‘People in the Bronx are looking to be at the real table of envisioning what happens in their neighborhoods. They are open and ready for ideas that can get them…
At a conference on displacement, the city and advocates split over whether public and private development is a cause of residential displacement, or a potential antidote to it.
In the quarter-century since a three-day explosion of violence there, steady effort has produced a more cooperative relationship in the neighborhood. Worries about gentrification and displacement now worry both communities.
Amid preparations for events to commemorate the three days of rioting that shook Brooklyn a quarter century ago, Bk Live hosted people who’ve managed reconciliation and observed the neighborhood’s change.
A developer’s move to close the famous graffiti site in 2013 didn’t kill the street-art scene. It did raise questions about the links and tensions between street art and gentrification.
A walking tour will explore tensions over growth, equity and environmental justice in a community that, in 1999, City Limits declared the city’s most intriguing.
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…
Join veteran Brooklyn tour guide (and City Limits contributor) Norman Oder, along with neighborhood activist Maria Roca, on a wide-ranging tour of the Sunset Park neighborhood in Brooklyn.