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[VIDEO] Death of the Bodega: Video Essay and Original Rap Documenting Gentrification in Brooklyn

2023-04-04T12:00:00-04:00

Death of the Bodega is a great video essay and original rap from local students and musicians Joe Amato III and Luciano Del Valle that explores how rapid gentrification has affected Brooklyn neighborhoods and local businesses.

This Project was created for the Urban Policy class offered at New York University's Tandon School of Engineering. The goal of this project is to explore the effects that Urban Renewal and Gentrification has on the neighborhood of Downtown Brooklyn. We created a custom track for this project and also created the video to go along with the track in an effort to make the project more appealing.

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[WATCH] Brownstones of Brooklyn: A 1978 Documentary About Brooklyn's Gentrification

2021-10-21T12:00:00-04:00

Everett H. and Evelyn G. Ortner galvanized the historic preservation movement in Brooklyn. In 1963, after living in Brooklyn Heights for the first decade of their marriage, the couple purchased an 1882 four-story brownstone at 272 Berkeley Place in the Park Slope neighborhood of Brooklyn. This would be the catalyst for their involvement in the "Brownstone Revival" movement. The Ortners soon became active in a variety of community organizations. They lobbied local banks to provide mortgages to prospective Park Slope home-buyers at a time when lenders had "red-lined" the neighborhood. They also enlisted Brooklyn Union Gas to sponsor the renovation of dilapidated brownstones, spearheading what became known as the “Cinderella Project,” an advertising campaign used to draw new residents. The couple were also a leading force in the designation of the Park Slope Historic District in 1973.

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[WATCH] No Free Walls: a Mini-Documentary on How Street Art and Gentrification Collide in Bushwick

2020-06-02T12:00:00-04:00

The Bushwick Collective is a non-profit organization which organizes and curates a collection of street art murals in a rapidly-gentrifying former industrial area of Bushwick, Brooklyn.

This great mini-documentary from Complex titled No Free Walls shines a spotlight on the intersection of street art and gentrification in Bushwick.

NO FREE WALLS is an in-depth look at Brooklyn's changing landscape, through the eyes of Joseph Ficalora, the founder and inadvertent art curator of The Bushwick Collective. Joe, son of Italian immigrants, grew up in Bushwick, a neighborhood in Brooklyn once ravaged by drugs, neglect and violence.

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[BOOKS] Urbanism without Guarantees: The Everyday Life of a Gentrifying West Side Neighborhood

2020-05-11T12:00:00-04:00

Urbanism without Guarantees is a fascinating new book that explores how a stretch of a Hell's Kitchen street (West 45th Street from 8th Avenue to the Hudson River) has changed through urban change and gentrification over the decades.

Vigilante action. Renegades. Human intrigue and the future at stake in New York City. In Urbanism without Guarantees, Christian M. Anderson offers a new perspective on urban dynamics and urban structural inequality based on an intimate ethnography of on-the-ground gentrification.

The book is centered on ethnographic work undertaken on a single street in Clinton/Hell’s Kitchen in New York City—once a site of disinvestment, but now rapidly gentrifying. Anderson examines the everyday strategies of residents to preserve the quality of life of their neighborhood and to define and maintain their values of urban living—from picking up litter and reporting minor concerns on the 311 hotline to hiring a private security firm to monitor the local public park. Anderson demonstrates how processes such as investment and gentrification are constructed out of the collective actions of ordinary people, and challenges prevalent understandings of how place-based civic actions connect with dominant forms of political economy and repressive governance in urban space.

Examining how residents are pulled into these systems of gentrification, Anderson proposes new ways to think and act critically and organize for transformation of a place—in actions that local residents can start to do wherever they are.

Urbanism without Guarantees: The Everyday Life of a Gentrifying West Side Neighborhood is available now for just $28 on Amazon.

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[WATCH] Explore the Shrinking Neighborhood and Culture of Manhattan's Little Italy

2020-04-02T12:00:00-04:00

Over the past century, the neighborhood of Little Italy, Manhattan, has evolved from a cultural center for Italian immigrants to a tourist destination with very little Italian culture at all.

In this short video from students Jun Ahn, Fu Wang, and Ge Zhao of the Columbia University Urban Design Program, learn about the shifting cultural patterns of Little Italy.

Little Plenty Italy! As time is passing by, there are so many things happening in Little Italy such as non-italian cultures. The district is known as a tourist attraction in New York City, and it seems that the historical buildings of Little Italy have been preserved well. But we don’t know if the actual Italian culture has also been preserved along with the physical environment of Little Italy. This film will explore of the urban fabric and influenced culture of Little Italy based on our observation, data, and interview.

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[WATCH] Death of the Bodega: a Video Essay and Original Rap Documenting Gentrification in Brooklyn

2019-05-29T17:00:00-04:00

This Project was created for the Urban Policy class offered at New York University's Tandon School of Engineering. The goal of this project is to explore the effects that Urban Renewal and Gentrification has on the neighborhood of Downtown Brooklyn. We created a custom track for this project and also created the video to go along with the track in an effort to make the project more appealing.

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New Brooklynification Season 2 Episode Released: "The Park"

2018-06-20T10:30:00-04:00

Brooklynification is an online, award-winning satirical show about gentrification in Brooklyn. Season two is well under way, and you can watch the funny, most-recent episode titled "The Park" right here, check it out!

A group of Brooklyn LARPers come to live action role play in the park, but find a rap battle in their reserved spot.

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This Funny Satirical Video Exposes The Gentrification of Gentrified Williamsburg

2018-06-05T15:30:00-04:00

Bowie Guerloque is outraged over the corporatization of Williamsburg, and misses the the neighborhood he first moved into 2 years ago.

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New Brooklynification Season 2 Episode Released: "The Tenant"

2018-06-05T13:30:00-04:00

The new owner of Love Parker's building offers her a buyout to move out of her apartment, but Love is no pushover when it comes to negotiations.

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[WATCH] See Why Ray Tirado is Holding Out in East Harlem, Despite the Gentrification

2018-05-23T15:00:00-04:00

From the New York Times:

Even as his landlord tears down the East Harlem building he lives in, Ray Tirado has stayed put in his apartment. “Harassment by construction” is a critical part of how gentrification takes hold in neighborhoods like this, experts say.

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