About a month ago, comedian Saidah Belo-Osagie posted the latest video in her TikTok series, “girl who’s secretly happy her ...

Rachel Nieves posted an emotional TikTok about the threats to her business. Then the whole neighborhood started lining up outside.

The following is an excerpt adapted from Defying Displacement: Urban Recomposition and Social War (IAS/AK Press, 2024).

The 5Boro Institute just released an issues-focused survey asking 3,000 New Yorkers about the most important challenges ...

When Jacob Riis published How the Other Half Lives in 1890, New York City’s Lower East Side was the epicenter of American tenement life. At one point, almost three hundred thousand people were ...

As much as new buildings and scenes speak to the gentrification of New York City, so too do the photographs of people, many of whom are now long gone, having since died, grown up, or moved away.

Buddies Coffee co-owner Rachel Nieves, a Puerto Rican native New Yorker, posted her video on Tuesday, sharing her shock over being told that due to a rent hike she couldn’t afford, her lease was going ...

NEW YORK CITY (WABC) -- For one coffee shop owner in Brooklyn ... business to another location when she heard about a potential rent hike and neighborhood gentrification. "It's just my hard work, and ...

During a drive to the Historic Lyric Theater last week, I spotted a young white woman walking nonchalantly down Northwest 8th ...

Because the ice won't be back until the fall, here are your afternoon links: Clubstaurants in a city of stayer-inners, hot ...