"...The Yuppification of Brooklyn has gone too far..."
Brooklyn still has plenty of good music clubs, restaurants, and interesting things to see and do that has a certain cool grittiness to it. At the same time, I wouldn't view continued criminality on the part of black residents as a "good thing" designed to slow yuppification and exclude folks from other parts of the country.
This does seem like a bizarre social experiment on the part of the uber-liberal parents at the expense of their young kids.
Perhaps the black children could learn acceptable behavior just as we would expect proper behavior on the part of white youngsters if the situation was reversed.
~ Blue Jays ~
(Like I should talk, being that I live as a transplanted New Yorker in a yuppie nabe in Seattle). ;-)