gentrification
The crazy real estate boom taking over Flatbush Avenue
When Jessi Arrington and Creighton Mershon moved from Dumbo to Prospect Lefferts Gardens this year, the couple weighed two big trade-offs. They could rent a bigger, older walkup in the...
Outer borough business growth is hotter than Manhattan's
Manhattan may be hot, but when it comes to new businesses, the outer boroughs are getting hotter. A new report found that the outer four each saw a significant net...
Massive amounts of trash are attracting rats — and ruining this neighborhood
Yuppies aren’t the only newcomers that locals have to contend with in Vinegar Hill. Construction in and around the Brooklyn Navy Yard is fueling gentrification in the neighborhood — and...
Firenze is proof that the restaurant scene is well-fed
Too many maudlin stories make it sound as though every restaurant in town is closing for one reason or another — usually a supposedly greedy landlord. The many more happy...
Is Newark the new Brooklyn?
When Isabel Livingston opened a shop in Newark’s Teacher’s Village development in 2015, she had no intention of moving there, too. She had grown up in Newark but left some...
Chinatown slowly losing its charm — and its restaurants
The Year of the Rooster could be a wake-up call that Chinatown is steadily, if slowly, changing into something long-time New Yorkers might not recognize. Omens of upheaval to come...
This surprising Deep South town is shedding its gritty past
There are 33 Greenvilles in America, give or take, but the one in South Carolina has far and away received the most media attention of late, having been plagued by...
Restaurants are popping up all over the South Bronx
Creatives priced out of Manhattan and Brooklyn have moved to the South Bronx, one of the city’s final gentrification frontiers — and now a new generation of restaurants is growing...
Brooklyn's population is now rivaling Chicago
The borough that brought us egg creams and man buns will soon surpass the Windy City in population, a new report predicts. The number of people living in Brooklyn has...
These old-school New Yorkers have lived in the same homes for 50 years
Some Big Apple residents bear witness to the old adage "The only constant is change" more than most. These six New Yorkers have lived in their homes for more than...
City redacted bombshell documents linking de Blasio's team to nursing home bungle
The city’s Law Department redacted documents to cover up City Hall’s role in allowing a Lower East Side nursing home to be sold for luxury condos, it was revealed Tuesday....
Living in this Lower East Side building went from costing hundreds to millions
One 130-year-old building on the Lower East Side has been, in turns, a synagogue, a whiskey distillery and a $100-a-month rental apartment. But in May, the four-story edifice at 70...
The NYC nabes where rents are skyrocketing
Perhaps it’s no surprise that the ultratrendy — not to mention pricey — Brooklyn neighborhoods of Williamsburg and Greenpoint have topped a list of New York City’s top-15 gentrifying areas....
Gentrification gone wild: Luxury building forklifts SUV off street
Here’s the shocking moment a construction crew hoisted a Williamsburg family’s SUV off the street to make room for work on a luxury building site. Contractors for Two Trees Management...
The final frontier for NYC's struggling artists
A light-filled apartment building in Mott Haven is one 6 train stop into NYC’s northernmost borough. The ground floor holds the six-year old BronxArtSpace, a gallery dedicated to South Bronx...
Say goodbye to one NYC's last living landmarks
It took more than $1 billion to give us a haunting glimpse of century-ago New York — and, very soon, to obliterate it forever. In a few weeks, the 100-year...
Unmasking the victims and winners of Brooklyn's gentrification
Few New York City real estate topics are more fraught than gentrification and affordable housing — particularly in Brooklyn. Over the past decade, New York’s most populous borough has become...
Hipster-hating vandal scrawls 'die yuppies' at Brooklyn construction site
A vandal apparently irked at the gentrification of a Brooklyn neighborhood broke into a construction site and scrawled into wet cement “Die Yuppies” along with a swastika, cops said. The...
'Do or die' Bed-Stuy is definitely gentrifying
Nadia and Benoit Busseuil’s 2014's arrival in Bedford-Stuyvesant, Brooklyn, is typical for the burgeoning neighborhood. The recently married couple was ready to start a family and on the hunt for an affordable...
The changes coming to Harlem's 125th Street make it a hot spot
The 125th Street of Harlem mythology is fast disappearing. River to river, a whirlwind of new development, redevelopment and “repositioning” is sweeping away old for new. The Apollo Theater, under...