Bed-Stuy and Bushwick statistically are both around 80% black and latino as of the 2020 census, which is a drop from the 95%+ it was before 2000, but these neighborhoods are nowhere near park slope or the village. This guy (from mill basin, of all places) last night said he went to bed stuy for a party and it was 'basically just williamsburg' now and refused to listen to anyone telling him differently. It was almost an attack on his pride or something to not be completely fatalist in regards to gentrification. Just refused to listen to reason at all.

But his attitude isnt at all unique. I see it here a lot too. I've seen people argue that the bronx is now gentrified, as if a few luxury buildings built near the water suddenly means the entire bronx is the same as Soho. Its just a weird attitude I've noticed a lot from new yorkers. I think part of it is that a lot of modern new york culture is very nostalgic and fatalist towards the topic of gentrification 'ruining' the city, and anybody denying it or downplaying it at all is seen as automatically wrong at best, or an actual 'enemy' at worst.