Gentrification
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“Coming Apart” – Harper’s Magazine
The term we commonly use for what is happening in the Mission is “gentrification.” But the changes at hand are taking place on a far greater scale, and are connected to a nationwide reorganization of… Continue reading
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Drag queens: Life as Vocation in spite of gentrification
Another wonderful find by my Buddy-Friend-Guy, Christopher… For his series, Beautiful by Night, Hosking documents the lives of three senior drag queens Donna Personna, Collette LeGrande and Olivia Hart, performers at aunt Charlie’s Lounge, the very last gay bar in… Continue reading
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Policing for Wealth
For Bratton to cite changes in gentrified Williamsburg and Fort Greene as justification for a focus on minor crimes means the strategy is about something other than the reduction of crime: Its about the reduction of the perception of crime.… Continue reading
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