Apparently, a White man who is a "fighter" for a living discovered and settled what we know as Brooklyn.
Where is New Orleans 10 years later, take a look at this infographic to see how Hurricane Katrina affected the beloved city.
If you’ve been a New York City resident for some time, you’ve likely noticed how your once empty subway car is still packed with people, even after crossing that once undesirable Manhattan/Brooklyn line. The L train doesn’t empty out after Bedford Avenue. The G train, the ignored ghost train of the city, now boasts a […]
A lawyer has come forward to claim responsibility for the “exclusively for white people” stickers posted in several Austin, Texas businesses during the city’s popular South By Southwest (SXSW) festival last week. In a video posted last Thursday, Adam Reposa says that the words on the stickers are not the problem, but the fact that East Austin […]
Brooklyn was recently found to be the second most expensive place to live in the U.S., right after Manhattan. It is, in a sense, ground zero for gentrification. The issue has been a hot topic in recent years. It reached critical mass weeks ago when Spike Lee, a Brooklyn native, spoke out against gentrification in […]
I’ve spent my entire career as a civil rights activist and anti-violence advocate. I hear from folks all over the country about how fed-up they are—how much they want change—but they don’t know where to start. It’s not enough just to be informed, we’ve got to work tirelessly to do better. With the “The Lookout,” I’ll […]
Actor Anthony Mackie questioned the sincerity of renowned filmmaker Spike Lee‘s concern over gentrification in Brooklyn, pointing out that the Red Hook director no longer even lives in the borough. RELATED: Spike Lee Unleashes Fiery Rant On Gentrification In New York [VIDEO] Spike Lee On Tyler Perry: ‘One Day We Might Work Together’ In a sit-down interview […]
Spike Lee (pictured) and his criticism of the gentrification of New York, more specifically Brooklyn, was one of the most-buzzed about topics in the news yesterday. After his appearance as a guest lecturer at the Pratt Institute this week where he railed against how much the city has changed, Brooklyn residents have lashed out at the famed […]
Spike Lee (pictured) has spoken at length in times past about how his beloved borough of Brooklyn has changed over the years due to gentrification. Last night, the director unleashed a fiery rant about New York’s rapidly changing landscape during a talk and was frank about his disgust at people of color being pushed out. RELATED: Spike […]
Harlem is in the midst of gentrification. All of the new additions to the historic neighborhood have left its residents torn. While some people believe that the influx of large corporations in the neighborhood is beneficial, longtime residents miss what it used to be. In the second installment of their Neighborhood Crashers series, Curbed met […]
NEW YORK — While the Notorious B.I.G.’s former neighborhood of Clinton Hill, Brooklyn has gone through a great deal of gentrification, the “Notorious PHd,” fights to make sure the Bronx doesn’t go the way of Clinton Hill too. View video here The Notorious PHd is the rap name of Fordham Professor, Mark Naison, who uses […]
NEW YORK — The Bedford-Stuyvesant neighborhood of Brooklyn, New York City, a historically Black neighborhood famously depicted in Spike Lee’s “Do The Right Thing,” is becoming more and more mixed due to a high influx of whites moving in. The white migration has made rent prices higher and forced many African Americans to move from […]
