Gentrification: The New York Experience

4 August 2006 - 11:00am

A new book from Columbia University Professor Lance Freeman documents the changes of two African-American communities in New York City.

"The ghetto, the inner city, the 'hood -- these terms have been applied as monikers for black neighborhoods and conjure up images of places that are off-limits to outsiders, places to be avoided after sundown, and paragons of pathology...But what happens when commerce, the middle class -- globalization, if you will -- comes to these forlorn neighborhoods? When whites who were a rare sighting are suddenly neighbors?"

"Lance Freeman, an assistant professor at Columbia University, talks with Farai Chideya about his new book exploring the gentrification of two predominately black neighborhoods in New York City -- Manhattan's Harlem and Brooklyn's Clinton Hill."

Source: National Public Radio, July 20, 2006
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