A tricky thing happens to communities that experience business growth. Aided by jobs, rents and other related prices go up because more people want to live there. Existing residents and their ...

For the last several weeks, WNYC and The Nation’s There Goes the Neighborhood podcast has explored the “destabilizing phenomenon” of gentrification in Brooklyn through the experiences of current ...

The feature on the new generation of Brooklyn food artisans in the New York Times food section was an interesting roundup of small producers/businesses like Marlow & Daughters butcher shop, Cut ...

Brooklyn is known as the “borough of churches,” but it is gaining a reputation as a borough of books. Steeped in literary history, it is home to some of the greatest writers and characters in ...

This morning on my way to work, I walked a few blocks through Downtown Brooklyn. On the surface, it looked the same as it always had — bustling and gritty — but I saw it differently. I noticed the ...

Author and practicing psychoanalyst Jeremiah Moss maintains a blog called “Jeremiah’s Vanishing New York” where he chronicles the shuttering of popular small businesses in rapidly gentrifying areas of ...

Dozens of Brooklynites gathered Tuesday at The Bushwick Starr, a community arts center in Bushwick, for a panel discussion with several influential nightlife professionals. The gathering, dubbed ...

BROOKLYN, N.Y. (PIX11) — Rachel Murray, a lifelong Brooklyn resident living between Downtown Brooklyn and DUMBO, is feeling the impact of gentrification firsthand. “I think it’s unfair,” she says, ...

I find “displacement” to be a much more useful term for describing the negative side of gentrification. Nonetheless, I don’t think gentrification has lost its meaning or should be jettisoned from the ...