black(for now).
They planned this probably 50 yrs ago
10:25 look how nervous he gets when answering the question
Ydanis Rodriguez is in a tough spot, I wish him the best, folks also need to try to better they’re situation through training, trade schools, college, military whatever brings you out of your situation, rent control shouldn’t be a life long situation that breeds complacency. I love my city and all my people. We need to put ourselves in a position to win by not becoming stagnant. Let’s get it!
When Ydonis says *Our People* , he is speaking solely about Dominicans 10:56
🤦🏻♂️ This guy has been chauvinistic since prepandemic era. Especially when he opened up the segments comparing the sudden change in demographics of Washington Heights vs Harlem.
He is a lying cheat, I wish my generation in the heights would wake up and smell the coffee. Washington Heights is already unaffordable, as a professional 20 something who on paper makes “good money” , a one bedroom apartment would be about half my monthly income. He’s talking about stabilized apartments but for how long until they move to market rate prices and what about the tax breaks that those companies get and then don’t hire our people. Get outta her Ydanis.
He's a fraud
I definitely don’t trust one word this man be saying he be at meetings with Ruben Diaz another liar for the community
Rip nyc
ThaRealERAQ facts
Not just NYC. All major cities so get ready.
I saw what happened to Harlem. There are buildings now. When I was growing up the walls of allot of building were bashed in with crack heads getting high.
Many developers and other businesses simply put a woman or other minority in a minor ownership position so they can get around the rule of having a minority company considered. This guy makes me sick. Selling out the community. Learn from Harlem, or find somewhere to live down south or PA when you're forced out of your homes.
Now as head of DOT he wants more speed cameras for $$$
Ebro !!!! Good looking man we need to start holding these fucks accountable for the gentrification going on...
great inyerview....holding his feet to the fire. its sad "we" are being pushed out in every freakin borough
Nice, clean and hard working people will move in and it’ll make the neighborhood more pleasant, cleaner, and safer. They’ll show respect to the neighborhood by investing in infrastructure, economy and businesses. Everyone will benefit from this even the poor.
You guys should have known opening up those trendy restaurants in Dyckman would cost a heavy price.
How long has he been in America because his English should not be that horrible. He's truly hard to listen to and understand
The_Chocolate1 #GoHawks Nah plenty of native speakers have worse diction and grammar.
Affordable housing isn't the answer,in fact it will make things worse.
Millions for lawyers to defend tenants? Only lawyers will get rich on the back of those tenants fighting issues with their landlord. You need to invite Rep. Adriano Espaillat to get his view. Ydanis Rodriguez is his side kick and Espaillat opposes rezoning of Inwood.
Notice how Ydanis does not speak with specifics about his plan. Always speak in general term like any politician.
Y’all wanted bars, lounges and bars? There you have it. The Heights is a ghost town. Walk from 170th Street Broadway til 193rd and St. Nicholas. All you see is Barber Shops, and restaurants. It’s disgraceful. I was forced to move to The South in 2010 because I saw the painting on the wall.
Action Bronaon aint gonna stand for this
He mentions Henry Kissinger, a murderer.
Closing the garage...what the fluck....mmtalkin bout
Couldn’t understand a word he says.
...all of this isnt going to stop them from throwing out the dominisprats.
They just gonna have to find some po dunk area to migrate to now. Dont get maaaad.
No more Nueva yor for u. bye.
Dumb excuse from ebro!! Everyone who wants changes in their community Just get involved in your community and stop making excuses !!
Ebro went in on this politician
Wonder if he’ll ever talk to a white politician this way 🤔
Mr smith Have not seen him do it to a white candidate yet.
They duck these interviews when there's controversy. Deblasio was all over this show when things were comfortable. Nixon the same. No one comes back when they mess up. At least this guy showed up to embellish the truth lol
Acura CL3.0 White blacktentted....zoooom nigga...
Brenda Bail WHAT?
PLEASE STOP with the horn and the constant DJ Khalid thing...it is so disruptive and unnecessary !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Plenty of Yandis videos
Whats wrong with gentrification?
Inwood upper manhattan area is beautiful
Construction companies want to build new buildings to attract young professionals
I dont see a problem
Oh wait, its racist because the demographics there are dominicans?
Dominicans who pay less than $500 rent
Are on public assistance such as medicaid and food stamps
Send a box filled with food purchased from food stamps to D.R. Every other week
Dont have tax paying jobs meaning they usually work off the books... illegal narcotics most of the time
Form gangs like the trinitarios ...RIP junior
And got a land rover parked outside
See the problem is other working dominicans with professions and $60k plus jobs cant afford to even pay their rent let alone a land rover
And the thing is they want a land rover
So when they see these other dominicans taking advantage of the system they complain to guys like ydanis rodriguez
Then comes “gentrification”
How about they all educate themselves
Get high paying income jobs
And buy those old buildings to avoid gentrification
Mr smith Yet you're the type bitching about too many jobs leaving the U.S. What's wrong with that? If someone is willing to do the job for less, why shouldn't elected officials and corporations sell out the working man here in the U.S? Why "real Americans" don't have to shut up about coal, etc and get their dumbass educated?
Tell me how Gentrification benefited African Americans(who are not immigrants) beside the Black people who own Brownstones(only a benefit when sold, or rent to Gentrifier which mean Black person can no longer rent). *How do the children of Sharecroppers buy these buildings when thy are competing against Millionaires and Billionaires?*
Mr smith the problem with gentrification is white ppl dont spend money in our community, our local business and invest in our schools and communities... they come in shope else where... then local home owned businesses get closed down, a whole foods or 7 eleven come into our communities with bs minimum wage which dont even allow us the minority to even afford rent cause gentrification raises our rent... and the more gentrification the less white folks will invest in our culture and complain bout noise from bars and restaurants and try to shut down those businesses... thats the real issue with gentrification
This is like saying "how do i beat the warriors when they are jacking up 3s from half court" you dont you simply lose the game. These communities have had more than enough time to figure out how they could have locked down the area and kept it theirs forever the amount of money legal and illegal that has gone through these communities is more than 90% of the entire planet.
Mr smith 😂😂😂 A bit harsh on your reply sir but I hear you somewhat. My question for you is, Why bring in gentrification when you can get the neighborhood to come together?
I guess the whole idea is to destroy and rebuild. still when you rebuild and the neighborhood isn't what it was it's a punch to the gut thus systematic oppression continues cause the neighborhood perhaps didnt know better. It's sad really.
Mr smith and I live in the BX by the way.
Ydanis mentioned making his community middle class which is fair but as you mentioned, as a person a part of the community, many lack education, skills ,priorities,work ethic or a mixture of the four.
So, why not educate and train for people to get careers and not jobs then when the gentrification happens, people can stay. 🤷🏿♂️