though the focus recently is on Brooklyn A perennial never-get-to on my Don’t Do list is a thought piece on how neighborhoods change, including my personal history as a residential pioneer in the then newly-minted Tribeca (truly TriBeCa in…
Tag: Gentrification
diversion about real estate (any discussion of Gentrification is tangentially about Manhattan loft neighborhoods)
Tagged with: Brooklyn, Change, Diversion, Gentrification, History, New York Observer, Tribeca, Utne, Williamsburg
NY Post goes into the way back machine: Flower District in 1979
fur on the walls, gardenias in the airWonderful piece in today’s New York Post real estate section about an artist / mystery writer and wife who moved into a Flower District loft in 1979 that had last been a furrier’s…
Tagged with: 1979, Change, Flower District, Gentrification, Groff Studios, History, Longandnarrow, Ny Post, Pioneer, West 28
nothing stays the same, a/k/a the gentrification issue in Chelsea + Lower East Side
car repair shop editionOh the serendipity of juxtaposition! If you looked at The Real Deal this morning (which is still in full spasm mode over the 100th edition celebrations) you’d have seen two items just 5 posts apart dealing with…
Tagged with: Auto Repair, Canute, Change, Delancey Pitt, Gentrification, Lodown, Ny Post, The Real Deal, West 29
can a “loft” in Manhattan change your way of thinking?
or, just provoke a gentrification rant?I missed this last Thursday (I was on vacation), but there is a fascinating web-only New York Times piece in the Living Rooms section of the Opinionator blog, Our Buildings, Ourselves by Elizabeth Hawes. It…
Tagged with: Bushwick, Change, Gentrification, Loft Law, Ny Times, Soho, Tribeca, Williamsburg, Yuppie
Jesuits adapt to Lower East Side gentrification by moving; will lofts follow?
2 things dear to my heartI missed this piece in yesterday’s NY Times (h/t The Real Deal): Lower East Side Has Less to Offer Jesuits Who Teach the Poor. Manhattan Loft Guy is Jesuit educated, I am in close contact…
Tagged with: Bronx, Forsyth, Gentrification, Jesuits, Lower East Side, Mott Haven, School, Soho, Tribeca
required reading: gentrification, preservation and King Canute
whose neighborhood is it anyway?Fascinating (short!) piece in next month’s Atlantic Monthly, available on-line, Gentrification And Its Discontents, in which Benjamin Schwartz not so much reviews but exposes two recent books on Manhattan, Sharon Zukin’s Naked City and Michael Sorkin’s…
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