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So who is getting off the L Train?
Very interesting look on gentrification,race and class. Read and discuss using the comments under this post.
Developer Read Property Group is seeking to build ten new buildings at the former site of the Rheingold Brewery in Bushwick. The buildings would contain 947 units and likely top out at eight stories… Activist Phil DePaolo told the Post, “We call it putting 20 pounds of shit in a 10-pound bag.
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The L train is connected to Manhattan, the island from which even next neighborhoods still ultimately derive their nextness, but in the case of Bushwick, the L train is the train that connects it to past next neighborhoods — i.e., the Lower East Side and Williamsburg.
A Village Voice article about Bushwick. Very Interesting read.
New York Magazine article on the L train in relation to gentrification. Click the picture to the link.
L-Ification
The L train is pushing hipster civilization ever deeper into Brooklyn. A quest to find the new edge of gentrification.
Riding the L train in New York City, one notices how drastically the race demographic changes at every stop. There are always some outliers, but for the most part, you can predict who will be getting off at what stop by the color of their skin and/or what their clothes look like. We notice it, but we don’t talk about it. Is this a sign of gentrification or progress or a step backwards? Our goal is to start a discussion, nothing more and nothing less. By creating a visual that blends into what we are used to seeing in the subway, but at the same time sends a message, perhaps we can start that discussion for a few people.
We researched the average rent price for a number of stops along the L, and used a dollar sign system to represent the cost of a 1-bedroom at each stop ranging from 1 ($) - the least expensive- to 4 ($$$$) - the highest priced. We hope to get people thinking critically about the implications of gentrification. How does it happen? Where does it happen? Who does it impact? What happens to people who were living in the communities before gentrification? In a nutshell who is getting off the L and off on gentrification?
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