Is it possible to ‘counteract gentrification’ while ‘living in a luxury building in Brooklyn’?
Naming your purebred Golden Doodle Rosa Parks is in fact offensive and tone deaf and in no way makes you…
Tag: gentrification
Meet your neighbors and be an active community member at Flatbush Fest this weekend
Leave your apartment this weekend and enjoy the warmth of your neighborhood beneath the looming threat of gentrification at Flatbush…
‘Making Rent in Bed-Stuy’ film series to feature neighborhood’s most iconic films
The Lower East Side's Metrograph is hosting a Bed-Stuy themed film series in honor of the release of a new…
Real estate study tells recent college grads Bed-Stuy best neighborhood to move to
Other suggested neighborhoods for recent college graduates included Crown Heights, Washington Heights and Bushwick.
What is Park Slope but a petri dish of neo-fuedalism, artists ask in absurdist music video
How directly linked are juice bars and white guilt? A new video short, 'Park Slope', indirectly asks this question through…
Report: Everyone’s leaving Brooklyn but transplants, their babies, and immigrants
New data shows that Brooklyn is seeing population growth exclusively due to a consistent influx of immigrants and a high…
Is Brooklyn Flea ‘apartheid’ or are Williamsburg residents NIMBY trash?
If you were a broker trying to rent an apartment in Williamsburg to a recent New York transplant, how would…
‘Girls’ didn’t ruin Brooklyn, you did
According to pop culture lore, Brooklyn was founded by Miranda Hobbes of the Manhattan Hobbes, when she bravely planted a…
Gird your loins, Sunset Parkers: Manhattan and the Garment Industry are coming for the neighborhood
"Sunset Park, Brooklyn: Not Quite Trendy," the New York Times wrote last January of the sprawling neighborhood that fills the…
A new map tracks NYC gentrification real-time
Gentrification is New York's white whale, and no amount of low-stakes ukulele songs about the issue are going to rein…