gentrification
A Bed-Stuy State of Mind: Gentrification Shaken and Stirred
Jason Reynolds · 03/01/14 01:11PMMy first morning in Bed-Stuy was the most amazing morning of my life. I sat on the stoop and watched as the neighborhood stretched and yawned. The sun peeked over the brownstones, as weed smoke wafted through the air like the smell of breakfast bacon. Rastas swaggered up the block, their hair stuffed into stockings, crowned high on their heads. Little boys in blue pants and untucked white shirts, chased little girls in princess dresses down the sidewalk, laughing. Their mothers strutted behind them, shouldering heavy purses and gripping tight to bibles. A shirtless man banged at something underneath his car.
"Do the Right Thing" Painted on House Next to Spike Lee's Old Home
Taylor Berman · 02/28/14 01:54PMSpike Lee on Gentrification: "You Can't Just Come and Bogart"
Taylor Berman · 02/26/14 10:32AMTom Scocca · 10/25/13 11:09AM
Here is a thoughtful article, in the New York Post, about the "complex prestige game" that informs the New York graffiti community's disdain toward Banksy: "'Street art' is associated with whimsy and even gentrification—things the mainstream considers socially good, or at the least, nondestructive."
American Secrets: New York City
Akil b STRANGe, MC Grizzz, AJ Cincotta-Eichenfield and Mayor Bloomberg · 10/12/13 09:36AM"American Secrets: New York City" is an audiovisual attempt at reckoning with Stop and Frisk, gentrification, and coming of age New York City by three young American artists (two emcees, one graphic designer) and their Mayor. The song and video embedded above deal with these hard questions; the lyrics are pasted below.
Heroic Williamsburg Condo Owners Reminisce on "Wild West" Days of 2011
Hamilton Nolan · 09/11/13 12:07PMWilliamsburg, Brooklyn is one of the most famously gentrified neighborhoods in the country, having completed its transition from industrial wasteland/ ethnic enclave to "place where financiers live in glass towers and joke about the 'hipsters' who can no longer afford to live there." But a few years ago, well— Williamsburg was wild, back then.