3 | This Can't Be The End of This (I'm Having Too Much Fun)

How did you spend your summer vacation? We spent ours in a park in Crown Heights. It’s hard to talk about Crown Heights without talking about how it’s changed in recent years— rising rents, shifting demographics, new businesses built on top of old wounds. But reducing a neighborhood to it's own displacement erases the people who've been there all along, who've built it up, and who often still call it home. We celebrated the end of summer by walking around Crown Heights and talking to people. We met two female entrepreneurs, with very different business models. We followed a group of skaters around in a circle, down a ramp and into their past. And along the way we met a handful of people who were spending the final days of summer hanging out in Brower Park, Brooklyn, USA. ••• Brooklyn, USA is produced and edited by me, Sachar Mathias, and Emily Boghossian.  If you like what you hear, think we got something wrong or just want to get in touch, you can leave us a comment, tweet us @ BRICradio or leave a message at (347) 504-0801.  Thanks to producer Afi Yellow-Duke for walking us around the park today, and introducing us to some of the coolest people in Crown Heights. Thanks to journalist Sriyanka Ray for the nutcrackers, the blades, the bikes and the boards. Thanks to Otis Gray and the Hungry Podcast for telling us both sides of the Summerhill story. You can hear more of the Hungry Podcast by visiting www.hungryradio.org or by tweeting @ HungryPodcast. And thanks to Alanna, Phyllis, Tisha, Ronnie, Regina, Jermaine, and Theodore for taking the time to talk to us. This episode featured music from the Blue Dot Sessions and the Cueniverse and de Wolfe music libraries. For more information on this and all BRIC Radio podcasts, visit ww.bricartsmedia.org/radio.

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