Category: Critical Musings
StoryMap of State-led Changes in Long Island City
“Change” has come to define Long Island City, and increasingly Western Queens, as new buildings – and land values – go up, and working-class tenants, small manufacturing and businesses, and independents artists are pushed out. The City and its agencies often describe these changes in relation to trends, as though…
Demand For Land in East New York & Cypress Hills
[caption id="attachment_576" align="aligncenter" width="500"] Image Source: MMZach[/caption] SEPT 2016: Whether you live in New York City or not, you are probably aware that the real estate market is hot. In recent decades, housing prices have been rising citywide, with some neighborhoods seeing dramatic spikes in housing costs. These spikes are often related to a…
Hidden Histories: On Ferguson, and our History of “Equality”
Before you read my reaction, I feel the need to situate myself within this discussion. I write as a White woman born of a working-lower middle class family who grew up in a small town in the exact center of CT. I am now a graduate student in Environmental Psychology…
Popular Disruption | People’s Climate March
On Sunday September 21, 2014 nearly 400,000 people gathered along the west side of Central Park to march through New York City, the financial and corporate capital of the world, to tell our world leaders it was time - in fact more so, that it had been time -…