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Brownsville Community Gears up for Pre-Gentrification Plan

The pre-gentrification plan includes goals to increase affordable housing and sets expectations for community-focused economic development. photo credit: Nextcity.
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New Documentary is 'Breaking Down the BQX,' the Gentrification Express

In the 'Gentrification Express: Breaking Down the BQX' filmmakers show how supporters advocating for the Brooklyn-Queens Connector are behind rapidly developing properties along the proposed route image credit: Village Voice The new documentary " Gen
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What Gentrification Means for Black Homeowners

What Gentrification Means for Black Homeowners

Nostalgia isn't enough to keep Thomas Holley, 74, in the Crown Heights brownstone he has lived in for more than 58 years. He got married in that home and raised his children there.
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Gentrification in Bed-Stuy: 'Here Comes the Neighborhood!'

Gentrification in Brooklyn Photo: globalfusionproductions.com If there was ever a more polarizing topic in Bedford-Stuyvesant these days, it is the subject of gentrification.
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Crown Heights Hardware Store Fights for Survival Against Gentrification

Gentrification, that continues to plague Brooklyn, takes a toll on small business owner Mohammed Kamara.
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Street Art and Gentrification Become Strange Bedfellows in Bushwick

How much has the proliferation of the street art in Bushwick played a role in the acceleration of the neighborhood's gentrification? Hotel RL in Bushwick displays the blending of art and commerce.
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Town Hall Discussion Digs at the Roots of Gentrification

"Brooklyn for Sale: The Price of Gentrification" Town Hall Meeting at BRIC.
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Is Spike Lee Partially to Blame for Brooklyn's Gentrification?

"I may get in trouble for saying this, but I tend to tease Spike about the fact that he's the one that caused for a lot of the gentrification here in Brooklyn, because he put Brooklyn on the map in a big way, and showed everyone how great and hip and
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Landlords, Eviction and Gentrification in Brooklyn

Me in the kitchen with my dogs as puppies Photo: Rod Morrison By guest blogger Karen Malpede After nearly 24 years as good tenants, sometimes even friends, our landlady has chosen to take us to housing court in order to evict us from the Clinton Hill
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BRIC to Hold Town Hall Meeting on Gentrification

Photo courtesy BRIC Join Brooklyn Independent Media on Wednesday, January 28, from 7:00pm - 9:00pm, for a live broadcast of their town hall entitled, Brooklyn for Sale: The Price of Gentrification.
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