“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?”
Originally published August 10, 1972
Target may have apologized for its faux-CBGB facade, but appropriating neighborhood icons is at the heart of planned gentrification
July 31, 2018
Making music in a gentrifying New York, then and now
July 26, 2018
A recent returnee to the borough finds her old home changed, and her relationship to it as well
May 16, 2018
Rezoning, redevelopment, and an increasingly unaffordable Manhattan have the once-isolated neighborhood facing some of the city’s highest rent hikes
May 3, 2018
Community activists and “self-gentrifiers” debate how to improve their borough without becoming part of the problem
January 26, 2018
While City Hall works on a plan to preserve manufacturing in East Williamsburg, the gentrification buzzsaw is already taking its toll
November 30, 2017
A Brooklyn bakery struggles with being the unintended face of gentrification
November 16, 2017
Brooklyn and city officials are wooing the online giant, but what kind of dowry will it demand?
September 19, 2017