New York's Soul for Sale: Raising the Rent on Lunch Counters and Counterculture

Benjamin Terrall — 2018-02-13T06:00:00Z

Vanishing New York is Jeremiah Moss's loving chronicle of the neighborhoods, characters, bars, and corner institutions that have disappeared in the accelerated gentrification of the last two decades. There is room to debate what we should be fighting to create, but Moss captures the New York he is fighting to preserve.
When Jeremiah Moss moved to Manhattan from rural New England in the early 1990s at the age of 22, he felt that he had already missed the greatest days of the city's existence –

- Reviews / gentrification, New York, development, displacement, right to the city, nostalgia, Bloomberg, Giuliani, counterculture

New York's de Blasio bargains with FIRE

Tom Waters — 2015-06-16T05:00:00Z

Frantic deal-making over an obscure but costly New York City real-estate tax incentive (421‑a) provides a window into the politics of Mayor Bill de Blasio's attempt to implement a progressive urban policy agenda. The mayor hopes to deliver on campaign promises to combat economic inequality while sustaining growth. But his valuable political relationships with real-estate developers pose a challenge to his bid to bring development and redistribution into the same policy universe. Tom Waters shows

- Debates / housing policy, United States, real estate, New York, affordable housing, 421-a, real-estate industry, New York City housing policy, FIRE, growth coalition, de Blasio administration, Bloomberg

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New York's Soul for Sale: Raising the Rent on Lunch Counters and Counterculture

New York's de Blasio bargains with FIRE