Entonces Sansón dijo al muchacho que lo tenía de la mano: “Déjame tocar las columnas sobre las que el edificio descansa, para apoyarme en ellas.” –Jueces 16:26 “Perdido es el nombre del Océano.” –Charles Zarur, comentario de Facebook (Febrero 2016) “¡Cuán maliciosos pueden ser los filósofos!” –Friedrich Nietzsche, Más Allá del Bien y el Mal …
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T/Here in Williamsburg, by Dennis sinneD, is a 5-part essay that explores the history of gentrification in the Southside of Williamsburg, 1968-1982, through personal and historical narrative. *** Part 1: Block 2399 — The present address is 167-181 Borinquen Place in the 11211, but the city identifies the location on its tax map as Kings County …
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Entonces Sansón dijo al muchacho que lo tenía de la mano: “Déjame tocar las columnas sobre las que el edificio descansa, para apoyarme en ellas.” –Judges 16:26 “Lost is the name of the Ocean.” –Zarur, Facebook comment (February 2016) “How malicious philosophers can be!” –Friedrich Nietzsche, Beyond Good and Evil * The strongest evidence for …
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I don’t want to hear about what the rich are doing I don’t want to go to where the rich are going They think they’re so clever, they think they’re so right But the Truth is only known by guttersnipes The Clash, “Garageland” * In 1975, President Gerald Ford promised to veto any federal bailout …
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“EXTERIORS in the Williamsburg section of Brooklyn are often deceiving.” — New York Times, “If You’re Thinking of Living in Williamsburg” (June 15, 1986) * Drivers traveling west on Grand Street through East Williamsburg know, or come quickly to know, the closest fuel station and the last before entering Los Sures “Southside” Williamsburg onto the …
Last fall, Chiwan Choi invited me to guest-edit this issue of Cultural Weekly. What’s the theme? Open. Format? Open. Sure, I said. I knew I wanted to ask people to share stories about “gentrification,” but I also knew I wanted to avoid the word, gentrification. I’ve come to realize the power of the word itself …
1. Playing House In my building (A), there were four Mexican families raising their kids in cramped apartments, mine included. There was also one Middle Eastern family where my friend Farhana lived. Her world was always the most intriguing to me for countless reasons, including that I could look into her home through our windows …
“How are you finding the area?” a wolf asks me as he pokes his head through my bedroom door. All I can muster is a mumbled combination of affirmative words tied into a simple grunt. My generally enthusiastic and positive demeanor has taken a back seat for this encounter, this is not the first wolf …
On the first Monday of 2016, an event post on Facebook caught my eye. A small, unknown gallery in Bushwick, Brooklyn, where I live, announced it would be kicking off a year-long search for the neighborhood’s 200 most influential people across categories that included art, nightlife, bars, restaurants and real estate with an event the …
“If I love you, I have to make you conscious of the things you do not see.” -James Baldwin *** My name is Anthony Rosado. I am a Queer Boricua Cis-Gendered Man. I was raised between Bushwick and Brownsville, New York City, during the transition from their plights against effects of federally planted drugs, guns, …
“A man does not uproot himself from life, and cast his self away; Unconsciously he dreams some part of him will stay…Nor from his cast-off body does he depart enough and free himself.” – Lucretius *** There was a hurricane today, in Los Angeles. Trees falling on freeways, stopping traffic. Winds moving the downpour of rain …
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