Gentrification on Steroids — Amazon is Coming to a City Near You
Amazon, the world’s largest online shopping retailer, unveiled plans this month to open a second North American headquarters. Well,…
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Integration Vs. McCarthyism at a Brooklyn Secondary School
Within the rusticated limestone and red brick walls of the former John Jay High School, a drama is playing…
Clinton Aide Takes a Swing at Brooklyn Bernie…And Misses
Hillary Clinton’s campaign strategist Joel Beneson took a swing at Bernie Sanders during a conference call with reporters today.…
Supporters of Underground Railroad Museum Look to Get Project Back on Track
In the decades before the Civil War, tens of thousands of enslaved people of African descent made their way…
Supporters of Underground Railroad Museum Look to Get Project Back on Track
In the decades before the Civil War, tens of thousands of enslaved people of African descent made their way…
I Hosted a Phone Bank for Bernie at My Home in Brooklyn: Here’s What I Learned
I had just come back from a trip to Bolivia and Colombia and had been avidly reading about the…
Gentrification As Oral History
The Edge Becomes the Center: An Oral History of Gentrification in the Twenty-First Century DW Gibson Overlook Press, 2015…
The Nets’ move to Brooklyn has always been more about a real estate power play than basketball. But who…
One of the most wondrous aspects about bicycling in New York is that the city both expands and shrinks…
Three memorial events for the racist, far-right ultra-nationalist Rabbi Meir Kahane are to be held throughout New York City…