Spike Lee’s now-famous rant against gentrification is a mixed blessing. As an extremely high profile New York voice, Lee commands headlines and brings even more visibility to an increasingly hot topic. But his unfortunate characterization as a racial lightning rod, as well as the contradictions raised by his own profiting from the New York real […]
Read moreBill de Blasio’s victory in the mayoral election tonight may seem like a triumph of progressivism and a rejection of outgoing Mayor Bloomberg’s Wall Street agenda, but it is clearly an accident, and it remains to be seen what lies in New York’s future. It’s got to be more than a big red sign that […]
Read moreThere he go Trapped in the kit kat again Back through the system With the riff raff again The new Jean Michel It ain’t hard to smell A rat with the cats On the Downtown mat He be rags to riches Not just rag to rich But the filthy rich Marcy Brooklyn Rhyming past the […]
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