Kitchen supply store Whisk will be closing its Williamsburg location after the store’s rent was unexpectedly hiked by 44 percent.
Whisk’s owner Natasha ...
"Our neighborhoods are being torn apart by skyrocketing rents and terrorized by police brutality. Low-to-middle income New Yorkers are being priced out or d...
Founded in 1966, UPROSE is Brooklyn's oldest Latino community-based organization. An intergenerational, multi-racial, nationally recognized community organiza...
The following feature comes from a brilliant NYC street art focused blog called Street Art NYC, "A range of artworks and writings — by members of th...
It felt like yesterday I blogged the following, "Oh, Bushwick. How you maintained the DIY glory after Williamsburg, it was a story that like all stories was rid...
Bernie's Big Money Crusade & NYC Local Economics
Bernie Sanders had the largest turnouts of 2016 and the least airtime during the primary, D vs R race 201...
Our Top 10 People-led Grass Roots Organizations In New York City
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Breaking News! The Rents Are Too Damn High! Cakeshop Closing Is Truly An End Of An Era For The LES
"Have you been to the Lower East Side?" People would ask...
National Renters Day Of Action | Downtown Brooklyn
National Renters Day of Action is a nationwide effort to raise awareness on the issue of gentrificatio...
Brooklyn Night Bazaar Potential To Influence A Struggling NYC Music Scene
"You know the feeling, the low blow, the sucker punch, you feel when your favorite ve...
Me, my siblings, my father, and my now deceased Grandparents in Parkslope circa 1988.
"When I was in my early twenties I was a suffering insomniac, late...
"It's hard to believe that after 7 years of working in all the domains possible as an artist in NYC, I could see the threads then that have bread Elevtrtrax. Bu...
"Sometimes technology is a roadblock to color. You're sitting across from someone you're romantically involved with and they're glued to a dimly lit pixel ...
"Here's a little throw back from our Podcast week of interviews we had with local NYC musicians that played our annual Bowery + Houston st Festival, Episode...
“Gypsy cabs jostled and honked…Dollar vans lined the sidewalk and people piled in and out. As I walked down the slope, the buildings grew smaller and squali...
The Invention of Brownstone Brooklyn: Gentrification and the Search for Authenticity in Postwar New York: Suleiman Osman: 9780199930340: Amazon.com: Books
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"Yesterday Mayor Bill de Blasio signed three new measures into law to prevent the tenant harassment and shady practices that have be...
"The sidewalk cafes are great but we need a blueprint for employment and housing opportunities that are desperately needed in parts of Brownsville and East New ...
"We need to learn not only how to hype “hip” cities, but think about how to restore them as aspirational places for those who aren’t members of the privil...
“We grew up in the New York of the 1980s, and our childhood was in no way some kind of crime-addled haunted house. And this wasn’t because we led some p...
"We are currently taping all new episodes for #Nativestreams with the hopes of eventually raising funds for a web launch later in the year! Artists, do you have...
"Out of his East Flatbush apartment, a much younger Mark Ugbomah (that goes by @markumusic) as he recalls it, heard the earliest forms of inspiration that f...
Brooklyn rents almost as expensive as Manhattan
Brooklyn rents are rapidly rising and the borough is catching up to Manhattan’s pricey housing, accordi...
"Despite the influx of hipsters and high-income professionals into a few hot neighborhoods, Brooklyn’s population largely remains crushingly poor, and a...
