Bay Street
A New Year’s Update on the de Blasio Rezonings
Abigail Savitch-Lew |
We start 2018 with three rezonings approved and many more in the pipeline at various stages.
Brooklyn
Stand-Up Desk: Antonio Reynoso Talks About Planning for Bushwick’s Future
Jarrett Murphy |
The Brooklyn Democrat discusses displacement and development in Bushwick, the community process he helped launch to plan for the neighborhood’s future and the questions all New Yorkers should be asking of their councilmembers.
Brooklyn
What’s Behind the Long Lines and Angry Voices at Many City Post Offices
Derek Norman |
Machine problems and low morale undermine a service that’s especially critical for the poor.
Art at the Limits
Bushwick Artists Navigate the Perils of Success
Nekoro Gomes |
Bushwick Open Studios put that neighborhood’s art scene on the map—but the event grew so popular some artists worried the art had become an afterthought. An inside look at how the group decided to change its approach.
Brooklyn
Vito Lopez, 1941-2015
Jarrett Murphy |
The former Brooklyn power broker will be remembered for creepy behavior toward women and a major, if complicated, role in stabilizing Bushwick.
Brooklyn
In Bushwick, One Artist’s Renaissance is Another’s Lament
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Two Bushwick artists—one native, one new—had a tense confrontation over the role of artists in gentrification. Then they engineered a collaboration of sorts.
Housing and Homelessness
Displaced, Dispersed, Disappeared: What Happens to Families Forced Out of Bushwick?
Neil deMause |
Everyone knows higher rents have forced many families out of their apartments in rapidly gentrifying Bushwick. But no one has bothered to count them or figure out where they went.
crime
‘Kid, you’re on your own’: Crime in Bushwick
Jarrett Murphy and Neil deMause |
When asked to reflect on the past eight years, people in 11237—be they residents, real estate agents, pastors, activists or politicians—first point to the reduction in crime.
politics
‘First you have to get together’: Change Comes Again to Bushwick
Jarrett Murphy and Neil deMause |
The recession and immigration status are bigger concerns, says Father Kelly, than whether arugula is going to appear at the greengrocer’s.
Bushwick
A Neighborhood at the Center of the City and the Epicenter of Change
Jarrett Murphy and Neil deMause |
This is a look at some of what has happened in one ZIP code since 2001. What follows might not encompass the full story of the wider city. But it is part of that larger tale.
