Closing Bell: Why Does Anyone Still Live in Brooklyn?
Brooklyn author and journalist Neil deMause has launched a survey asking Brooklynites what drew them to the borough and why they’ve stayed despite rapidly rising housing costs. The questionnaire is...
View ArticleTwo Protest Soon-to-Open Starbucks on Eastern Parkway in Crown Heights
It looks like not everyone is thrilled with the impending Starbucks on Franklin Avenue and Eastern Parkway in Crown Heights. Brooklynian posted this photo of a couple holding a sign that reads “Crown...
View ArticleClosing Bell: Two Panels on Race in Brooklyn
In response to Eric Garner and Ferguson, BRIC and Brooklyn Independent Media are hosting a community town hall on how race and policing affect the civil rights of Brooklynites. Panelists include...
View ArticleClosing Bell: Brooklyn Public Library Talks Gentrification
Beginning Monday, the Brooklyn Public Library debuts a series of panel discussions, oral history recording sessions, film screenings and workshops about gentrification in the borough. Brooklyn...
View ArticleClosing Bell: Brooklyn for Sale: The Price of Gentrification, a Community...
BRIC’s television channel, Brooklyn Independent Media, is hosting a town hall on gentrification tomorrow evening and inviting experts, politicians, activists and urban planners to weigh in on how...
View ArticleClosing Bell: Artists Explore Change, Art and Gentrification in Brooklyn
Artists and photographers who were part of the 2010 exhibition “The Gentrification of Brooklyn: The Pink Elephant Speaks,” will gather at the Brooklyn Historical Society tomorrow to discuss what it...
View ArticleCreative Job Stats Every Brooklynite Should Know
As we all know, Brooklyn’s become a boomtown for creative dreamers and makers. Now, a study from the Center for an Urban Future has confirmed and quantified the artsy influx. CUF is a think tank and...
View ArticleWhat Is Gentrification, Anyway?
North 6th Street in Williamsburg. Photo by Mary Hautman Gentrification. It’s one of those words that gets thrown around in the media and casual conversation. It’s a diagnosis slapped onto the opening...
View ArticleControversial School Rezoning for Dumbo, Brooklyn Heights Approved in 6-3 Vote
Photo by Simone Wilson for Patch After months of heated discussion over the rezoning of two public schools in Brooklyn Heights and Vinegar Hill — raising issues of segregation, social class and...
View ArticleBorough Hall Packed to the Gills for Hearing on Mayor’s East New York...
Brooklynites jammed Brooklyn Borough Hall on Wednesday for the City Planning Commission’s public hearing on the mayor’s controversial plan to rezone East New York. Borough Hall was packed to capacity....
View ArticleClosing Bell: Why Does Anyone Still Live in Brooklyn?
Brooklyn author and journalist Neil deMause has launched a survey asking Brooklynites what drew them to the borough and why they've stayed despite rapidly rising housing costs. The questionnaire is...
View ArticleTwo Protest Soon-to-Open Starbucks on Eastern Parkway in Crown Heights
It looks like not everyone is thrilled with the impending Starbucks on Franklin Avenue and Eastern Parkway in Crown Heights. Brooklynian posted this photo of a couple holding a sign that reads "Crown...
View ArticleClosing Bell: Two Panels on Race in Brooklyn
In response to Eric Garner and Ferguson, BRIC and Brooklyn Independent Media are hosting a community town hall on how race and policing affect the civil rights of Brooklynites. Panelists include...
View ArticleClosing Bell: Brooklyn Public Library Talks Gentrification
Beginning Monday, the Brooklyn Public Library debuts a series of panel discussions, oral history recording sessions, film screenings and workshops about gentrification in the borough. Brooklyn...
View ArticleClosing Bell: Brooklyn for Sale: The Price of Gentrification, a Community...
BRIC's television channel, Brooklyn Independent Media, is hosting a town hall on gentrification tomorrow evening and inviting experts, politicians, activists and urban planners to weigh in on how rapid...
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Closing Bell: Artists Explore Change, Art and Gentrification in Brooklyn
Artists and photographers who were part of the 2010 exhibition "The Gentrification of Brooklyn: The Pink Elephant Speaks," will gather at the Brooklyn Historical Society tomorrow to discuss what it...
View ArticleClosing Bell: Park Slope’s P.S. 321 Holds Panel on Gentrification
P.S. 321's Diversity Committee is hosting three sociology professors for a roundtable discussion on gentrification this Thursday. Their conversation will explore the changing racial, ethnic and...
View ArticleManufacturing, New Business, Population, Incomes All Rise as Gowanus Gentrifies
New businesses, particularly in small-scale manufacturing and craft goods, have shot up in Gowanus since 2000, according to a report cited in the New York Daily News. Wholesalers and crafts makers...
View ArticleWhat Is Gentrification, Anyway?
Gentrification. It's one of those words that gets thrown around in the media and casual conversation. It's a diagnosis slapped onto the opening of a funky coffee shop or the closing of a well-loved...
View ArticleTo Solve Housing Crisis, Build Communities First, Says Longtime East Brooklyn...
Rev. Edward Mason has seen many changes in Brooklyn during his 37 years in the ministry there -- most recently parishioners forced to move due to rising home prices. As pastor of a pair of...
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