For the last several weeks, WNYC and The Nation’s There Goes the Neighborhood podcast has explored the “destabilizing phenomenon” of gentrification in Brooklyn through the experiences of current ...
BROOKLYN, N.Y. (PIX11) — Rachel Murray, a lifelong Brooklyn resident living between Downtown Brooklyn and DUMBO, is feeling the impact of gentrification firsthand. “I think it’s unfair,” she says, ...
In an article titled Why Can’t the Bronx Be More Like Brooklyn? in the Sunday Magazine, Adam Davidson tries to get at what made Brooklyn so ripe for gentrification of the last couple of decades.
Author and practicing psychoanalyst Jeremiah Moss maintains a blog called “Jeremiah’s Vanishing New York” where he chronicles the shuttering of popular small businesses in rapidly gentrifying areas of ...
NEW YORK — “I just got off the train coming here, and hadn’t seen it before,” director Patricia McGregor said, her voice rising with incredulity. “I was like: There’s an Apple store?” McGregor was ...
More than 100 activists and artists affiliated with community groups from throughout the city gathered at the Brooklyn Museum this morning to protest its hosting of the 2015 Brooklyn Real Estate ...
I got to thinking about gentrification, of all things, because of an unusual story for these days that appeared in Friday’s New York Times. It was about a fellow named Dennis Farr who was railing ...
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 ...
NEW YORK (RNS) -- On Sunday mornings in Brooklyn, nicknamed the borough of churches, the muffled sounds of choir singers, hand‑claps and Hammond organs can be heard from the sidewalks. The borough ...
The desire for fresh almond croissants and artisanal pizza is what’s driving Brooklyn gentrification, the Brooklyn Paper claims. Citing places like Roberta’s, the Farm on Adderley, and K-Dog and ...
The feature on the new generation of Brooklyn food artisans in the New York Times food section was an interesting roundup of small producers/businesses like Marlow & Daughters butcher shop, Cut ...