The Bronx sheds image of urban blight, becomes latest target of New York City's relentless gentrification
Daniel Bukszpan | Javier E. David
For lifelong Bronx resident Leette Eaton-White, the first sign of her neighborhood's transformation came by way of her local supermarket.
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Stop blaming the hipsters: Here's how gentrification really happens (and what you can do about it)
Noah Manskar, Patch Staff |
NEW YORK, NY — Coffee shops and boutique stores aren't the only signs of gentrifiation.
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These NYC Neighborhoods Are Among Nation's Most Gentrified
Daniel Bukszpan | Javier E. David
For lifelong Bronx resident Leette Eaton-White, the first sign of her neighborhood's transformation came by way of her local supermarket.
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People gentrifying NYC neighborhoods have a lot of complaints
By Kai Ryssdal and Phoebe Unterman
There have been several viral stories already this summer involving white people calling the cops on black people who aren't doing anything wrong. "BBQ Becky" kicked it all off when she called the cops on some folks trying to have a barbeque at Lake Merritt in Oakland. Then came "Permit Patty" across the bay in San Francisco. She tried to report her neighbor, a young, black girl, for selling water.
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The Death of a Once Great City
Kevin Baker
New York has been my home for more than forty years, from the year after the city’s supposed nadir in 1975, when it nearly went bankrupt. I have seen all the periods of boom and bust since, almost all of them related to the “paper economy” of finance and real estate speculation that took over the city long before it did the rest of the nation.
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Gentrification City
By Eddie Small and Dennis Lynch | Research by Yoryi De La Rosa
Once upon a time, developers who were looking to make smart investment plays would throw up a building in Williamsburg, Long Island City or Bushwick and watch the buyers and renters flood in. But those neighborhoods have now largely topped out, sending investors on the hunt for the next corner of New York City that is ripe for opportunity.
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Yes, 311 Nuisance Calls Are Climbing in Gentrifying Neighborhoods
TANVI MISRA
Over the last year or so, multiple videos of people calling the police on black men and women engaging in mundane activities—babysitting, eating lunch, going for a swim—have gone viral.
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When ‘Gentrification’ Isn’t About Housing
By Willy Staley
Last winter, midway through my hourlong commute into Midtown Manhattan — having traversed part of Queens and all of chic north Brooklyn — I found myself reading about how a dish called a “chopped cheese,” a sort of cheese steak made with hamburger meat, had been gentrified. Once a specialty of uptown bodegas, the sandwich had caught the attention of novelty-seeking foodies: Whole Foods was selling them for twice what they cost in the Bronx, where they went for $4 and still do.
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A Fear Born of Brooklyn Gentrification
By Ginia Bellafante
Late on Friday afternoon, on the roofs of the four low-rise, brick buildings that sit at the intersection of Utica Avenue and Montgomery Street in Crown Heights in Brooklyn, pairs of police officers were monitoring the block where, two days earlier, four of their colleagues had shot 10 bullets at a 34-year-old black man, Saheed Vassell, killing him.
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The Harmful Effects Of Gentrification On NYC’s Low-Income Black And Latino Populations
Yazmine Nichols
Late on Friday afternoon, on the roofs of the four low-rise, brick buildings that sit at the intersection of New York City has always been a place that is dynamic and evolving. Change is inevitable, but as the maxim goes, “not all change is good.” In recent years, parts of Brooklyn, the Bronx, Queens and Manhattan have seen an influx of high rises, green spaces and private businesses with little to no input from current community residents. Ultimately, these changes are not meant for low-income Black and Latinx people, but for an ever-growing group of affluent white professionals and tourists. The phenomenon known as gentrification — often described as the process by which depreciated properties are converted and less affluent communities are “renewed” — is really a misnomer for a form of colonization that is rooted in racialized economic exploitation.
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Impact of residential displacement on healthcare access and mental health among original residents of gentrifying neighborhoods in New York City
Sungwoo Lim ,Pui Ying Chan ,Sarah Walters,Gretchen Culp,Mary Huynh,L. Hannah Gould
As gentrification continues in New York City as well as other urban areas, residents of lower socioeconomic status maybe at higher risk for residential displacement. Yet, there have been few quantitative assessments of the health impacts of displacement. The objective of this paper is to assess the association between displacement and healthcare access and mental health among the original residents of gentrifying neighborhoods in New York City.
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The Aesthetics of Gentrification, and New York’s Top-Down Approach to Change
Robin Grearson
“It just feels like one of those places of, like, go there while you can.” Jeremiah Moss is describing Joe Junior, the diner at 16th Street and Third Avenue where we met to talk about gentrification. His book, Vanishing New York: How A Great City Lost Its Soul (HarperCollins, 2017), is loosely arranged by neighborhood, with Jeremiah Moss as a guide. He points out landmarks, stories of small-business battles lost in the area, and, significantly, the layer of invisible political and historical context at work on these neighborhoods. It can be read as a song of grief composed to memorialize vacant buildings that hold space for personal history.
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THE GENTRIFICATION OF CHINATOWN
Kaylen Luu
The Chinatown we all know today is one of the most well-known tourist attractions of New York. Located in the Lower East Side of Manhattan, New York City’s Chinatown reigns as the largest Chinatown in the United States and is home to “the largest concentration of Chinese in the western hemisphere.”While known for its bustling streets filled with fruit and fish markets and souvenir shops, it is perhaps most well-known for its multitude of restaurants and its food culture.
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The Purge of New York
MEAGAN DAY
The streets of East New York are lined with hair salons and fruterias — and coming soon, a massive office complex. New York City officials are planning an intensive overhaul of the area around Brooklyn’s Broadway Junction train station, and office space is a centerpiece of the revitalization plan. “Bringing modern office space to East New York will help drive its continued growth as a job hub and bring hundreds of new private sector jobs to the neighborhood,” said Economic Development Corporation president James Patchett. By now, it’s a song New Yorkers know by heart.
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The History of DUMBO, the Brooklyn neighborhood built upon a legacy of coffee and cardboard boxes
Bowery Boys
Down Under Manhattan Bridge Overpass (DUMBO) is, we think, a rather drab name for a historically significant place in Brooklyn where some of the daily habits of everyday Americans were invented. This industrial area between the Brooklyn and Manhattan bridges traces its story to the birth of Brooklyn itself, to the vital ferry service that linked the first residents to the marketplaces of New York. Two early (lesser) Founding Fathers even attempted to build a utopian society here called Olympia. Instead the coastline’s fate would turn to industrial and shipping concerns. Its waterfront was lined with brick warehouses, so impressive and uniform that Brooklyn received the nickname ‘the Walled City‘
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