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Bushwick Developer Sells Out, Takes Housing Promises With Him | City Limits

Posted on September 30, 2015 by Neil deMause

When Bushwick community groups announced in January 2014 that Read Properties, owners of the long-derelict Rheingold Brewery site along Flushing Avenue, had agreed to build as many as 200 units of affordable housing as part of the city’s rezoning of … Continue reading →

Posted in Articles, Brooklyn, Development, Housing

What’s in a Name? Tenants Accuse Shamco of Illegal Rent Hikes | City Limits

Posted on September 16, 2015 by Neil deMause

In a city where more than 60 percent of residents are renters and rents are perpetually too damn high, New Yorkers are preconditioned to view their landlords as mustache-twirling cartoon villains. Even the most cynical of apartment dwellers, though, would … Continue reading →

Posted in Articles, Brooklyn, Gentrification, Housing

What Happens to Families Forced Out of Bushwick? (City & State/City Limits)

Posted on May 4, 2015 by Neil deMause

Bushwick has been in the national spotlight of late, the most recent neighborhood to be emblematic of the New Brooklyn of hipster beards and trendy clubs. There’s now an artisanal Bushwick-scented candle you can buy for $81 “scent highlights include … Continue reading →

Posted in Articles, Brooklyn, Development, Gentrification, Housing, Income Inequality

Wary Optimism Greets De Blasio’s Brooklyn Redevelopment Plans (City Limits/Brooklyn Bureau)

Posted on October 17, 2014 by Neil deMause

When the subject of Brooklyn’s hottest neighborhoods comes up, Broadway Junction seldom enters the conversation. Named for the tangle of J and L train tracks that pass overhead, Broadway Junction is less a neighborhood than the absence of one: a … Continue reading →

Posted in Articles, Brooklyn, Development, Housing

Brooklyn™ vs Brooklyn (Kickstarter Update)

Posted on June 18, 2014 by Neil deMause

It’s way too easy to wander down a street or two in Brooklyn especially if it’s, say, Franklin Avenue and get the impression, “This borough is really taking off!” It helps if your idea of “taking off” involves Asian fusion … Continue reading →

Posted in Books, Brooklyn, Shameless Self-Promotion

Flea or Flee? Food Fairs and Music Fests Are Great Until They’re Not (Village Voice)

Posted on May 21, 2014 by Neil deMause

To the list of “nobody goes there, it’s too crowded” New Yorker lore, add another entry: Don’t go to the Williamsburg waterfront on Saturdays. That’s when, April through November, the foodie heaven known as Smorgasburg descends on East River State … Continue reading →

Posted in Articles, Brooklyn, Parks

Launch Sequence (Village Voice)

Posted on January 8, 2014 by Neil deMause

When companies that got their start on college campuses come to mind, the universities in question are typically the big-name schools that bespeak tech royalty: Stanford spawned Google, Harvard launched Facebook, MIT begat Dropbox. Locally, NYU has been the big … Continue reading →

Posted in Articles, Brooklyn, Education, Tax policy

Why Do Some Parks Suffer? It’s Complicated (City Limits)

Posted on July 15, 2013 by Neil deMause

As the U.S. Tennis Association prepared to submit plans this spring for another expansion of its 35-year-old National Tennis Center in Flushing Meadows-Corona Park, some members of Queens Community Board 8 cried foul. “You wouldn’t do this to Central Park, … Continue reading →

Posted in Articles, Brooklyn, New York City, Parks

As Sandy Relief Efforts Fade, Crisis Far From Over (City Limits)

Posted on January 31, 2013 by Neil deMause

On Neptune Avenue in Coney Island, the throngs that surrounded the Coney Island Gospel Assembly’s relief site in November have mostly dissipated. The mobile medical office—a gift from a pastor in Joplin, Missouri—remains in place, and a Red Cross truck … Continue reading →

Posted in Articles, Brooklyn, Hurricane Sandy

Grassroots Groups Have Taken Over Sandy Relief (City Limits)

Posted on November 13, 2012 by Neil deMause

As with so many roads in the outer boroughs of New York City right now, the drive into Gerritsen Beach, on one of the less fashionable fringes of coastal Brooklyn, abruptly changes once one hits the flood zone. Suddenly, traffic … Continue reading →

Posted in Articles, Brooklyn, Hurricane Sandy

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