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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 ...
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 ...
No one will be surprised to learn that the campaign to build a national movement against gentrification is being waged out of an office in Brooklyn, New York. For years, the borough’s name has ...
Welcome back to Camera Obscura, Curbed's series of photo essays by Nathan Kensinger. This week, Kensinger explores the locations of two new documentaries about development and gentrification in ...
The peaceful Saturday demonstration — organized by the Brooklyn Anti-Gentrification Network — was billed as the Brooklyn March Against Gentrification, Racism and Police Violence.
In Brooklyn, the same processes of disenfranchisement, gentrification and displacement simply resumed when the city reopened for business on July 1, 2021. By August 2021, the median asking rent in ...
It’s been portrayed as one of the city’s biggest mondern-day villains, but this month gentrification is a star. A Brooklyn arts house is taking on the sweeping wave of change that trans… ...
The Invention of Brownstone Brooklyn chronicles the invention of neighborhood names like Boerum Hill and the beginning of the white middle-class search for authenticity in the city.
How Brooklyn Has Changed Since 2004: In general, we’ve seen the extremely rapid gentrification of almost every neighborhood within a 20-minute subway ride of lower Manhattan. Brooklyn has gone from a ...