Landlord Sought 44 Percent Rent Hike Pushes Whisk Out Of Williamsburg
Kitchen supply store Whisk will be closing its Williamsburg location after the store’s rent was unexpectedly hiked by...
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Elevtr Endorsing Sept 9th Brooklyn March against Gentrification, Racism & Police Violence
“Our neighborhoods are being torn apart by skyrocketing rents and terrorized by police brutality. Low-to-middle income New Yorkers...
UPROSE | Brooklyn’s Oldest Latino Organization Against Gentrification Hosts Meeting 7/26
Founded in 1966, UPROSE is Brooklyn’s oldest Latino community-based organization. An intergenerational, multi-racial, nationally recognized community organization, UPROSE...
Resisting Gentrification, Rezoning and Displacement in East Harlem | The Harlem Art Collective
The following feature comes from a brilliant NYC street art focused blog called Street Art NYC, “A range...
The Bodega No One Remembers
(First published on Before It’s Gone Take It Back) There’s a bodega no one remembers. But I remember, I...
The Towers Go Up In Greenpoint & Now Plans For A Bar/Cafe At Transmitter Park
Who would have known? Something I had little clue would...
Shea Stadium Is Gone
It felt like yesterday I blogged the following, “Oh, Bushwick. How you maintained the DIY glory after Williamsburg,...
Bernie’s Big Money Crusade & Local Economics
Bernie’s Big Money Crusade & NYC Local Economics Amongst the battle for the presidency and its below the...
Our Top 10 People-led Grass Roots Organizations In New York City For 2016
Our Top 10 People-led Grass Roots Organizations In New York City Keep your eyes on big brother New...
Breaking News! The Rents Are Too Damn High!? Cakeshop Closing Is Truly An End Of An Era For The LES
Breaking News! The Rents Are Too Damn High! Cakeshop Closing Is Truly An End Of An Era For...
National Renters Day Of Action | Downtown Brooklyn
National Renters Day Of Action | Downtown Brooklyn National Renters Day of Action is a nationwide effort to...
Brooklyn Night Bazaar Potential To Influence A Struggling NYC Music Scene
Brooklyn Night Bazaar Potential To Influence A Struggling NYC Music Scene “You know the feeling, the low blow,...
How You Can Help A Music Venue In Need Right Now
“When I was in my early twenties I was a suffering insomniac, late nights found me on train...
Happy Holidays and Happy New Year!
“It’s hard to believe that after 7 years of working in all the domains possible as an artist...
Elevtrtrax Investigates The Santiago Chile Music Scene
“Sometimes technology is a roadblock to color. You’re sitting across from someone you’re romantically involved with and they’re...
This just in… Cameo Gallery is closing its doors
How can we ever fill the growing black void in the NYC music scene to stop the...
Our Podcast Interview with Andre Henry
“Here’s a little throw back from our Podcast week of interviews we had with local NYC musicians that...
Poem of the day by Andrew Cotto – “A Brooklyn Mystery”
“Gypsy cabs jostled and honked…Dollar vans lined the sidewalk and people piled in and out. As I walked...
The Invention of Brownstone Brooklyn: Gentrification and the Search for Authenticity in Postwar New York
The Invention of Brownstone Brooklyn: Gentrification and the Search for Authenticity in Postwar New York: Suleiman Osman: 9780199930340:...
The City Just Made It Harder For Your Landlord to Harass You
(Photo: Tarika Roongsri) “Yesterday Mayor Bill de Blasio signed three new measures into law to prevent the tenant...
The sidewalk cafes are great but we need a blueprint for employment and housing opportunities that are desperately needed
“The sidewalk cafes are great but we need a blueprint for employment and housing opportunities that are desperately...
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 privileged and cool set
“We need to learn not only how to hype “hip” cities, but think about how to restore them...
New York, New York by kristin iversen
“We grew up in the New York of the 1980s, and our childhood was in no way some...
Artists, do you have a ridiculous and beautiful, raw and ugly story as a New York native or transplant who feels a deep connection to NYC?
“We are currently taping all new episodes for #Nativestreams with the hopes of eventually raising funds for a...
podcast interview with mark u
“Out of his East Flatbush apartment, a much younger Mark Ugbomah (that goes by @markumusic) as he recalls...
Brooklyn rents almost as expensive as Manhattan
Brooklyn rents almost as expensive as Manhattan Brooklyn rents are rapidly rising and the borough is catching up...
The Hollow Boom Of Brooklyn: Behind Veneer Of Gentrification, Life Gets Worse For Many
“Despite the influx of hipsters and high-income professionals into a few hot neighborhoods, Brooklyn’s population largely remains crushingly...