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City Limits article about Brooklyn tenants and gentrification
Brooklyn Tenants Battle Gentrification on Many Fronts is an article in the most recent issue of City Limits.
Assignment 4
Assignment 4 is available here.
Photos of commercial gentrification
You may be interested in these pictures showing changes in small businesses in Manhattan: STORE-FRONT
Be sure to check the syllabus for the readings
Please note that if you just go to the “readings” section of this website, you will miss other assigned readings that are linked directly from the syllabus.
Assignment 3
Assignment 3 is available here.
Neighborhood impacts of informal tourist housing
Congratulations on your community board presentations yesterday! You were able to make lively the quotidian workings of neighborhood democracy in New York City – no small feat!
These seemingly small issues can contain a lot within them, as you showed us. On that note, here is a recent article (about New Orleans) that may shed light on why some Harlem residents are opposed to renting neighborhood housing to tourists.
Unfairbnb: What unlicensed short-term rentals mean for New Orleans.
By Dorian Commode and Jules Bentley.
Cities respond to gentrification
Yet another New York Times article on gentrification, this one about how cities are developing policies to protect long-term residents threatened with displacement. Note that NYC is not one of the cities described.
Spike Lee on Gentrification
You can read about and watch Spike Lee’s response to gentrification in the New York Times and New York Magazine.
Historic Districts in Bedford-Stuyvesant
Here is a New York Times article about gentrification and historic districts in Bedford-Stuyvesant.
