New York City is ranked as one of the majorly gentrified impacted areas within the Country. With Brooklyn serving as the top gentrified borough within the city.
📸: the root
Things have definitely changed within favor to the other man when a former one bedroom apartment currently has a $4,000 + price tag slapped on it for rent per month in an once predominantly black neighborhood.
The late Christoper Wallace also known as the Notorious BIG; former childhood apartment located at 226 St. James Place in Brooklyn now serves as a luxurious 972 square foot sanctuary. According to #TheRoot , the space has been fully refurbished with hardwood floors, dinning room sector, bike storage , garden and BBQ area. Which is a total 360 from the Brooklyn we all know the late rapper used to tell implicit stories paired with his experience about in the early late 80s-90s era.
Sources state the space was purchased in 2013 for $825,000 with the purchaser describing Biggies former apartment as a “ Historical gem.”
Noting that for a whopping $ 4,000 a month you can fully rent the space where the most influential rapper in the history of Hip Hop once lived.
