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

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.

Photo: Mariah Espada. Rebecca Rios, a club regular and organizer for La Sala De Pepe, a Latino New York art space, says gentrification has erased spaces that intentionally offer community — but ...

Buddies Coffee co-owner Rachel Nieves, a Puerto Rican native New Yorker, posted her video on Tuesday, sharing her shock over ...

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

When an older, lower-income neighborhood is being upgraded and renovated by a wave of young, wealthy homeowners and investors, gentrification has typically begun. Some people say that’s a good ...

Rachel Nieves is the co-owner of Buddies Coffee, one of the few and newest Puerto Rican-owned coffee shops in Williamsburg.

Rachel Rose, owner of Brooklyn coffee shop Buddies Coffee, shares an emotional plea to keep her shop as the landlord raises ...

More information: Zhe Zhang et al, Gentrification and crime in Buffalo, New York, PLOS ONE (2024). DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0302832 ...