“Gentrification is just the fin above the water,” the San Francisco writer Rebecca Solnit once warned of the changes to her home town. “Below is the rest of the shark.” The shark being a “hollow city” with an economy where “most of us will be poorer, a
Film director Spike Lee railed against gentrification in New York City in an expletive-filled speech this week. Lee grew up in the Fort Greene neighborhood in Brooklyn. His parents still live there. "Why does it take an influx of white New Yorkers in
Filmmaker Spike Lee appeared at Brooklyn's Pratt Institute for an African-American History Month lecture Tuesday night and ended up giving the audience a piece of his mind about the overwhelming gentrification that has
Film director Spike Lee railed against gentrification in New York City in an expletive-filled speech this week. Lee grew up in the Fort Greene neighborhood in Brooklyn. His parents still live there. "Why does it take an influx of white New Yorkers in
So what to make of the director of Do the Right Thing and Clockers using an appearance at a black history month event at the Pratt Institute in Brooklyn to rage against an audience member trying to argue for the benefits of gentrification? Slamming the