
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,…
Amazon, the world’s largest online shopping retailer, unveiled plans this month to open a second North American headquarters. Well,…
Marchers in Brooklyn Map a Geography of Gentrification
In 2004, Jerry Campbell received notice from the Forest City Ratner development firm informing him that it was in…
City Council passes bills against “construction as harassment.”
Salvaging New York’s Lost Soul
Review: “Vanishing New York: How a Great City Lost Its Soul”
By Jeremiah Moss
Dey Street Books, 2017
Chinatown Tenants Challenge Evictions
Chinatown has emerged as a battleground in the continuing war over gentrification in New York City. In the latest…
A Cinematic Look Back at New York Before Gentrification
This July, Film Forum invites us to look back at New York’s ungentrified heyday with the series “Ford to…
Rents for Thousands of New Yorkers Could Skyrocket Thanks To Legal Loophole
Find out which neighborhoods are most at risk.
A new documentary unpacks the trendy new names gentrifying realtors have given a longstanding Caribbean bastion in Brooklyn.
‘Not For Sale’ — The Chinatown Arts Brigade is Taking on Gentrification Wall by Wall
Overrun with art galleries, luxury condos, bars and hotels — Chinatown has lost approximately one fifth of its Asian…
Fight to Save LES Community Center at an Impasse
On Valentines Day, approximately 50 activists, politicians and members of community organizations from Manhattan’s Lower East Side neighborhood gathered…