In “From Protest to Community Plan” by Tom Angotti, he talks about We Stay! ¡Nos Quedamos!, a very famous committee of local homeowners, store owners and others created in Melrose Avenue in the Bronx. It was created to combat a plan to build housing that only the middle class could […]
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“‘From the Frying Pan to the Oven’: Gentrification and the Experience of Industrial Displacement in Williamsburg, Brooklyn” by Winifred Curran, is about how deindustrialization in Williamsburg caused displacement of people and businesses due to developers desiring their land. However, we know that developers usually come to a […]
Over three decades ago, a band from New York City released a song that I think symbolizes what Sharon Zukin talks about in the chapter “How Brooklyn Became Cool.” In 1986, the Beastie Boys released the song No Sleep Till Brooklyn. Most people know that the song name is actually […]
In Michael Greenberg’s “Tenant’s Under Siege: Inside New York City’s Housing Crisis” he mentions that a “tide of homelessness” has swept across NYC. So much so, that shelters are being filled to maximum capacity every night. But upon doing more research it’s sadly even more severe than he leads on. […]
In Jane Jacob’s The Death and Life of Great American Cities, she mentions how important it is for there to be a natural place for people to interact with each other because if they don’t, they become more private and less social which in turn makes the damages the […]
