"Yay gentrification!" "People hate who I am because I am supposedly this evil, rich guy who is ruining people's lives and evicting them. But I am just someone who planned and worked. I'm not like these people, who are all Spike Lee (pictured) has spoken at length in times past about how his beloved borough … Read more
“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 … Read more
Addressing a crowd at the Pratt Institute in the Clinton Hill neighborhood of Brooklyn, filmmaker Spike Lee unleashed an epic rant over the gentrification of predominately ethnic neighborhoods of New York City. According to Speaking Tuesday night in Brooklyn, blocks away from his company headquarters and his father's apartment, Spike Lee went off on how … Read more