“‘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 […]
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The whole premise of gentrification in a neighborhood, or how some may refer to as “rejuvenation” / “revitalization” is almost paradoxical. Based off of unfair provisions which favor traffic and follows capital, gentrification almost seems inevitable post economic-crises (fiscal crisis of 1975). Like the Russification of Brighton Beach, Stabrowski narrates […]
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 […]
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 […]
Union Square to me has always been a public space to me that has been seemingly inclusive and welcoming to the people of New York City. After reading Zukin’s work, I cannot see the famed space the same. Although nothing can take away its historic importance to the very fabric […]
Sharon Zukin, author of Naked City, was interviewed about her book (http://www.citsee.eu/interview/naked-city-authenticity-and-urban-citizenship-interview-sharon-zukin). In the interview she was asked about the term authenticity, specifically “What do you mean by ‘authenticity’ in this urban context?” She responds “I chose very deliberately to use the word ‘authenticity’ to talk about changes in New […]
Formation: Why and Where Volcanoes form when magma from the Earth’s upper mantle erupt outward, growing bigger with each eruption. This happens because of the Earth having tectonic plates, which converge or diverge at certain locations. We can compare this to New York’s real estate industry. Real estate in New […]
In New York for Sale: Community Planning Confronts Global Real Estate, Agnotti discusses how the finance, insurance, and real estate industries greatly contributed to the landscape of New York City we see today and how FIRE affected community planning. Agnotti mentions how big FIRE players contributed to the dislocation of […]
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. […]
While reading under the heading Come East! in chapter 6, “The NeoLiberal Turn” of Jeremiah Moss’s Vanishing New York: How a Great City Lost Its Soul, I was drawn to a quote by former mayor Ed Koch: ‘The days before Gilded Age New York gave way to a city of […]
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 […]
Throughout the readings I kept finding myself coming back to the fact that Robert Moses seems to have done so much for the city, and yet I have never heard of him. When I started reading about the Washington Square Park ordeal though, I realized that I actually have heard […]
