The Invention of a Neighborhood
In the early years of Brooklyn’s gentrification, a 1977 New Yorker piece by Jervis Anderson captured the process in a freeze-frame. Those he interviewed were my neighbors.
Source: newyorker.com
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In the early years of Brooklyn’s gentrification, a 1977 New Yorker piece by Jervis Anderson captured the process in a freeze-frame. Those he interviewed were my neighbors.
With its desirable 19th-century rowhouses and convenient subway access, the neighborhood is both homey and worldly.