Tag: Gentrification
The folks at Above Average have created an apt parody of strategy board game Settlers of Catan, mocking the gentrifiers who are effectively Columbus-ing Brooklyn. Instead of building communities with resources of lumber, wool, grain, brick and ore, players must conquer existing lands with coffee, bicycles, vinyl, skinny jeans and kale. The first person to […]
The March/April issue of Luxury Listings NYC has an article about the supposed Brooklynification of the affluent North Fork of Long Island, and it is a doozy of a moronic “Is ___ the New Brooklyn?”/ “the hipsters are coming!” trend piece. The article is pointlessly titled “Blurred lines,” which tells you pretty much everything you […]
In 1967, the Yippies tried to levitate the Pentagon as an act of protest against the Vietnam War. The levitation itself was unsuccessful, but it did result in Norman Mailer’s classic book The Armies of the Night. On Tuesday, inspired by the Yippies, musical collective Talibam! attempted to levitate Vice Media’s office off its foundation […]
Less than a day after it was reported that a street artist replaced a “White Castle” sign with “White Hassle,” the clever work has been taken down. Brooklyn-based interventionist Gabe Specter changed the letters on the vacant building’s front with his own poignant ones, Gothamist reported. View this post on Instagram A post shared by […]
The months-long demolition project taking down the 132-year-old Domino Sugar Factory is almost complete. In April, ANIMAL explored the inside of the abandoned refinery, and in December we returned to observe the entrails of the building that at one point housed the largest sugar refinery in the world. The sight is surreal: the letters from […]
Manhattan’s neighborhoods have long been shaped by the music its inhabitants create, and that element of history inspired designer John Davies to see what the topography of the island would look like if each neighborhood were represented by a song. Using laser cut perspex, Davies chose an iconic song for each neighborhood and made a model […]
Just in time for the CBGB Festival‘s zombie walk through various NYC music venues, you can pretend the iconic club never closed by checking out a re-creation on an East Village rooftop, tonight. James and Karla Murray specialize in documenting the ever-changing landscape of New York. Now they’ve temporarily installed convincing remakes of three iconic East […]
Rory Denis has lived at 338 E. 6th St. for 44 years and he’s not leaving now, despite his landlord’s pleas. “He’s just trying to stop the inevitable,” says Esteban Vazquez, the contractor in charge of renovating the building. “I was born here, I’ll die here,” Denis tells the Post. “My yellow toenails are going to be embedded […]
Tenants of Harlem’s Riverton Houses, which include state assemblyman Keith L. T. Wright, are suing the property’s owners for $10 million over illegal rent hikes. The lawsuit alleges that CWCapital Asset Management and Compass Rock Real Estate have been overcharging residents as part of their plan to force them out of their rent regulated homes and secure more profitable renters: “It’s all […]
The new documentary It Took 50 Years: Francis Goldin And The Struggle For Cooper Square tells a story that New Yorkers today need to hear. Francis Goldin, the now 90-year-old literary agent, led the fight against an urban renewal plan posed by the city in 1959 which would have entirely destroyed a neighborhood in lower […]
