Record numbers of Blacks have moved out of Chicago and LA as well. I am still scratching my head how anyone can afford to live in NYC.
I have a friend who got 200k a year job in Manhattan. His wife (no kids) can easily find a 70k or more job there, master's degree. They are from Florida originally.
He said he looked at rent prices and after calculating take home pay had to rent in New Jersey if he wanted to have any decent amount left to save and/or invest.
After 6 months they are looking at jobs in other states.
Blacks didn't survive as community in NYC because we are one of the only communities that don't act as a group. Italians in Bensonhurst, Bay Ridge, who own homes pass them down to their kids or to other Italians. The Hasidic jews in Williamsburg, Brooklyn who own homes will either pass it down to their kids or only sell to other Hasidic jews. Not even other non Hasidic jews can buy in.
Chinatown NYC, has a community organization that will buy the property there if you want to sell and don't have kids and to keep it in Chinese owned hands.
Black people who own homes in NYC will openly and willingly sell to gentrifiers. Even Latinos look out for each other more. Blacks leaving NYC and not having a base there is our own fault as a community. I can't remember the politicians name but a black politican in Harlem a while back, many years ago, openly said he wanted Harlem to look demographically different.
