Sentences with word «gentrifying»

In the past, some have objected that giving charters the option of a neighborhood preference would exclude disadvantaged students from high - performing schools in gentrifying neighborhoods.

This is especially true in gentrifying neighborhoods like East Harlem and parts of Brooklyn, as we reported just last week.

Especially communities in the inner - ring suburbs of flourishing cities, which are increasingly becoming magnets for poor and working - class families priced out of gentrifying areas?

If it were using a Common Core test, for example, New York City could be compared to other rapidly gentrifying cities like San Francisco, Washington and Boston.

Since opening its roving space in the rapidly gentrifying Brooklyn neighborhood of Bedford - Stuyvesant this past March, We Buy Gold has quickly made a name for itself as one of the most dynamic art spaces in New York.

Meanwhile Venice — a rapidly gentrifying neighbourhood popular with tourists and Europeans — has been chosen by José Freire as the location for the West Coast outpost of New York - based Team Gallery, branded as «team (bungalow)».

Keitra Bates plans to buy and renovate this building so that home cooks in gentrifying west Atlanta will have a place to bake and sell their goods.

Emmy Award winner Judd Hirsch and comedian Jermaine Fowler star in a new comedy about the relationship between Arthur, the gruff owner of a small donut shop, his enterprising new young employee, Franco, and their loyal patrons in a quickly gentrifying Chicago neighborhood.

Born in the mid-late 2000s as its older sister Williamsburg to the West began to professionalize, this noisily industrial, dirty artist haven got a reprieve from gentrifying forces when the deep recession slowed the rise of rents for artist spaces, which remained still relatively cheap by Manhattan's standards.

Two Bay Area residents and long - time friends deal with racial bias in rapidly gentrifying Oakland.

Assemblywoman Diane Richardson's 50 - minute rant during the Board 17 meeting Monday night faulted Jews for gentrifying in her district, which includes East Flatbush, Flatbush, Crown Heights and Prospect Lefferts Gardens, according to an eyewitness.

Mike Petrilli wrote about how to create diverse schools in gentrifying urban neighborhoods in this blog entry.

Vandalism or drug dealer cards can keep an area from gentrifying.

Just weeks before his jazz club is scheduled to open in a rapidly gentrifying stretch of a Rogers Park neighborhood, Andy McGhee picked through scorched debris where investigators think an arsonist ignited a blaze early Sunday morning.

He, like Mr. Seddio, argued that Mr. Lopez should be remembered as a man who oversaw the extensive construction of low - cost apartments in a traditionally poor but now gentrifying section of the borough.

I live in Bushwick, Brooklyn, which is a rapidly gentrifying community populated by many different ethnic groups.

New York, NY — In a significant transaction for Upper Manhattan's gentrifying Fort George / Fort Tryon neighborhood, 1 - 29 Bogardus Place, LLC, a local investor, has purchased the seven - story 103 - unit, post-war, 95 % occupied elevator residential apartment building at 1 Bogardus Place for $ 16.25 million.

Her dissertation uses ethnographic methods to explore the intersections of educational policy, public discourse, and classroom interactions in gentrifying New York City.

It stated: «Not only does this guise have little to no bearing on the actual works being shown, the choice of visual signifiers is a racist aggression towards the community of Chinatown that James Cohan Gallery is currently gentrifying.»

Seven of the top 20 fastest - gentrifying zip codes are in New York City, two in Los Angeles, two in Washington, D.C., and two in Philadelphia.

Meanwhile, Windsome Pendegrass is hoping state lawmakers, particularly democrats who represent gentrifying neighborhoods like hers, will act on behalf of the people who elected them.

Kwade's displacements stick to the space and time of the gallery, even as more pretentious art stars like Doug Aitken and Urs Fischer are knocking them down — and, in the case of Urs Fischer, gentrifying as well.

Above all, do we really want to risk gentrifying public libraries, and maybe even imperiling their survival as as public institutions, by dropping or downplaying popular items in time when digital counts most?

Willow Creek Chicago is part of this new effort to advocate for social justice and extend «a sense of true community,» as the Web site proclaims, to Chicagoans in the quickly gentrifying south Loop area.

Once a school starts gentrifying, though, many middle - class parents will join in — creating a «flood,» in Checker's parlance.

From there I traveled up Fifth, away from the park and into gentrifying Harlem, up through steep Morningside Park, across the Columbia campus, and down to Neel's final apartment at the top of West End Avenue.

More than for its hilarious sketches and impressive glimpses of gentrifying downtown Manhattan (and Rosanna Arquette's blinding beauty), After Hours remains memorable because its protagonist is just not what you would expect.

The schools are located in Williamsburg, a rapidly gentrifying part of Brooklyn.

The day before, officials announced that Jenner — in a gleaming dozen - year - old building in the rapidly gentrifying Near North Side, across a courtyard from a new Cross Fit gym that replaced a beeper store — will remain open.

Local readers Graham serves doubtlessly know that the district is overwhelmingly black and brown, and that many neighborhood schools like Stanton aren't the school choice of most gentrifying white families.

The High Line has become the blueprint for many gentrifying park and recreation developments nationwide that combine high - end galleries with hipster public parks, with gourmet food markets and «starchitect» museums.

But it doesn't take a new homeowner long to discover just how large that premium can be in money and time: the constant outlays on maintenance and repairs (at least 1 % of the purchase price per year, experts estimate, and as much as 4 %), the chores and DIY projects that eat up weekends, the pressure to keep up with the ever - gentrifying Joneses.

A conflicting recent report commissioned by advocates for affordable housing states that rental rates are rising most quickly in neighborhoods where Airbnb is popular, and that Airbnb is responsible for gentrifying predominantly minority neighborhoods.

Lanchester describes owning a house on the rapidly gentrifying Pepys Road as being like being part of an oil rush, except instead of drilling, «all people had to do was sit there and imagine the cash value of their homes rattling upwards so fast that they couldn't see the figures go round.»

Though we are risking gentrifying long - term residents out of exponentially priced housing, at least the fence that fear put up is starting to come down, slowly but surely.

Still, the restaurant's location, in gentrifying Amsterdam - Noord, situates it firmly in 2013.

State Attorney General Eric Schneiderman issued subpoenas Wednesday to investigate whether Allure Group misled state health officials to turn a Nostrand Ave. nursing home into residential apartments in gentrifying Bedford - Stuyvesant, where rents are rising dramatically.

However, many at the town hall meeting at Johnson Community Center were not buying it, alleging the plan is really about gentrifying the neighborhood.

«We've gone condo crazy, and certainly it's destabilized a number of communities, and we need to look to re-stabilize our communities,» Mr. Wright, who represents swiftly gentrifying central Harlem, told the Observer.

The coastal ridge we're talking about is clearly gentrifying,» Gladwin said.

You'd better get the hell outta the way because Tacocat will flatten your dumb white dick - swinging privileged gentrifying brogrammer ass like the fucking steam roller they've become.

«Blindspotting»: Characters erupt into verse, and into displays of resentment regarding their rapidly gentrifying hometown of Oakland, in this film written by longtime creative partners Daveed Diggs and Rafael Casal.

It tries to stitch a fantastical and comical premise (Sandler transforming into strangers and getting up to all sorts of shenanigans, including an uncomfortably rapey encounter with a beautiful customer) with family heartbreak (Max's dad — played by Dustin Hoffman — has left his mom, who suffers from dementia and can't quite figure out where her husband has gone) and a plot about an evil property developer (Ellen Barkin) forcibly gentrifying the neighbourhood.

While gentrifying large cities like New York have grown increasingly prosperous in recent years, smaller urban centers like Syracuse have seen large increases in poverty.

Officials with Harmony, a Texas - based chain that specializes in science, technology, engineering and math (STEM) education, said they conducted an extensive search and found just one workable place for their new elementary school: an old parochial school building on T Street Northeast, in the city's fast - gentrifying Bloomingdale neighborhood.