Is it possible to ‘counteract gentrification’ while ‘living in a luxury building in Brooklyn’?
Community

Is it possible to ‘counteract gentrification’ while ‘living in a luxury building in Brooklyn’?

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Naming your purebred Golden Doodle Rosa Parks is in fact offensive and tone deaf and in no way makes you a more welcome area resident.

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Meet your neighbors and be an active community member at Flatbush Fest this weekend
Community

Meet your neighbors and be an active community member at Flatbush Fest this weekend

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Leave your apartment this weekend and enjoy the warmth of your neighborhood beneath the looming threat of gentrification at Flatbush Fest.

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‘Making Rent in Bed-Stuy’ film series to feature neighborhood’s most iconic films
Arts & Culture

‘Making Rent in Bed-Stuy’ film series to feature neighborhood’s most iconic films

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The Lower East Side’s Metrograph is hosting a Bed-Stuy themed film series in honor of the release of a new memoir about making rent in the neighborhood.

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Real estate study tells recent college grads Bed-Stuy best neighborhood to move to
Real Estate

Real estate study tells recent college grads Bed-Stuy best neighborhood to move to

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Other suggested neighborhoods for recent college graduates included Crown Heights, Washington Heights and Bushwick.

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What is Park Slope but a petri dish of neo-fuedalism, artists ask in absurdist music video
Arts & Culture

What is Park Slope but a petri dish of neo-fuedalism, artists ask in absurdist music video

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How directly linked are juice bars and white guilt? A new video short, ‘Park Slope’, indirectly asks this question through an “absurdist thought experiment”

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Report: Everyone’s leaving Brooklyn but transplants, their babies, and immigrants
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Report: Everyone’s leaving Brooklyn but transplants, their babies, and immigrants

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New data shows that Brooklyn is seeing population growth exclusively due to a consistent influx of immigrants and a high birthrate among younger borough residents.

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Is Brooklyn Flea ‘apartheid’ or are Williamsburg residents NIMBY trash?
News

Is Brooklyn Flea ‘apartheid’ or are Williamsburg residents NIMBY trash?

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If you were a broker trying to rent an apartment in Williamsburg to a recent New York transplant, how would you advertise […]

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‘Girls’ didn’t ruin Brooklyn, you did
Arts & Culture

‘Girls’ didn’t ruin Brooklyn, you did

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According to pop culture lore, Brooklyn was founded by Miranda Hobbes of the Manhattan Hobbes, when she bravely planted a Manolo Blahnik […]

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Gird your loins, Sunset Parkers: Manhattan and the Garment Industry are coming for the neighborhood
Sunset Park/ Greenwood Heights

Gird your loins, Sunset Parkers: Manhattan and the Garment Industry are coming for the neighborhood

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“Sunset Park, Brooklyn: Not Quite Trendy,” the New York Times wrote last January of the sprawling neighborhood that fills the wide expanse […]

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A new map tracks NYC gentrification real-time
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A new map tracks NYC gentrification real-time

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Gentrification is New York’s white whale, and no amount of low-stakes ukulele songs about the issue are going to rein it in. Trying […]

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