gentrification
Study: Building Luxury Housing for Gentrifiers Helps The Poor
Hamilton Nolan · 02/12/16 12:46PMGentrified Sesame Street Is Here
Rich Juzwiak · 01/16/16 10:43AMSesame Street’s 46th season premiered on HBO today, with back-to-back half-hour episodes (the shortened run time, down from hourlong shows, is “is viewed as a more manageable amount of time for children to focus,” according to a recent New York Times piece). With the new episodes’ controversial move from PBS to a premium cable network comes ground-level changes, some of which are reflected in the clips above from the first two episodes—Elmo’s in his brownstone (which overlooks a bridge that resembles Philadelphia’s Walt Whitman), Oscar’s got his recycling bin, and Hooper’s Store now looks a place where you can buy a bunch of kale, Stumptown Coffee, and a stick of butter. Muppets, after all, have always been artisanal, through and through.
Sesame Street Teaches Poor Kids: Educational TV Isn't for You Anymore
Tom Scocca · 08/14/15 03:33PMHamilton Nolan · 08/10/15 04:16PM
The founder of a charity group that was displaced from its Venice Beach office by Snapchat’s expansion says that “a Snapchat executive told her he had noticed one of her homeless clients sweeping the street with an old broom, so he offered to buy the organization a new one.” Kindness—it’s affordable :)
Some Quotes From the NYT Piece on Bushwick Hipsters Moving to Detroit
Brendan O'Connor · 07/12/15 03:50PMCatfish, Cornbread, and Condos: South LA on the Verge of Transition
Nijla Mu’min · 06/06/15 12:00PMWhy Do I Still Live in New York City?: A Roundtable
Jason Parham · 06/01/15 12:05PMWeeks ago, reeling from a night of booze and bad decisions, I ventured to a local Bayou-themed restaurant in search of comfort food. I wanted to absorb the last of the alcohol that remained from just hours before, fully determined to get rid of my hangover. When you live alone, this is not an uncommon practice. I often eat out by myself—it’s hard to wait on friends to make brunch plans when all you want to do is devour a plate of syrup-coated waffles—so it wasn’t strange when the bartender and the gray-haired gentleman to my right decided to include me in their conversation. “What do you think?” he said. They had been discussing rising property values in the neighborhood, and the ills of gentrification. The bartender mentioned how a small patch of dirt between two brownstones, just blocks from the restaurant and my apartment, was going for $2 million. “There was also that old gas station in Crown Heights that sold for 30 million recently,” she said. “How is anybody expected to live here now? It’s just too much.”
How Two Billionaires Are Remaking Detroit in Their Flawed Image
Peter Moskowitz · 04/29/15 11:34AMHamilton Nolan · 03/27/15 02:13PM
Juggalos Give Gentrifiers Dick-Sucking Ultimatum
Hudson Hongo · 11/20/14 12:40AMIf nothing else, Insane Clown Posse fans are known for being pretty reasonable, willing to cut off their own nipples for $100 or burn off your tattoo for free. So it's no surprise that a group calling itself "The Juggalo Family" gave targeted North Portland businesses some options when they plastered them with flyers last week, writing, "Vacate or [REDACTED] our [REDACTED]."
Can You Gentrify America’s Poorest, Most Dangerous City?
Peter Moskowitz · 11/10/14 12:00PMThere are two narratives about Camden, New Jersey that media outlets like to rely on. One is of a city so dangerous and poor that its salvation is near-hopeless. That narrative can be seen in Matt Taibbi’s Rolling Stone article “Apocalypse, New Jersey,” in The Nation’s “City of Ruins” and in NBC’s “America’s ‘Invincible’ City Brought to Its Knees.”
San Francisco Gentrifies Out Its Last Remaining Lesbian Bar
Kevin Montgomery · 10/23/14 08:30PMBrooklynites Demand Removal of Homeless to Make Park Safe for Dogs
Hamilton Nolan · 10/17/14 01:47PMWomen Sick of "White People" in Brooklyn Force Neighbors Out at Gunpoint
Allie Jones · 09/09/14 09:45AMWhere Is the Next Next Next Brooklyn Neighborhood?
Hamilton Nolan · 08/28/14 10:48AMWhite Devil Has Great Investment Idea to Ruin Brooklyn Faster
Hamilton Nolan · 08/15/14 09:30AMWhose Good Life Are These Coffee Shops "Positive Markers" Of?
Reuben Fischer-Baum · 04/11/14 02:12PMSpike Lee Thinks A.O. Scott Doesn't Understand Brooklyn
Hazel Cills · 03/31/14 06:30PMOn Sunday, New York Times film critic A.O. Scott wrote a column on Brooklyn and its on-screen portrayal in recent years, from Girls to Saturday Night Fever. With a title like "Whose Brooklyn Is It, Anyway?" it was bound to irk at least a few people, but Scott made sure to piss off the one Brooklynite you don't want to piss off: Spike Lee.