Two new articles about gentrification and environmental activism in Greenpoint, appearing in The International Journal of Justice and Sustainability, argue that the neighborhood is challenging the typical narrative that gentrifying neighborhoods will inevitably force out all long-term residents to make way for a gold coast of newly arriving gentrifiers.
The articles, by Winifred Curran (Department of Geography, DePaul University) and Trina Hamilton (Department of Geography, SUNY University at Buffalo) advocates a “just green enough” idea that “makes room for…
Great article. I am extremely interested in reading the rest of the report.
I would like to hear more because a lot of the stuff that’s being discussed here that doesn’t feel fully processed. If real-estate prices keep going up, then the original neighbors are forced out. That’s an economic fact, THE key component of gentrification. The examples sprinkled in here are great instances of historical activism in G-point, but it’s as the writers take it for granted that the only people in the world who ever agitated for a cleaner community were upper-middle class people, and that’s just not true. So any article tackling this would have to address how people on the lower rungs of the socioeconomic ladder are expected to hang on to their roots here as the area continues to rise in terms of real-estate prices.