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Gentrification
climate change
Nov. 22, 2024
My Doomed Hunt for a House in the Rockaways I was ready to buy a home in a neighborhood I loved. Was I delusional?
neighborhoods
Oct. 28, 2024
The Meatpacking District With No Meat-packers The city plans to kick them out of their last market, which could become much-needed housing and a “cultural and artistic hub.”
When a Townhouse Renovation Raises Questions About a City’s Future A debate about gentrification is set against a backdrop of monochrome and tasteful decor in ‘Good Bones’ at the Public.
I Can’t Get These Pants Off My Mind In The Curse , Emma Stone wears an unsettlingly telling pair of trousers.
neighborhoods
Dec. 13, 2023
‘It’s a Tyranny of Mike’ A Crown Heights building Facebook group has descended into drama.
the year i ate new york
Sept. 20, 2023
Greenpoint Versus Greenpoint Can a quickly changing neighborhood learn to coexist with itself?
The Menace of the Megamansion Buyers who are turning multiunit buildings into single-family palaces have taken away hundreds of thousands of housing units.
behind the scenes
Oct. 31, 2022
Why One Chinatown Mini-mall Languishes While Another Thrives On East Broadway, one shopping center has become an art-and-fashion destination. It isn’t just the cheap rent.
are u coming?
June 13, 2022
Dancing for Days in Detroit A dispatch from the Movement Electronic Music Festival and its after-parties.
brick and mortar
May 4, 2022
Cheap Meat or Luxury Rentals? Inside the Fight at Western Beef A son’s plan to upscale the grocery’s real-estate empire is reined in by his father.
Puerto Rican Village Lives On Revisiting the legacy of an overlooked Brooklyn community with the founders of Nuyorican Mag.
Eric Adams’s ‘Go Back to Iowa’ Is Intolerant — and Incoherent The Brooklyn borough president implies that you’re not a New Yorker if you shop at chain stores. Tell it to the customers at your local Duane Reade.
Cops in Riot Gear Evict Homeless Mothers From Vacant House The women were occupying an unused home owned by a house-flipping company with their children, in an act of civil disobedience.
last night on late night
Oct. 31, 2019
New Studies Say Gentrification Doesn’t Really Force Out Low-Income Residents In part because it improves school integration, it may be better for lower-income residents than previously thought.
infestations
May 22, 2019
It’s the Rats’ City, We’re Just Living in It In cities across the country, rat sightings are on the rise.
neighborhoods
May 22, 2019
concert review
Apr. 29, 2019
not the onion
Dec. 12, 2018
Sesame Street Introduces Its First Homeless MuppetThe show wants to destigmatize housing insecurity.
vulture insiders book club
Nov. 19, 2018
Breakout Author Jamel Brinkley on Men, Gentrification, and ‘Safari Literature’ His debut collection, Lucky Man , was a fiction finalist for last week’s National Book Awards.
real estate
Sept. 20, 2018
Can These Towns Become More Like Hudson Without Becoming Hudson? Newburgh, Catskill, and Troy, once downtrodden, are hoping recent revitalization doesn’t get out of hand.
the industry
Sept. 22, 2016
Is Everyone Focusing Too Much on Gentrification? If your concern is poor people getting dislocated, there may be much bigger issues to worry about.
PJ Harvey’s New Song Exposes D.C. Gentrification The former mayor’s office has compared her to Piers Morgan.
How Has Chinatown Stayed Chinatown? Against all odds, an ethnic monolith still exists within the most gentrified island on Earth. In part because of these 21 people.
What 311 Calls Can Tell Us About Gentrification A new study highlights the tensions that exist at “fuzzy” racial borders.
gentrification
May 12, 2015
Grim, Racist Methods of One Brooklyn Landlord He explains the tricks he uses to get black renters — and even owners — out of their homes in gentrifying neighborhoods.
real estate
Jan. 28, 2015
The Red Hot Rubble of East New York One of the poorest neighborhoods in Brooklyn is suddenly the focus of both private speculators and City Hall.
real estate
Jan. 28, 2015
The Red-Hot Rubble of East New York One of the poorest neighborhoods in Brooklyn is suddenly the focus of both private speculators and City Hall, which wants to build thousands of units of affordable housing there — and by announcing its plans is fueling the land rush.
gentrification
Nov. 5, 2014
oh brooklyn
June 30, 2014
What Bloomberg Associates Can Learn From Mexico City Bloomberg might fantasize about cleaning up the chaos, but he ought to study what’s already been accomplished.
real estate
Apr. 10, 2014
Gentrification Is Coming for Queens Sales are way up: “Queens is benefiting directly from Brooklyn’s success.”
brooklyn’s finest
Mar. 31, 2014
San Francisco’s Hunters Point: A Wasteland Repaved “It’s like some people are still trapped in time as the scenery is changing.”
gentrification
Mar. 10, 2014
‘Gentrification in Progress’ at 5Pointz Street artists wrapped the former graffiti mecca in a giant banner.
the wrong thing
Feb. 28, 2014
neighborhood news
Feb. 19, 2014
New York City Gentrification in 5 GIFs See how notable city corners have changed via Google Street View art.
Brooklynnovation
Dec. 10, 2013
gentrification
Mar. 20, 2013
neighborhood news
Feb. 6, 2013
Gentrification, Stop-and-Frisk Collide in Crown Heights Almost twice the stops on one side of the neighborhood than the other.
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