Video: HPD Commish at Conference on Fighting Gentrification
Bronx Documentary CenterQuestions from the audience at the conference last month. The debate over gentrification in New York City is actually a tangle of several interconnected arguments. Is it good or...
View ArticleUrbaNerd: Are Other Boroughs’ Gentrification Refugees Fueling Bronx Growth?
Jim HendersonThe Third Avenue Bridge: one way to get from Manhattan to the Bronx (although we assumed most of these bikers made a round trip). A surge of Bronx pride led me to tweet in triumphant...
View ArticleWNYC and The Nation Ask Us About the Housing Market
NYC DCPZoning is actually way more exciting than this portion of the city's zoning map makes it seem. Honest. "There Goes the Neighborhood," the superb WNYC-Nation series on development, displacement...
View ArticleReporters and Gentrification: Enablers? Chroniclers? Resisters?
Bk DeepBrooklyn Deep managing editor Veralyn Williams (left) and Executive Editor Mark Winston-Griffith If ever there were a story made for hyperlocal media, it'd be gentrification, right? What issue...
View ArticleSunset Park Walking Tour: Diverse, Complex, Contested
Musik Animal Join veteran Brooklyn tour guide (and City Limits contributor) Norman Oder, along with neighborhood activist Maria Roca, on a wide-ranging tour of the Sunset Park neighborhood in Brooklyn....
View ArticleBushwick Artists Navigate the Perils of Success
Phil Buehler for Arts in BushwickPatrons view artwork at Making History Exhibition and AiB 2015 Benefit, taking place at Storefront Ten Eyck Gallery, April 2015. What does it mean to effectively rezone...
View ArticleDigging in to Sunset Park, the City’s ‘Most Interesting Neighborhood’
Aaron Lee FinemanMidnight on a Saturday, 50th Street near Third Avenue, Sunset Park, Brooklyn, 1999. Seventeen years ago, City Limits decided that Sunset Park, Brooklyn, was the city's "most...
View ArticleAfter 5 Pointz: Street Art Thrives and Evolves in Uneasy Dance with Development
Adi TalwarThe Welling Court Mural Project near the Astoria waterfront, predates the demise of Five Pointz. Often considered the "United Nations of Graffiti," Long Island City's 5Pointz reached peak...
View ArticleVideo: Crown Heights, 25 Years Later
BRICFrom left to right, Richard Greene, founder and CEO of the Crown Heights Youth Collective, Rabbi Mordechai Lightstone, a resident active in the area's Jewish community, and Maura Ewing, a freelance...
View ArticleRiot Anniversary Finds Jews and Blacks of Crown Heights Facing Common Threat:...
Shawn HokeEastern Parkway, the dividing line between north and south Crown Heights. This weekend marks the 25th anniversary of one of New York City's most violent episodes of racial unrest: The Crown...
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