Welcome

Welcome to the course web site for the Spring 2016 NYU Gallatin course, “(Dis)Placed Urban Histories.  You will find several different categories of content here.  These include: our syllabus, assignments and due dates, readings materials that are already in the public domain, a blog, and our growing archive of collaboratively-produced primary documents.

This semester we are focusing on the individual histories of long-time residents of South Williamsburg, or “Los Sures.”  Some of our class discussions and the histories we collect will be done in partnership with neighborhood residents thanks to the participation of Southside United HDFC (also called “Los Sures”) and its supporters.

Los Sures is a neighborhood that has been home to a Puerto Rican and Dominican majority since the mid-twentieth century, but in recent years it has begun to transform in dozens of ways through the process of gentrification.  This web site should be approached as a kind of unfolding as we learn about Los Sures together and come to terms with what gentrification means for the neighborhood’s residents and for the city as a whole.