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Where Have All the Hipsters Gone?

“Where is that whole happy tormented crowd I used to know? Driven from the Village to the Lower East Side too ... where? Where are they? Or maybe the question should be: where am I?”

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NEW YORK CITY ARCHIVES

The TRGT Fiasco Was No Mistake

Target may have apologized for its faux-CBGB facade, but appropriating neighborhood icons is at the heart of planned gentrification

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NEW YORK CITY ARCHIVES

On the Outside Looking In

Making music in a gentrifying New York, then and now

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NEW YORK CITY ARCHIVES

The Bronx Is Blooming, but for Whom?

A recent returnee to the borough finds her old home changed, and her relationship to it as well

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Neighborhoods

Gentrifying Highbridge Faces a Rocky Future

Rezoning, redevelopment, and an increasingly unaffordable Manhattan have the once-isolated neighborhood facing some of the city’s highest rent hikes

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NEW YORK CITY ARCHIVES

South Bronx Saviors or Sellouts?

Community activists and “self-gentrifiers” debate how to improve their borough without becoming part of the problem

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Neighborhoods

Williamsburg’s Industrial Businesses Are Fleeing

While City Hall works on a plan to preserve manufacturing in East Williamsburg, the gentrification buzzsaw is already taking its toll

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Neighborhoods

Sconey Island

A Brooklyn bakery struggles with being the unintended face of gentrification

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NEWS & POLITICS ARCHIVES

What Would Amazon’s Arrival in Sunset Park Mean for Locals — and City Taxpayers?

Brooklyn and city officials are wooing the online giant, but what kind of dowry will it demand?

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MUSIC ARCHIVES

Somi’s “Petite Afrique” Celebrates Her Favorite Slice of the City

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