Author: Rebecca Amato

Click through these maps of the census tracts in Los Sures to see what the ethnic make-up of the area is in 2014: http://www.socialexplorer.com/0a1375fc17/view

This article was published in November 2015 and documents the story of tenant activist Nefertiti Macaulay.  Macaulay works with the Crown Heights Tenants Union. https://www.vanalen.org/stories/fighting-gentrification-on-the-ground-a-first-hand-account/

Crossing Borders, Bridging Generations (2011 – 2015), a project spearheaded by the Brooklyn Historical Society, sought to document contemporary Brooklyn by collecting oral history interviews with people who self-identified as mixed heritage. In the U.S., people tend to think about race first and foremost when they are thinking about mixed identity. By resisting definingmixed heritage […]

This short dialogue offers an interesting glimpse into how some developers, planners, and architects speak about the branding and reconstruction of Brooklyn. The article is about Pacific Park, an area some may remember as Atlantic Yards, a controversial development that received a great deal of criticism from the local community before it was approved. What […]

What is Liberalism? Notes from John Rawls, A Theory of Justice (1971), courtesy of Darrell Huwe, Ohio University  First Principle: Liberty “Each person is to have an equal right to the most extensive total system of equal basic liberties compatible with a similar system of liberty for all.” Second Principle: Wealth Social and economic inequalities are […]

This podcast just launched today.  Check it out!  I wonder what they will tell us about Los Sures, if anything? http://www.wnyc.org/story/there-goes-neighborhood-brooklyn-gentrification/

This is an old article, but it documents an interesting photography project that focused on the Greenpoint/Williamsburg area, not far from our neighborhood of interest. http://www.bkmag.com/2015/09/09/brooklyn-changing-before-and-after-shots-of-north-brooklyns-gentrified-landscape/

Spotted by our own A’Nisa Megginson in today’s New York Times: “New York’s Next Hot Neighborhoods” And the Twitter response….    

For our class meeting on February 19, we read two chapters from historian Suleiman Osman’s book The Invention of Brownstone Brooklyn: Gentrification and the Search for Authenticity in Postwar New York (Oxford, 2011.)  During our discussion, we identified a list of values that the “brownstoner” movement embraced, as well as a list of values they […]

In case you didn’t see this article last year, it’s a good examination of the movement of real estate speculation and gentrification toward the outer reaches of the New York City area.  It also underlines the complicated dance being orchestrated between real estate interests and city government when it comes to building “affordable housing.” http://nymag.com/daily/intelligencer/2015/01/east-new-york-gentrification.html […]