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August 19, 2010
Williamsburg's Last Domino: A Gentrification Time Bomb?
The L Magazine
A Williamsburg "agent-provocateur" cites Bruce Ratner's Brooklyn boondoggle as the benchmark for mass gentrification.
Dennis Farr, a local activist and lifetime resident, is standing alongside me underneath some of the project's scaffolding on an afternoon in late July. In the middle of our conversation, he looks at me, seriously, and says: "Atlantic Yards pales in significance to what's gonna happen here."
Posted by eric at August 19, 2010 9:10 AM