This week New York Magazine takes a view on gentrification that is, if not contrarian, at least a little controversial. (The article follows a similar one in the semi-annual magazine n+1). As will ...

Loren Goldner goes on to say..... Jeremiah Moss came as a young man to New York City in 1993, in search of the Bohemia of which he had dreamed, growing up in a small, sleepy town in New England.

Gentrification is being blamed for New York City’s rat problem, which has spiked almost 38% in the last few years. Rat sightings reported to the city have risen from 12,617 in 2014 to 17,353 in 2018, ...

The New York City Council recently adopted rezoning plans for the East New York neighborhood in Brooklyn. A New York Times’ editorial has characterized the legislative action as “saving a New York ...

Surrounded by supporters in Foley Square last month, New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio celebrated the passage of a potentially groundbreaking zoning change that requires larger residential projects ...

Local non-profit Arts East New York is hosting a panel on gentrification in East New York and negative portrayals of African Americans in mainstream media this Friday, as part of a celebration of ...

New York City, once heralded as the “city of dreams,” where grit alone was enough to make it, is now a place like any other major American city, increasingly made from steel and glass — and also ...

NEW YORK — Late Friday afternoon, on the roofs of the four low-rise, brick buildings that sit at the intersection of Utica Avenue and Montgomery Street in the Crown Heights neighborhood of Brooklyn, ...

Mayor Eric Adams visits Seneca Village at Central Park as a Juneteenth celebration is held in New York City. Tayfun Coskun/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images Mayor Eric Adams was right to honor the ...

It's hypocrisy to speak of equity and advocacy yet remain silent about the changes within that privilege affluent communities ...

Last weekend, a friend of mine was accosted on 125th Street in Harlem. In broad daylight, about five black men wearing Black Panther-like uniforms surrounded him and demanded to know why he – a white ...

Spring of 2020 was not a good time for most people in New York City: The streets were deserted, sirens dominated the soundscape, and refrigerated trailer trucks could be seen parked outside of ...