A developer’s move to close the famous graffiti site in 2013 didn’t kill the street-art scene. It did raise questions about the links and tensions between street art and gentrification.
A walking tour will explore tensions over growth, equity and environmental justice in a community that, in 1999, City Limits declared the city’s most intriguing.
Bushwick Open Studios put that neighborhood’s art scene on the map—but the event grew so popular some artists worried the art had become an afterthought. An inside look at how the group decided to change its approach.
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.
Brooklyn Deep’s Third Rail podcast invited City Limits to discuss the role of hyperlocal media in covering development, displacement and ‘the G word.’
The WNYC-Nation series ‘There Goes the Neighborhood’ goes into East New York, the housing market and zoning … and City Limits goes there with them.
The Bronx was the fastest growing county in the state last year. Is that because residents are fleeing there after being displaced from other parts of the city?
The January 10 conference on gentrification sponsored by CASA, the Bronx Documentary Center and City Limits looked at many of the questions around the most weighted word in local policy discussions today.
Will neighborhoods accept the mayor’s housing and rezoning plans? Conversations about AMI, FAR, 421-a and other policy particulars will be important. But the mayor must also confront a larger distrust driven in part by past promises that fell short.
This weekend, City Limits will moderate a panel discussion featuring a tenant leader, artists and the commissioner of the Department of Housing Preservation and Development to try to answer that question.
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