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Pioneering Williamsburg craft beer bar priced out of neighborhood it once helped gentrify
Spuyten Duyvil will hold its final last call on April 21 after more than 20 years on Metropolitan Avenue and Havemeyer Street in Williamsburg, co-owner Joe Carroll told The Post...
Why New York City needs 'organic' gentrification
Unlike upscale outer borough nabes like Williamsburg, the Ocean Hill district is gentrifying slowly and with purpose. And this will make it far longer-lasting.
Rent control 'shabbifying' New York's housing as owners feel the squeeze
The Rent Guidelines Board has backed off rent increases of as much as 16% for the city’s 900,000-plus rent-regulated apartments.
Mexico City residents angered by influx of Americans speaking English, gentrifying area: report
An influx of Californians and other Americans has made its way to Mexico City, angering some locals who say they are gentrifying the area, according to a report.
Mayor Adams, you can't equate gentrification with slavery
Mayor Eric Adams needs to learn that the nonsense he could spout to select audiences as Brooklyn beep won’t fly in higher office.
Sorry, Mayor Adams: Gentrification is nothing like slavery — in fact, it's about freedom
Mayor Eric Adams was right to honor the memory of Seneca Village, the community of free blacks that once stood on part of the site used to create Central Park.
Creepy new 'Candyman' movie indicts gentrification as the real horror
Who can take a sunrise and sprinkle it with ... dread? The new "Candyman," from the team behind "Get Out" and "Us," resurrects a horror franchise for a creepy exploration...
Brooklyn's white population surges as black residents exit
Kings County led the city's massive population growth over the past decade with a 9.2 percent jump — higher than any other borough, according to data released by the U.S....
Quaint village of New Hope is getting a celebrity-stuffed makeover
Bohemia is giving way to big spenders and the Pennsylvania hamlet of 2,500 residents now attracts stars like Gigi Hadid, Leonardo DiCaprio and Tina Fey
Portland's rage-addicted radicals don't care about facts, just excuse to riot
The family whose imminent eviction inspired Portland protesters to create a new armed “autonomous zone” turns out to be living in another home they own nearby. Could there be a...
Seattle BLM protesters demand white people ‘give up' their homes
A group of protesters in Seattle marched through a residential neighborhood this week demanding that white residents give up their homes, dramatic video shows.
Seattle businesses looted, defaced with 'gentrifier' graffiti
Rioters in Seattle busted out windows of a pot shop and scrawled “gentrifier” on it outside, according to a report. A group of 150 people gathered late Wednesday at Cal...
Locals livid over 'rigged' development in Flushing Creek, Queens
A $2 billion development along toxic Flushing Creek will pollute the neighborhood with gentrification, critics say. Affordable housing activists, unions and mom-and-pop shops have packed public hearings on the waterfront...
'Candyman' trailer: Jordan Peele's remake mixes gore with gentrification
The urban legend of horror is back: The first trailer for Jordan Peele's revamp of the 1992 cult classic "Candyman" dropped Thursday. Scored with a creepy altered version of Destiny's...
Save our city: Stop making it so damn hard to build
Everybody knows there’s a “housing crisis.” But if the city is ever to generate affordable new housing in meaningful numbers, its process for reviewing rezoning proposals — the seven-month purgatory...
The 'winners and losers' of NYC's proposed property tax plan
"There are going to be winners and losers," said Marc Shaw, chair of a commission that released the preliminary report on property tax reform Thursday after nearly two years of...
Why New York City should embrace — not shun — people from Ohio
During his Monday Martin Luther King Jr. Day speech, as he prepared to stage a mayoral run, Brooklyn Borough President Adams took a swipe at Midwestern interlopers to the city.
Corey Johnson slams Eric Adams for 'go back to Iowa' rant
City Council Speaker Corey Johnson rebuked Brooklyn Borough President Eric Adams on Wednesday for telling out-of-state transplants to “go back” to the Midwest. “The young person who moved here from...
Bkly'n Beep Eric Adams shows why he's unfit to be mayor of New York
Brooklyn Borough President Eric Adams’ race-tainted remarks (on Martin Luther King Jr. Day, no less!) are strong evidence that he’s unfit to be mayor. Adams accused out-of-towners who move into...
Brooklyn prez Adams panned for telling new city arrivals 'go back to Iowa'
A Queens lawmaker Tuesday ripped Brooklyn Borough President Eric Adams for calling on city gentrifiers to "go back" to Iowa and Ohio, while statistics show that hardly any Big Apple...