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Gentrification

  1. dress code
    I Can’t Get These Pants Off My MindIn The Curse, Emma Stone wears an unsettlingly telling pair of trousers.
    By Danielle Cohen
  2. neighborhoods
    ‘It’s a Tyranny of Mike’A Crown Heights building Facebook group has descended into drama.
    By Adriane Quinlan
  3. the year i ate new york
    Greenpoint Versus GreenpointCan a quickly changing neighborhood learn to coexist with itself?
    By Chelsea Peng
  4. housing
    The Menace of the MegamansionBuyers who are turning multiunit buildings into single-family palaces have taken away hundreds of thousands of housing units.
    By Kim Velsey
  5. behind the scenes
    Why One Chinatown Mini-mall Languishes While Another ThrivesOn East Broadway, one shopping center has become an art-and-fashion destination. It isn’t just the cheap rent.
    By Wilfred Chan
  6. are u coming?
    Dancing for Days in DetroitA dispatch from the Movement Electronic Music Festival and its after-parties.
    By Brock Colyar
  7. brick and mortar
    Cheap Meat or Luxury Rentals? Inside the Fight at Western BeefA son’s plan to upscale the grocery’s real-estate empire is reined in by his father.
    By Jasper Craven
  8. pa’lante
    Puerto Rican Village Lives OnRevisiting the legacy of an overlooked Brooklyn community with the founders of Nuyorican Mag.
    By Angelina Ruiz
  9. features
    A Hot New Restaurant Moved In. That Made Its Neighbors Nervous.A gentrification battle erupts in Ridgewood.
    By Chris Crowley
  10. cityscape
    Eric Adams’s ‘Go Back to Iowa’ Is Intolerant — and IncoherentThe Brooklyn borough president implies that you’re not a New Yorker if you shop at chain stores. Tell it to the customers at your local Duane Reade.
    By Justin Davidson
  11. resistance
    Cops in Riot Gear Evict Homeless Mothers From Vacant HouseThe women were occupying an unused home owned by a house-flipping company with their children, in an act of civil disobedience.
    By Hannah Gold
  12. last night on late night
    Desus and Mero Found the Spookiest Thing: a Gentrified BronxSoon the whole studio will be condos.
    By Bethy Squires
  13. cityscape
    New Studies Say Gentrification Doesn’t Really Force Out Low-Income ResidentsIn part because it improves school integration, it may be better for lower-income residents than previously thought.
    By Justin Davidson
  14. infestations
    It’s the Rats’ City, We’re Just Living in ItIn cities across the country, rat sightings are on the rise.
    By Hannah Gold
  15. neighborhoods
    Gentrification Threatened Their Bar — Black Neighbors Refused to Let That Happen“As our erasure happens, we’re trying very hard to protect our spaces.”
    By Nikita Richardson
  16. concert review
    Jay-Z Continues to Lay Out the Blueprint for How to Age in Rap With B-Sides 2As Jay told the crowd, he can’t help it if his B sides are A sides.
    By Craig Jenkins
  17. not the onion
    Sesame Street Introduces Its First Homeless MuppetThe show wants to destigmatize housing insecurity.
    By Bethy Squires
  18. vulture insiders book club
    Breakout Author Jamel Brinkley on Men, Gentrification, and ‘Safari Literature’His debut collection, Lucky Man, was a fiction finalist for last week’s National Book Awards.
    By BORIS KACHKA
  19. real estate
    Can These Towns Become More Like Hudson Without Becoming Hudson?Newburgh, Catskill, and Troy, once downtrodden, are hoping recent revitalization doesn’t get out of hand.
    By Simone Kitchens
  20. closings
    East Village Music Mecca HiFi Bar Will CloseIts last day is October 29.
    By Chris Crowley
  21. the industry
    LeBron James and Ron Funches Are Making a Comedy About Gentrification for NBCIt’s called There Goes the Neighborhood.
    By Nate Jones
  22. Is Everyone Focusing Too Much on Gentrification?If your concern is poor people getting dislocated, there may be much bigger issues to worry about.
    By Jesse Singal
  23. videology
    PJ Harvey’s New Song Exposes D.C. GentrificationThe former mayor’s office has compared her to Piers Morgan.
    By Dee Lockett
  24. gallery
    How Has Chinatown Stayed Chinatown?Against all odds, an ethnic monolith still exists within the most gentrified island on Earth. In part because of these 21 people.
    By Nick Tabor
  25. race
    What 311 Calls Can Tell Us About GentrificationA new study highlights the tensions that exist at “fuzzy” racial borders.
    By Benjamin Ryan
  26. gentrification
    Grim, Racist Methods of One Brooklyn LandlordHe explains the tricks he uses to get black renters — and even owners — out of their homes in gentrifying neighborhoods.
    By DW Gibson
  27. chat room
    Morgan Freeman on ’60s NYC, Bigotry, and Why God Looks Like Him“God looks like me.”
    By Nate Jones
  28. real estate
    The Red Hot Rubble of East New YorkOne of the poorest neighborhoods in Brooklyn is suddenly the focus of both private speculators and City Hall.
    By Andrew Rice
  29. real estate
    The Red-Hot Rubble of East New YorkOne of the poorest neighborhoods in Brooklyn is suddenly the focus of both private speculators and City Hall, which wants to build thousands of units of affordable housing there — and by announcing its plans is fueling the land rush.
    By Andrew Rice
  30. gentrification
    Is Complaining About Street Sexual Harassment Racist?Where sex, race, and class collide.
    By Kat Stoeffel
  31. decaf
    Brooklyn Coffee Shop Owner Posts Anti-Semitic Rants on Facebook, InstagramAnd then it got worse. 
    By Katie Zavadski
  32. oh brooklyn
    Even Spike Lee’s Wife Teases Him About Kickstarting Gentrification in Brooklyn“This is because of you,” she says. (Humblebrag?)
    By Katie Van Syckle
  33. Relocations
    Greenpoint’s Oldest Polish Bakery Will Close to Make Way for DevelopmentIt’ll likely reopen nearby, but possibly not in Greenpoint.
    By Hugh Merwin
  34. beef
    Spike Lee Still Going on Gentrification, Calls Michael Rapaport Stupid“Look, he’s not even a good filmmaker, first of all.”
    By Joe Coscarelli
  35. urban design
    What Bloomberg Associates Can Learn From Mexico CityBloomberg might fantasize about cleaning up the chaos, but he ought to study what’s already been accomplished.
    By Justin Davidson
  36. real estate
    Gentrification Is Coming for QueensSales are way up: “Queens is benefiting directly from Brooklyn’s success.”
    By S. Jhoanna Robledo
  37. brooklyn’s finest
    Read Spike Lee’s Open Letter to the New York Times About GentrificationThe filmmaker takes on A.O. Scott in response to a Sunday column.
    By Joe Coscarelli
  38. San Francisco’s Hunters Point: A Wasteland Repaved“It’s like some people are still trapped in time as the scenery is changing.”
    By Hua Hsu
  39. gentrification
    ‘Gentrification in Progress’ at 5PointzStreet artists wrapped the former graffiti mecca in a giant banner.
    By Joe Coscarelli
  40. the wrong thing
    Vandals Graffiti Next to Spike Lee’s Old HouseAnd an anarchy symbol, of course.
    By Joe Coscarelli
  41. Spike Lee’s Amazing Rant Against Gentrification: ‘We Been Here!’Speaking in Brooklyn, the local filmmaker went off.
    By Joe Coscarelli
  42. neighborhood news
    New York City Gentrification in 5 GIFsSee how notable city corners have changed via Google Street View art.
    By Joe Coscarelli
  43. Is Gentrification All Bad? Justin Davidson Answers His CriticsThe debate continues.
    By Justin Davidson
  44. Brooklynnovation
    Danny Meyer Likes Brooklyn Fine, It’s Just Not Necessarily for HimThe future of fine dining may just be shopping malls.
    By Belle Cushing
  45. oh brooklyn
    Williamsburg Gentrification Especially Hard on Hip BabiesThe construction makes them cry.
    By Joe Coscarelli
  46. gentrification
    Why Developers Didn’t Destroy BrooklynTwo recent movies get it wrong.
    By Ben Adler
  47. neighborhood news
    Gentrification, Stop-and-Frisk Collide in Crown HeightsAlmost twice the stops on one side of the neighborhood than the other.
    By Adam Martin
  48. Gentrification
    Menino Parties at Back Deck to Make Downtown Crossing HappenWe’ll be really happy if he brings Shake Shack to the ‘hood.
    By Kara Baskin
  49. Coming Soon
    It’s True: Fort Point + Ming Tsai = New RestaurantHe’ll open a Chinese restaurant in a funny-shaped building on A Street.
    By Kara Baskin
  50. neighborhood news
    Ungentrified Brooklyn Has Mixed Feelings About Missing the Hipster InvasionCan we make “très Sheepshead Bay” happen?
    By Margaret Hartmann
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