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From Bedford–Stuyvesant, African Americans have since moved into the surrounding areas of Brooklyn, such as East New York, Crown Heights, Brownsville, and Fort Greene. Since the early 2000s, Bedford-Stuyvesant has undergone significant gentrification, resulting in a dramatic demographic shift combined with increasing rent and real estate prices.
The Bed-Stuy Aquarium (also known as the Hancock Street Bed-Stuy Aquarium) is a makeshift goldfish pond located on a sidewalk in the Bedford-Stuyvesant, Brooklyn neighborhood of New York City. The pond, formed by a puddle from a leaky fire hydrant, garnered attention from locals and the press beginning at the time of its creation in August 2024 ...
Bed-Stuy How a watermelon stand stands strong against tides of gentrification. About 60 small goldfish, all orange or orange-and-black, swam peacefully in the Bed-Stuy Aquarium on Friday September ...
Many residents of Ocean Hill consider themselves residents of Bedford-Stuyvesant. Due to gentrification, many real estate developers and the community board use the name Bedford-Stuyvesant/Ocean Hill or just Bedford-Stuyvesant, to avoid the neighborhood being confused with neighboring Brownsville to the southeast.
To address the displacement of longtime residents by gentrification, Adams held a series of town halls in Bedford–Stuyvesant and East Flatbush to investigate cases of tenant harassment, and also organized legal clinics in East New York, Prospect Lefferts Gardens, and Sunset Park to provide free legal assistance to tenants. [36] [37] [38] [39]
Bedford-Stuyvesant in New York, traditionally the largest black community in the US The Glockenbach district of Ludwigsvorstadt-Isarvorstadt in Munich, Germany Phillip Clay's two-stage model of gentrification places artists as prototypical stage one or "marginal" gentrifiers.
Williamsburg is a neighborhood in the New York City borough of Brooklyn, bordered by Greenpoint to the north; Bedford–Stuyvesant to the south; Bushwick and East Williamsburg to the east; and the East River to the west. It was an independent city until 1855, when it was annexed by Brooklyn; at that time, the spelling was changed from ...
During his residency, he worked on the project "Griots in the Stuy" using the West African oral tradition of griots to create a narrative of residents' personal stories, photography and a parallel narrative around gentrification in the Bedford-Stuyvesant neighborhood of Brooklyn. [10]