As we reach the end of the semester, I thought that it might be interesting to do something a bit different for a change. Rather than find some sort of media that relates to the topic at hand, I thought that an interesting deviation might be a contrast, rather than […]
Author Lauren Shayo
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There is a certain consequence to rezoning that cannot be mitigated. Communities can be displaced, poverty can escalate exponentially, and entire racial groups can be left in the dust as newer (wealthier) people move in. There are few ways to prevent those consequences, fewer ways to alleviate them, and fewer […]
As I read through Sharon Zukin’s work, on the corporatization of Union Square, I could hardly keep myself from relating it back to an article I had read over the weekend. Just as the citizens of New York lost control over Union Square to corporate interests, the citizens of Brooklyn […]
As we read Jeremiah Moss’s rather depressing take on a New York City that has, in his opinion, already reached its end thanks to the suburbs and gentrification reaching ridiculous degrees, it was difficult not to imagine the struggles that minorities and impoverished people experience on a daily basis. In […]
While Mayor Bill de Blasio recently went on the late night television show “Real Time with Bill Maher” to proclaim himself an indisputable progressive, some in his city have found themselves disagreeing. Recently, a small Brooklyn-based newspaper called The Brooklyn Daily Eagle wrote an article about a protest that occurred as a […]
