Resources

Lower East Side/East Village Organizations

Catholic Worker

Museum of Reclaimed Urban Space

Cooper Square Committee

The Loisaida Center

Community Board 3/Manhattan

Research Resources and Suggested Readings

Welikia Map Project

Welikia Map

Leo Tolstoy, “How Much Land Does a Man Need?” (recommended by Joanne Kennedy from The Catholic Worker)

Peter Maurin, Easy Essays (recommended by Martha Hennessey from The Catholic Worker. She read aloud the essay, “Wealth Producing Maniacs” from Book 1.)

The Greatest Grid On-Line Exhibit + Interactive Map from Museum of the City of New York

On the Catholic Worker movement:

Dorothy Day, From Union Square to Rome. New York, Arno Press, 1978 c.1938. x, 173p.

Dorothy Day, House of Hospitality. New York, Sheed & Ward, c.1939. xxxvi, 275p.

Dorothy Day, The Long Loneliness: the autobiography of Dorothy Day. San Francisco, Harper & Row, 1981 c.1952. xxiii, 288p.

Nancy Roberts. Dorothy Day and the Catholic Worker. Albany, State University of New York Press, c.1984. 226p.

Murray, Harry. Do Not Neglect Hospitality: the Catholic Worker Movement and the Homeless. Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 1990.viii,285p.

Piehl, Mel. Breaking Bread: The Catholic Worker and the Origin of Catholic Radicalism in America. Philadelphia, Temple University Press, c.1984. 314p.

On gentrification (a small start):

Loretta Lees, Tom Slater, and Elvin Wyly, The Gentrification Reader (Routledge, 2010)

Japonica Brown-Saracino, A Neighborhood That Never Changes: Gentrification, Social Preservation, and the Search for Authenticity (University of Chicago Press, 2009)
 
Suleiman Osman, The Invention of Brownstone Brooklyn (OUP, 2011)
 
Sylvie Tissot, Good Neighbors: Gentrifying Diversity in Boston’s South End (Verso, 2015)
 
Aaron Shkuda, The Lofts of Soho: Gentrification, Art, and Industry in New York, 1950-1980 (Chicago, 2016)
 
Mario Luis Small, Villa Victoria: The Transformation of Social Capital in a Boston Barrio (Chicago, 2004)
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Video: The Last Skyscraper of Its Kind (on the Equitable Building and the 1916 Zoning Ordinance)
 
 
Largest Property Holders in NYC (The Real Deal, September 1, 2018)
 
Great article making use of historical context to clarify a contemporary real estate (land & property) issue: “When Trinity Ruled Over Manhattan” by James Nevius (Curbed, August 22, 2019)
 
Your Professor with Tito Delgado and Frances Golden (Fall 2018)
Frances Golden, Tito Delgado, Becky Amato
 
 

Collectively Produced Resources

Land & Property Glossary

Class-Annotated Analysis of Blackstone’s Commentaries on the Laws of England (1765-1769), “Of Property in General”

Family Feud/Review Questions, March 1, 2019 Class

Last Class Takeaways, May 10, 2019