Gentrify This!

The Work of Saving Urban Communities

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My friend Edwin, a resident of Flatbush Brooklyn, moved to New York from Houston almost twenty years ago. He’s a theatre and acting teacher. Edwin once told me that when he first moved to Flatbush his white friends and colleagues wouldn’t even come to the neighborhood to hang out with him, thinking the area was a little too real, rough around the edges and much of the interior too. Ten years later…