Quiz: Are you part of the problem?
Whether you're new to town or you've been around for a bit, you know the one local issue that keeps…
Tag: gentrification
We’re not the face of gentrification! Two performers explain why they took a gig helping sell condos
Jennifer Harder is a performer, actor and musician who's been in a rotating stream of projects that would fall under the…
Brooklyn realtors threw a ‘steampunk vaudeville’ party to entice new condo buyers
There is nothing inherently wrong with steampunk on its face, other than how ridiculously loud a crowd of steampunks can get…
‘Kimmy Schmidt’ is great at mocking NYC’s hyper gentrification
Among many bits of DNA that Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt shares with 30 Rock, its spiritual predecessor, is a to-the-roots feeling of…
Are real estate developers the ‘Trump fans’ of Brooklyn?
WNYC's new podcast about Brooklyn gentrification is only two episodes in but here's a trend you can expect to continue for…
7 foolproof ways to keep luxury developers out of your neighborhood
New York City is a fickle beast — one day you’re living in your cheap apartment in a residential, under-the-radar neighborhood…
New WNYC podcast looks at the ‘violent economic process’ behind Brooklyn’s gentrification
Nobody likes to admit they're a gentrifier, but Kai Wright was definitely ahead of the recent wave of Bed-Stuy gentrification. The Indiana native…
Here’s $60 ‘Gentrification in progress’ tape
Gentrification is pretty much everywhere you look these days in Brooklyn, New York City and really any urban area, but…
Two ways of looking at a South Bronx gentrification party
South Bronx, South South Bronx...is the new Brooklyn, in the sense that rapacious waterfront development is set to make some…
Top 10: The best cheap things to do in Brooklyn this week, fancy footwear edition
1. Launch some paperbacks at the Franklin Park Reading Series, this month featuring Will Chancellor, Megan Mayhew Bergman, Karolina Waclawiak, J. Robert Lennon, and…