Facing rent hike, plain old deli relabels everything ‘artisanal’
I don't know about you, but every time someone brings up Brooklyn, specifically BoCoCa (Boerum Hill, Cobble Hill, Carrol Gardens)…
Tag: gentrification
Forest City Ratner announces plans to replace You with condos
Brooklyn's building boom claimed another victim today, with this morning's news that Forest City Ratner revealed plans to tear You…
House flippers complaining Bed-Stuy’s too expensive
It's the same story we've read so many times before in New York City. A neighborhood finds itself being pitched…
Even Hillary Clinton is having trouble with this fakakte Brooklyn real estate market
If there's one thing we can all agree on, it's that the Brooklyn and greater New York City real estate…
Gentrification gets its own opera tonight and Friday at BRIC
Hey so, remember how when we first told you about BRIC House's exciting spring line-up of performances and events, we…
Chocolate factory gentrified out of Manhattan accused of gentrifying Sunset Park
Brooklyn's been going through a lot of changes--some cool, some lousy--but we've always been able to take comfort in the…
Cumbe Center for Dance is being replaced by a luxury high-rise
Nothing culturally enriches a neighborhood and fosters community quite like a luxury residential tower. Despite how much we love watching…
Literary salon Literate Sunday needs a new home
The solitary writing life lends itself to the lonely drinking life, but even the most anti-social writer has to interact…
New York Times pretending other people are calling Ridgewood ‘Quooklyn’
The New York Times has discovered Ridgewood all over again, which at this point feels like the 3rd or 4th…
Out-of-town investors buy rent-stabilized PLG building, betting on ‘influx of white-collar tenants’
Real estate speculation! Sometimes it takes the form of horrible arson. Oftentimes, it takes much more banal, but somehow more…