Suleiman Osman locates the origins of gentrification in Brooklyn in the cultural upheavals of the 1960s and 1970s, challenging the conventional wisdom that New York City's renaissance started in the 1990s. Gentrification began as a grassroots movement led by young and idealistic white college graduates searching for "authenticity" and life outside the burgeoning suburbs.
The Invention of Brownstone Brooklyn: Gentrification and the Search for Authenticity in Postwar New York
March 15, 2014
The Invention of Brownstone Brooklyn: Gentrification and the Search for Authenticity in Postwar New York