With two months until Election Day, NY1 spent time with voters in Williamsburg, Brooklyn, to hear the neighborhood issues concerning residents ahead of November.

Many voters mentioned the impact of gentrification in Williamsburg and soaring rents for New Yorkers and businesses alike.

The Caribbean Social Club on Grand Street has kept its doors open, despite a sweeping change in the surrounding neighborhood.

Sylvia Rosado’s mother opened the quaint club 51 years ago.

“It’s beautiful to know that she’s actually still here and has beat gentrification to its finest,” Rosado said.

“Williamsburg, in some ways, was the prototype of gentrification,” John Jay College Sociology Lecturer Sara Martucci said.

Martucci has documented how and why gentrification transformed Williamsburg, “precisely

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