Labeled as the “real estate capital of the world,” New York City is determined to be one of the most marvelous cities in the US due to urban city planning. However, Tom Agnotti serves to enlighten readers about the true harms that real estate and “modernizing” the city has caused […]
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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. […]
After reading Tom Angotti’s chapter “The Real Estate Capital of the World” and Michael Greenberg’s article “Tenants Under Siege: Inside New York City’s Housing Crisis,” the theme of dislocation became crystal clear. Unfortunately, gentrification is one of the main reasons behind New York City’s large homeless population. And this population […]
Billy Joel’s song “We Didn’t Start the Fire” names numerous events, ideas, and objects that were prevalent in popular culture and politics during the latter half of the 20th Century, many of which were controversial such as the creation of the hydrogen bomb, President Nixon’s Watergate scandal, and the Cold […]
Ann Lewis: someone invested in the power dynamics of society, in the consequences of unchecked shifts in power, in the various realities perceived by communities as a result of these consequences. In 2014, the 5Pointz building in Queens was bought by developer Jerry Wolkoff with the intent to transform the […]
There’s been a common thread running through many of our readings. Critics such as Tochterman, Florida, and Zukin, among others, have referenced the theory of Jane Jacobs and how it has/hasn’t held up. This may be indicative of the recognition her argument has received. It’s striking, and a little odd […]
This past January a news clip of one of Fox News’ most recognizable talking heads, Tucker Carlson, drew a lot of attention due to the nature of Carlson’s argument and its uncharacteristic quality for a right wing platform like Fox News. Carlson begins by talking about Mitt Romney’s involvement in […]
Earlier this year, Amazon, a multi-billion dollar company had announced the establishment of their headquarters in Long Island City, Queens. NYC. With this decision came a lot of backlash for the ramifications of what this would mean for the neighborhood surrounding it. This is because the place where Amazon wanted […]
“Which part of Jacob’s vision was actually misinterpreted?.”This is what I remember briefly asking myself after rereading the beginning of Tochterman’s “Theorizing Neoliberal Urban Development: A Genealogy from Richard Florida to Jane Jacobs” this week. As a mutual consensus, Jane Jacobs is and will be forever seen as the hero who fought […]
As I was reading Tochterman’s “Theorizing Neoliberal Urban Development: A Genealogy from Richard Florida to Jane Jacobs,” I kept thinking back to Jane Jacob’s The Death and Life of Great American Cities and the way in which ideas are interpreted or rather, misinterpreted. Tochterman writes a great deal about the […]
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 […]
Class Divide is a HBO documentary that discusses gentrification in New York and how it is a fast changing city. Similarly, in this week’s reading, Jeremiah Moss discusses Hyper-Gentrification and how it is occurring in an accelerated rate. Jeremiah Moss talks about how New Yorkers are no longer seen as […]