With the streets of the Lower East Side reshaping themselves faster than any of us can keep track, it’s easy to become a wistful piner for…
The Gentrification Art Show That Inspires ‘Intentional Awkwardness’
In New York dingy, overpriced studio apartments manage to command bidding wars, while longtime city-dwellers with sweet rent-regulated deals have come to expect landlord harassment. Meanwhile, archaic affordable-housing…
Gentrification Study: NYC Rents Have Risen Highest in Greenpoint/Williamsburg
A new report on the state of the city’s housing released today by NYU’s Furman Center for Real Estate and Urban Policy has a special…
Huitzilli Packs Up Its Guayaberas After Some ‘Not So Great’ Changes in Williamsburg
Huitzilli, a colorful boutique specializing in Mexican clothing and jewelry, is vacating its home of seven years after its building was sold. Emily Cantrell, the shop’s…
Gallery’s ‘Bushwick 200’ List Sparks White-Hot Gentrification Debate
If you thought the season for “top 10” lists was over, think again: a Bushwick art gallery, Fuchs Projects, has stirred up some controversy with…
Protesters Sent a Message to the BK Real Estate Summit: ‘Brooklyn’s Not For Sale!’
Swiping in at the Nassau stop yesterday, I happened to look down to the ground, and instead of spent MetroCards, I found a smattering of small flyers printed…
Lowline Edges Toward Reality, But What Does It Mean For the LES?
“Lower East Side, not for sale!” “Chinatown, not for sale!” These were the chants on the streets of Chinatown two weeks ago, when protesters, huddled under…
In Williamsburg, Tenants Told to Clear Out For Demolition Dig In and Demand Repairs
The two-bedroom apartment that Jesenia Ventura shares with her three young children, her sister, and her mother Amalia Martinez is so run-down that some windows…
Chinatown and LES Residents Rally Against ‘Building From Hell’
Around 250 local residents, business owners and members of the Coalition to Protect Chinatown & The Lower East Side met at the future site of…
Has Carrera’s Taqueria Served Its Last Super Taco?
Cheap-eats lovers, get ready to cry into your napkins: Carrera’s, a small Mexican restaurant located off the Morgan L in Bushwick, may be taking a…