Neil deMause

"Surprisingly levelheaded" —Publishers Weekly

Secondary menu

Skip to primary content
Skip to secondary content
  • About Neil
  • Articles
    • Book Reviews
    • Boycotts
    • Civil Rights
      • Gay rights
    • Computers
    • Consumer Affairs
    • Convention Centers
    • Culture Jamming
    • Dead People
    • Development
      • Coney Island
    • Drug Policy
    • Earthquakes
    • Economics
      • Big Business
      • Corporate Subsidies
      • Credit cards
      • Gentrification
      • Globalization
      • Income Inequality
      • Job Creation
      • Labor
      • Microfinance
      • Shopping
      • Small Business
      • Tax policy
      • The Great Recession
      • Welfare and Poverty
    • Education
      • Student Debt
    • Electricity
    • Environment
      • Climate Change
      • Hurricanes
        • Hurricane Gustav
        • Hurricane Sandy
    • Food
    • Government
      • Antitrust
      • Bad Government
      • Electoral Politics
      • Good government
      • Infrastructure
      • Obama Administration
      • Trumpism
    • Health Care
    • Housing
    • Immigration
    • Long Island
    • Media Crit
    • Media Industry
    • Music
    • New York City
      • Bronx
      • Brooklyn
      • Queens
    • Olympics
    • Op-eds
    • Parks
    • Public health
    • Race and Racism
    • Redevelopment
    • Reproductive Rights
    • Rich People
    • Security Theater
    • Sports
      • Baseball
      • Basketball
      • Football
      • Hockey
      • Olympics
      • Payoff Pitch
      • Soccer
      • Stadiums and Arenas
      • Super Bowl
      • Ticket Prices
    • Traffic and Transit
      • Commuter Rail
      • Highways
      • Subways
    • Trivia
    • Trumpism
    • TV
    • Violence
    • Violence Against Women
    • War and Peace
  • Books
  • Field of Schemes
  • The Brooklyn Wars
  • How I Escaped My Uncertain Fate

Main menu

Skip to primary content
Skip to secondary content

Category Archives: New York City

Post navigation

← Older posts
Newer posts →

Never Forget — Madison Square Garden Hasn’t Paid Property Taxes in Over 30 Years | Village Voice

Posted on January 26, 2016 by Neil deMause

Today’s Madison Square Garden (born 1968) is now the oldest arena in both the NBA and NHL, but it almost didn’t make it to its twentieth birthday. In 1982, noting the flurry of sports teams then moving to New Jersey … Continue reading →

Posted in Articles, Development, New York City, Stadiums and Arenas

As It Loses Money, Brooklyn’s Barclays Center Is Pretty Much an Epic Train Wreck | Village Voice

Posted on January 7, 2016 by Neil deMause

Russian billionaire Mikhail Prokhorov, who already owned 80 percent of the Brooklyn Nets and 45 percent of the Barclays Center where they play, completed his full set by buying the remaining shares of those two items from developer Bruce Ratner … Continue reading →

Posted in Articles, Basketball, Brooklyn, Stadiums and Arenas

Test Your New York Knowledge With the 2015 Village Voice News Quiz | Village Voice (with Jackson Connor)

Posted on January 2, 2016 by Neil deMause

Like most years in New York City, 2015 was a bit of an odd bird. The Mets reached the World Series on the shoulders of a player who earlier in the year was pilloried for his controversial comments. There was … Continue reading →

Posted in Articles, New York City, Trivia

As Industry City Promises a New Sunset Park, Some Residents Fight to Maintain the Old One | City Limits

Posted on October 27, 2015 by Neil deMause

On a recent Saturday afternoon on the Sunset Park waterfront, the Industry City warehouse complex was a hive of activity. On the first floor, the food court bustled with visitors scarfing down chicken tinga tacos and gourmet cookies. One floor … Continue reading →

Posted in Articles, Brooklyn, Development, Small Business

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 the Summer of ‘Desnudas’ Taught Us About Tabloids, de Blasio, and Who Really Runs New York | Village Voice

Posted on September 22, 2015 by Neil deMause

New York may have recovered nicely from some of the issues that beset it a generation ago — violent crime, large swaths of the city being on fire pretty much 24/7 — but it still has its problems. There’s the … Continue reading →

Posted in Articles, Media Crit, New York City

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

The Gentrifier’s Guide: Art Is Long, Leases Are Short | Village Voice

Posted on August 25, 2015 by Neil deMause

Tamara Zahaykevich is one of the many New Yorkers who have found themselves both gentrifier and gentrified, as the front lines have gradually shifted. “I’ve been in New York since 1996, and since then I’ve moved my apartment ten times, … Continue reading →

Posted in Articles, Gentrification, New York City, Small Business

At Old Rheingold Plant, a Battle Brews | Village Voice

Posted on August 25, 2015 by Neil deMause

The former Rheingold brewery site in northwest Bushwick was set to be a perfect flash point between the families who’d rebuilt the neighborhood after the fires of the 1970s and the newcomers who’d begun settling there in the Great Williamsburg … Continue reading →

Posted in Articles, Gentrification, Housing, New York City

The Gentrifier’s Guide to Not Being an Asshole | Village Voice

Posted on August 25, 2015 by Neil deMause

If anyone needed a perfect Rorschach test for 21st-century gentrification angst, it showed up this summer on Slate. The website created an “Are You a Gentrifier?” calculator that promised a simple yes/no answer. The calculator itself was fairly ham-fisted — … Continue reading →

Posted in Articles, Gentrification, Housing, New York City

Post navigation

← Older posts
Newer posts →
Tweets by @neildemause
Powered by WordPress :: NomNom by Zeaks
© 1970-2019