Over Spring break, I had the opportunity to visit Hudson Yards together with my family. Not knowing that we had to reserve tickets in advance for “The Vessel,” my family and I spent our time milling about the shopping mall. As we walked through the first-ever Neiman Marcus in New […]
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“Reading “High Line 1: The Meatpacking District” reminded me a lot Jane Jacobs and her ideas about neighborhoods and the communities they foster. Reading about the Meatpacking District it felt like there were a lot of different little communities that looked out for each other. On page 39 of The […]
Jeremiah Moss describes 1997 as the “turning point” between the old and new culture of the meatpacking district, a neighborhood running from West 14th street to Gansevoort Street. After the acquiring of Manhattan by the Dutch, by the 1800s, this district became coined as such due to its primary purpose […]
“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 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 […]
Race isn’t what breeds the alienation of gentrification, it’s the position that the new imports take. […]
When Amazon picked New York City as one of two locations to house its headquarters, the city was ecstatic for the 25,000 jobs promised for the 25,000 people so eagerly waiting. Or so Bezos thought. Instead of plopping themselves right into Long Island City as was planned, the people of […]
