Brooklyn
Listen: Gentrification’s Winners, Losers and Questions
Jarrett Murphy |
Three experts on neighborhood change discuss what the G word has meant for New York City, its neighborhoods and their people.
ARTS and CULTURE
Books: When Gentrification Came to Greenpoint
Matthew Schuerman |
In an excerpt from a new book, Newcomers: Gentrification and Its Discontents, an up-close look at one tenant-landlord dispute shows what’s really happening around the city.
Many Reasons Drive City’s Storefront Vacancies, Report Says
Sadef Ali Kully |
A Department of City Planning report that examined 24 commercial neighborhoods across the five boroughs found a small increase in storefront vacancies over the last decade — but says the uptick cannot be blamed on rising rents alone.
arrests
Crime and Punishment Have Both Plummeted in Bushwick
Jarrett Murphy |
In the 83rd precinct that covers Bushwick, there were 77 murders in 1990, 44 in 1993 and 20 as recently as 2004. Last year, there were eight. This year the 83rd is on pace for six homicides.
The Bushwick Project
The Battle of the Boobie Trap: Retail Tensions in Bushwick
Jarrett Murphy |
Bushwick feels like it’s changing by the minute, and storefronts that seem to herald demographic change are a point of increasing friction.
City on the Edge: Climate Change and New York
Opinion: To Save the Climate, NYC Neighborhoods Will Have to Accept Density
Jonathan Flothow |
‘The climate emergency demands densification. The Left must put forward a vision for maximizing density as part of its commitment to social justice.’
Brooklyn
Opinion: A Film About Bushwick Has a Simple Message—’See Us’
Stefanie Joshua |
‘How do you reconcile 30 years of change within the Bushwick community? How do you make sense of development and the subsequent displacement that occurs?’
Affordable Housing
Opinion: To Combat Gentrification, NYC Needs Simpler & Speedier Policies
Michael Lappin |
‘To compete in this environment, the city must offer an attractive affordable housing alternative, define the neighborhoods where it is available, and implement individual deals on a timely fashion.’
Agenda 2019
CityViews: Amazon Will Deliver More Displacement to NYC’s Working Class
Shekar Krishnan, Lina Lee and Gregory Louis |
‘De Blasio and Cuomo are introducing a giant mechanism for displacement into communities that government already fails so shamefully.’
Bed-Stuy
Crime Spike in Bed-Stuy Spurs Call for Block Watchers
Kelly Ng |
The Block Watcher program was popular in the 1970s and 1980s. The program was revived in 2013 across several neighborhoods, including Bed-Stuy and Astoria, and then halted again in recent years.
