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• Istanbul struggles with gentrification

  
  PRI's The World — Authority: 611
  Download audio file (1109097.mp3) Download MP3 Some of Istanbul’s old neighborhoods are struggling to modernize. The Turkish government is razing buildings to make way for new homes. But in the process, some argue, the original character of the neighborhoods is being destroyed, along with the fabric of the ...
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• Premium Sneaker Boutique Coming to Tompkins

  
  Bed-Stuy Blog — Authority: 495
  Looks like sneakerheads will no longer have to travel far to get their kicks–a new “premium sneaker boutique” called Sole Survivor is coming to Tompkins Avenue between Putnam and Jefferson. It will be occupying the space next door to Common Grounds Coffee House and is one block south of the newly opened pastry ...
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• Latest report from Glasgow

  
  BNP Scotland — Authority: 123
  Glasgow Correspondent – Carrick Crawford In the morning Charlie Baillie and his team visited Royston. We managed to leaflet most of the area including the high rise flats. Royston was previously known as Garngad and is still known as such by residents with a familial link to the area. It is notable for its large ...
  3 days ago

• Gentrification Reducing Downward Mobility?

  
  In Shaw (an historically gentrified blog) — Authority: 120
  I really wish the findings of a Pew Trust report (PDF) regarding economic mobility was a little clearer. The best I could figure, before they threw in the math equation, which totally lost me, is that when a neighborhood decreases poverty a childs chance of heading downward as he/she grows up decreases. Yeah, there ...
  5 days ago

• Recession benefits some businesses

  
  Queens Crap — Authority: 591
  From the NY Times : Less than two years ago, the Brooklyn Brewery found itself in a bind that had squeezed many companies out of New York. It wanted to expand, but the rapid gentrification of its neighborhood, in Williamsburg, Brooklyn, had pushed rents beyond what it could afford. That was before the recession ...
  6 days ago

• Quoth the Raven: Williamsburg Sucks: In literary journal n+1, Elizabeth Gumport...

  
  Curbed — Authority: 671
  In literary journal n+1 , Elizabeth Gumport takes a lengthy look at four decades of Brooklyn gentrification novelists and the characteristics that separate them . But one thing that unites them is Brooklyn nostalgia, which dates back to, whoa, Edgar Allen Poe! For reals: "The average new Brooklyn home, he ...
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• Harlem and NYC Don’t Vote Until You Read This

  
  Blog-AroundHarlem.com — Authority: 416
  I’ve been thinking about writing this blog post for months. Honestly, there were sooooo many reasons why I think you should vote for Bill Thompson for Mayor of NYC . Many of those reasons are emotional/reactionary and yet still valid. What’s been interesting about this race is that many New Yorkers don’t feel ...
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• Orchard Street Still in a Pickle?: Its the last month for Lower...

  
  Curbed — Authority: 671
  Its the last month for Lower East Side institution Guss Pickles on Orchard Street, as the sour salesmen gradually move the operation out to Brooklyn . Bowery Boogie hears rumblings of Guss replacement: Mother In Laws Kimchi , which declined to comment when contracted by BowBoog. Would be appropriate given the LESs ...
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• Us

  
  NOBODY PASSES, darling — Authority: 129
  Maybe we did smoke in the kitchen -- I just keep picturing it. With the window open. I don’t want to edit the past to make the future clearer, does anyone remember? Last night, in my endless quest to find somewhere to dance, I went to the bar right on the corner where we used to live, the bar that was originally a ...
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• The Brooklyn What Runs for Brooklyn Borough President

  
  Lucid Culture — Authority: 471
  With election day 2009 approaching, and no viable option on the ballot for those who are dissatisfied with Marty Markowitz, The Brooklyn What wishes to make formal its write-in campaign for the office of Borough President of Brooklyn, NY. The local, Brooklyn raised punk rock band has been running informally since ...
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• Edith Macefield’s Home in Seattle. There’s a really...

  
  VERY LOUD — Authority: 138
  Edith Macefield’s Home in Seattle. There’s a really great article about her here , which details her resistance to selling her 108 year old home to the developer which made the condos around her. (photo: beatnikside , more at Extraordinarily Stubborn Nail Houses )
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• Loyalty

  
  NOBODY PASSES, darling — Authority: 129
  Garrett was someone who I definitely didn’t trust. He would follow people around, mostly dykes, first it was Angie who was one of Laurie’s friends, and then Laurie, and Laurie told me I was being judgmental because I didn’t like the way Garrett would become whoever he was around. We’d had this conversation ...
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• Dreams deferred

  
  Hawthorne Street : Prospect Lefferts, Brooklyn — Authority: 495
  Looks like we spoke too soon . The Associated is no longer stocking Ciao Bella sorbets. On the bright side, Ben & Jerrys is on sale...
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• What do you think about this vision for the DTES?

  
  Carnegie Community Action Project — Authority: 112
  CCAP organized 3 planning days with 25-40 DTES residents in the last 4 months. It was attended by residents who live in social housing, hotels, outside and in shelters. We wanted to come up with a draft vision for the neighbourhood as a starting point and take it out to some open community [...]
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• CCAP accuses city of erasing the DTES and the city responds

  
  Carnegie Community Action Project — Authority: 112
  The last Carnegie Newsletter had a copy of a letter sent by CCAP to the mayor. The title was “Downtown Eastside Erased from City Maps.”Here are some selections from the CCAP letter:“This may seem like a small quibbly thing for you, but for Downtown Eastside Residents, it is a big thing. The City has been [...]
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• Join CCAP gentrification tour

  
  Carnegie Community Action Project — Authority: 112
  Walking TourSites Of Empowerment & GentrificationTour with CCAPSaturday October 31, 11:30am–1pmStart at the Carnegie Centre front steps and visit some of the best loved places in the area according to the stories of low-income DTES residents.Contemplate how these key sites give us clues as to how to build a ...
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• Don’t rely on outsiders to organize your community

  
  Carnegie Community Action Project — Authority: 112
  A famous community organizer came to the Downtown Eastside on Sept. 25th. But guess what? He didn’t tell us how to organize our community. His name is John McKnight and his official title is Professor of Education and Social Policy and Co-Director, Asset-Based Community Development Institute at North-western ...
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• Residents suggest solutions to Downtown Eastside problems

  
  Carnegie Community Action Project — Authority: 112
  Published Oct 24, Jean Swanson, Vancouver Sun Blog. Edited for the NL by wp: Last month I wrote about our mapping process. The DTES, it turns out, has lots of good qualities like acceptance, empathy, 5000 units of good social housing, needed and appreciated services, and a sense of community that other ...
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• What Should The Church Do With Gentrification?

  
  The Urban Loft — Authority: 123
  The last time I checked my memory banks I haven’t heard any message at a church gathering dealing with the church’s response to gentrification. While many probably don’t know what the term is they’ve seen what it is about if they’ve driven through a city. Simply put, gentrification is “the buying and ...
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• Haunted House….

  
  Lady Nyo's Weblog — Authority: 125
  1870s house....now abandoned...foreclosed. I have watched this old house since the early ’70’s.  It’s in Adair Park, close to our neighborhood, in fact only one neighborhood over.  The vast majority of houses were built by a builder (Adair) in the early 20’s, though there are a good deal of houses from ...
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