Sentences with phrase «gentrifying neighborhoods of»

In the area that includes the rapidly gentrifying neighborhoods of Bedford - Stuyvesant, Crown Heights and Bushwick, the median price rose 17 percent from a year earlier to $ 510,000, the brokerage said.

In the rapidly changing and gentrifying neighborhoods of Los Angeles, Martinez finds connections between the precarious foundations of home for families targeted by immigration policies and speculative real estate markets, and the physical signifiers of forced displacement and exclusion such as «gentrification fences» and border walls.

She opened Sticky Fingers in the gentrifying neighborhood of Columbia Heights, in part to serve the students, artists, and activists who were moving in, but also to prove something: Vegan food can be delicious when done right.

SUPERIOR DONUTS (multi-camera) Picked up to series; 13 episodes for midseason STUDIO: CBS TV Studios TEAM: Bob Daily (w, ep, sr), Neil Goldman (w, ep), Garrett Donovan (w, ep), Jermaine Fowler (ep), Mark Teitelbaum (ep), John R. Montgomery (ep), Michael Rotenberg (ep), Josh Lieberman (ep), James Burrows (d) LOGLINE: Based on the play by Tracy Letts, series follows the relationship between the owner of a donut shop, his new young employee and their patrons in a gentrifying neighborhood of Chicago.

Brandi Kellett, 38, was making dinner for her family at her home in a gentrifying neighborhood of Nashville known as 12South when she realized that her 12 - year - old son, now a student at Valor Collegiate Academies, was finally getting the kind of education she had long dreamed about.

(Read original article here) Brandi Kellett, 38, was making dinner for her family at her home in a gentrifying neighborhood of Nashville known as 12South when she realized that her 12 - year - old son, now a student at Valor Collegiate Academies, was finally getting the kind of education she had long dreamed about.

The change was controversial: Some PS 307 parents worried that a community institution that has long nurtured black and Latino families would be «taken over» by outsiders from the gentrifying neighborhood of DUMBO, while some DUMBO families worried that the school's low test scores mean their children might not be challenged.

NEW YORK (AP)-- When the Kushner Cos. bought three apartment buildings in a gentrifying neighborhood of Queens in 2015, most of the tenants were protected by special rules that prevent developers from pushing them out, raising rents and turning a tidy profit.

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While classmates at her all - white elite high school breezed into adulthood and homeownership with help from their parents, she «bought my first home as a co-signer to my grandmother who was next on the list of longtime renters in our gentrifying neighborhood... to be displaced.»

A small group of weary and conference - hungover hackers, information security professionals and activists is gathering at the new San Francisco office of Yahoo, in the neighborhood of South of Market, or SoMa, a quickly gentrifying and hip neighborhood filled with tech startups.

New York, NY: A new report released today by the NYU Furman Center details strategies used by local governments to address rising housing costs and displacement of low - income households in gentrifying neighborhoods.

Which might explain why it is trying to get ahead of such confrontations here, in a newly opened used bookstore in the gentrifying Washington neighborhood of Parkview.

He was smoking a cigarette and sipping a bottle of Corona the morning we met, an odd site in a rapidly gentrifying neighborhood that boasts the dozens of higher earning white collar workers from companies like Harley - Davidson, and one multi-platinum - selling rock band vocalist.

He was smoking a cigarette and sipping a bottle of Corona the morning we met, an odd site in a rapidly gentrifying neighborhood that boasts the...

San Antonio — born Centeno, who now lives around the corner from his restaurant, had dreamed of owning a place in the gentrifying neighborhood.

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.

Faulkner has vowed to tackle the city's convoluted, unfair property tax system, which gives huge financial advantages to owners of single - family homes in gentrifying neighborhoods but penalizes working - class homeowners and hits big commercial real estate owners especially hard.

A Manhattan townhouse co-owned by the estranged founders of Two Boots, a New York City chain of quirky pizzerias, is being shopped in bankruptcy to pay off more than $ 5 million in debt as the restaurant grows beyond its roots in the gentrifying neighborhood.

De Blasio is also is calling for an overhaul of housing programs and tax incentives to spur the construction of tens of thousands of apartments for poor New Yorkers, as well as teachers, firefighters and other workers, who increasingly find themselves priced out of a booming real estate market and rapidly gentrifying neighborhoods.

Stonewalling a pay raise over the issue might increase the odds that the problem gets solved, but it could be to the detriment of the members who rely solely on their legislative pay, many of whom are minorities who live in rapidly gentrifying neighborhoods where costs of living have soared since the last increase.

Seven NYC schools are part of a new NYC Education Department initiative aimed at maintaining a racial and socioeconomic balance in fast - gentrifying neighborhoods.

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.

More locally, Schneiderman's most aggressive stances were reserved for multifamily landlords who were accused of harassing rent - regulated tenants in gentrifying neighborhoods and replacing them with tenants willing to pay market rates.

The third bill, S. 6527 will end the «preferential rent scam,» which gives landlords the ability to offer tenants a low initial rent, while they reserve the right to massively increase the rent upon lease renewal, often to push tenants out of apartments in rapidly gentrifying neighborhoods.

Airbnb's growing influence caused rents to increase significantly in tourist areas and gentrifying neighborhoods in Manhattan and Brooklyn, where the majority of the company's rentals are concentrated, according to a report released on Thursday by the city comptroller's office.

The Gallagher family is back for the eighth season of this darkly humorous dramedy about a poor but scrappy family trying to get by in a rapidly - gentrifying south side Chicago neighborhood.

Schools in popular, gentrifying neighborhoods will continue to grow; successful schools of choice will continue to attract plenty of students (though their waiting lists should shrink); metropolitan areas that weathered the recession in good shape will continue to serve an expanding number of families and their schoolkids.

The reaction of the principal in a gentrifying neighborhood's school to the arrival of more - demanding parents largely determined whether the white, upper - middle - class families stayed at the school in spite of the yelling and other incidents, or left.

The parents I interviewed who were taking their children out of their gentrifying neighborhood's school shared stories of cultural dissonance that were minor affairs, but that crystallized for them the discomfort they felt as newcomers, and their inability to find a niche.

The cultural differences between the newcomers and the old - timers in gentrifying neighborhoods can be easily, though inadequately, summarized: white, upper - middle - class families prefer a progressive and discursive style of interaction with their children, both at home and in school, and lower - income, nonwhite families prefer a traditional or authoritarian style of interaction with their children in these same venues.

The white parents were surprised to discover that not only is the authoritarian end of the schooling spectrum alive, which would be tolerable if not ideal, but also that their gentrifying neighborhood schools exhibit what these parents perceive to be an extreme and outdated education environment, characterized by strict discipline with yelling adults.

In recent months, the city's battle over school segregation has played out in a few specific schools in some of the its fastest - gentrifying (or already gentrified - to - saturation - point) neighborhoods: Nikole Hannah - Jones chronicled the Brooklyn version of the saga in her much - discussed New York Times Magazine piece last weekend, «Choosing a School for My Daughter in a Segregated City,» about her decision to send her black daughter to a mostly minority school, only to have that school rezoned to include an affluent, predominantly white population.

Some of the most animated discussions about charters today are occurring in suburbs or gentrifying urban neighborhoods.

New condos and gentrifying neighborhoods have brought tens of thousands of residents back into the city.

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.

At the time, some charged that those in favor of the idea were catering to white parents in gentrifying neighborhoods who wanted easier access to high - performing charters, like E.L. Haynes in Petworth.

The specifics of school choice may differ in gentrifying neighborhoods and low - income ones like Kenilworth - Parkside.

Does the availability of non-local school options entice parents into gentrifying neighborhoods?

In some gentrifying neighborhoods, low - income and minority elementary students have been displaced by an influx of affluent ones.

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.

This policy memo fails to address the nuances of integration and segregation when black middle and upper - class families are also part of the gentrifying families in these neighborhoods.

Meredith Maran had been married to the woman of her dreams, living in a gentrifying Oakland, California, neighborhood...

Recruiting volunteers from throughout the Bushwick community has been part of a larger mission to make Arts in Bushwick more inclusive in a diverse and gentrifying neighborhood.

It's very different to what was requested from the viewer with those huge paintings with a lot of splattered color and tacky figures doing something in the East Village, gentrifying this neighborhood and doing paintings late at night.

Go at a slower time of day and the golden structure pulsates in the quiet; a glittering, magnetic, and surreal monument to money on a little plot of grass in New Orleans» most rapidly gentrifying neighborhood.

The inclusion of Kyle Raquipiso, Eleanor Ford, and John Knight's independent space operating out of a dilapidated garage in a gentrifying Ethiopian neighborhood appears to both embody and repudiate this notion of subcultural resistance.

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.

Egleston Square is a rapidly gentrifying neighborhood, straddling the borders of Roxbury and Jamaica Plain (JP) in the city of Boston.

«Hi Ron,» says Joanna Horsnail, an attractive blond attorney and a new mom, to the man who has just walked into her new house in Humboldt Park, a gentrifying neighborhood west of downtown Chicago.

In McPherson's piece, Zillow economic analyst Jamie Anderson said,»... it appears both chains are either incredibly smart about finding neighborhoods on the verge of gentrifying, or the opening of either location positively impacts home values.»