Given the city's more nuanced real estate market, NY magazine covers "degentrification," focusing mostly on Red Hook. Adam Sternbergh chronicles the neighborhood's ups and downs - for pre-gentrifiers, ...
Yesterday, we have the woman who felt 'stranded' at Schaefer Landing in her $1M condo. Of course, we've also had the notorious machete attack. And now this news in today's Post: "A new offshoot of the ...
Activists take swings at a piñata in the shape of a Google bus May 5 at the 16th and Mission BART plaza in 2013. Housing rights activists organized an "anti-gentrification block party." Sign up below ...
The chain of events that led to the dropping of the degentrification bomb on Red Hook can be traced back to the closing days of spring and early days of summer: July 10, 2007. Red Hook resident Chris ...
As nationwide chains gobbled up retail space across the country, they did so at the expense of smaller mom-and-pop shops. But now, as the brick-and-mortar chains die a slow and painful death, small ...
Chinatown Art Brigade's exhibition is open through March 25. (photo Elaine Velie/Hyperallergic) Facing City Hall in Downtown Manhattan, a new exhibition by the Chinatown Art Brigade (CAB) collective ...
The New York Times helps everyone start the day off right with a depressing look at Eagle Rock as the poster town for degentrification. As the recession kills off little hipster businesses like That ...
On the Upper West Side, the recession has meant dozens of vacant storefronts, with the half-empty stretch of Amsterdam Avenue between 78th and 79th streets serving as one poster child. One local is ...
Not every failed condo development in Crown Heights can become luxury housing for the homeless. Nope, some don't even make it that far, like the seven-story, 33-unit 393 Lefferts Avenue on the ...
What the hell is happening in Red Hook? Ivy Pochoda remembers having that thought, and she remembers she wasn’t alone. It was about a year ago, Brooklyn was booming, a Fairway grocery store had just ...
As nationwide chains gobbled up retail space across the country, they did so at the expense of smaller mom-and-pop shops. But now, as the brick-and-mortar chains die a slow and painful death, small ...