By Matt Coyne 3/01/11 10:23pm

Gentrification Watch

Is Affordable Housing Gentrifying Brooklyn?

Is the city’s public-private affordable housing model—the Community Preservation Corp., a group of 70 banks and insurance companies, in particular—expediting Brooklyn’s gentrification?

The Gotham Gazette seems to think so. The Gazette investigated the city’s publicly available property transaction records and found that since 2007, 65 percent of the $701 million invested in Brooklyn Read More

By Staff 9/26/06 8:30am

Tuesday: 'Green' Carpets, Yards' Yardage, East Harlem Hotness?


Little Miss Brooklyn

  • How big will Atlantic Yards be? Possibly 8% smaller than Forest City Ratner had originally hoped, which makes it a mere 8 million square feet. On the one hand, the cutback is merely a recommendation of the City Planning Commission, which has no tangible power–on the other hand, the developers readily Read More