Carolynn Jimenez

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newcomers plant themselves in the borough, bring with them an internalized suburban logic, and then dispense that logic onto the borough’s streets, insisting on expensive food and sterile streetscapes, Targets and Walgreens and apartment buildings that feel more like gated communities than like city-born edifices, replete with gyms and spas and sometimes even tennis courts, so that at the end of the day there are no winners in Brooklyn.
How to Kill a City: Gentrification, Inequality, and the Fight for the Neighborhood
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