Brooklyn is known as the “borough of churches,” but it is gaining a reputation as a borough of books. Steeped in literary history, it is home to some of the greatest writers and characters in ...

“Gentrification Is Inevitable And Other Lies,” by feminist and urbanist scholar Leslie Kern. This is your first of three free stories this month. Become a free or sustaining member to read unlimited ...

There’s more to contemporary Brooklyn than meets the eye, argues author and Brooklynite Kay Hymowitz in her new book The New Brooklyn. The book explores the transformation of the borough by ...

300 Nassau Avenue in Brooklyn’s Greenpoint in 2016, boarded up after a vandal smashed plumbing and electric equipment in the basement. The landlord later admitted in court to trying to force ...

Young people in cities and neighborhoods across the country are facing the consequences of gentrification as they struggle to maintain their local culture while their families are being priced out of ...

Author Chrystal D. Giles’ debut middle-grade book, “Take Back the Block,” is full of engaging and entertaining characters, compelling story lines and a vivid setting. It is also the first middle-grade ...

Sarah Schulman has always had to fight for her ideas. Sometimes this meant literally taking to the streets during her years working with the AIDS Coalition To Unleash Power (ACT UP) in the late ’80s ...

East Palo Alto City Council member and poet Antonio de Jesús López, author of the new poetry book, “Gentefication.” Courtesy Arianna Cunha. On a recent morning in front of Menlo Park’s Cafe Zoë, East ...

Over the past few weeks, I’ve been talking nonstop. When I’m not waxing poetic in this newsletter, I’ve been deep in the promotion cycle for my forthcoming novel, Olga Dies Dreaming, which publishes ...

University of Chicago Press, 320 pp. Human beings, who exist at the scale of the neighborhood, have trouble understanding the full scope of urbanized America. The United States contains 107 ...

I find “displacement” to be a much more useful term for describing the negative side of gentrification. Nonetheless, I don’t think gentrification has lost its meaning or should be jettisoned from the ...