Browse Exhibits (13 total)
The Diaspora and the Ghetto: Gentrification and Housing Crises in South Williamsburg
Based on and around an interview with South Williamsburg resident Mercedes Urquidez, this exhibit explores the different ways in which gentrification effects the residential lives of community members. Mercedes' oral history and scholarly research join together to explore the ways in which entrification produces both diaspora and ghettoization, displacing people and cultures just as swiftly as it entraps them.
Javier Cabrera
This exhibit is centered around an interview I conducted with Javier Cabrera at Los Sures in South Williamsburg, Brooklyn on April 7th, 2016. The interview was conducted for a course entitled (Dis)placed Urban Histories taught by Rebecca Amato at New York University´s Gallatin School of Individualized Study.
This exhibit focuses on three specific portions of South Williamsburg history:
1.) The history and current use of Sts. Peter and Paul´s Parish.
2.) The long history of South 2nd street and its relationship to the Domino Sugar Factory.
3.) The 2005 rezoning plans that continue to reshape the fabric of Williiamsburg.
"They Don't Make It Beautiful Like This for Us."
This is an exhibit focused on the neighborhood Los Sures. The ideas represented draw from an oral history with a Los Sures resident, Edna Correa; my experience observing the neighborhood through New York University's spring 2016 class (Dis)Placed Urban Histories; and secondary sources. This exhibit represents one of many takes on the process of neighborhood change and gentrification through the brief contemplation of education and landlord/tenant dynamics within this section of Brooklyn.
"I feel like I'm trapped" - Adelaida Perez
For Adelaida Peréz, Los Sures, Williamsburg, has been home for more than half a century. In this, she is not alone. South Williamsburg has been home to many New York migrants since the early 1900’s, though, in recent years that long-standing custom has upended. As a city that is constantly transforming – metamorphosing, even – New York is no stranger to the effects and manifestations of gentrification. Gentrification, as initially coined by British sociologist Ruth Glass in 1964,[1] is characterized by the “economic dimensions of neighborhood changes,” which “goes on rapidly until all or most of the original working- class occupiers are displaced and the whole social character of the district is changed.”
[1] Mirabal, Nancy R. "Geographies of Displacement: Latina/os, Oral History, and The Politics of Gentrification in San Francisco's Mission District." University of California Press 31, no. 2 (2009). Accessed April 15, 2016. https://wp.nyu.edu/displacedurbanhistories/wp-content/uploads/sites/3081/2016/01/Mirabal-Geographies-of-Displacement-2009.pdf.
A Story of Many Stories
Christopher Quinones is Los Sures. His family has been residents of 434 South 5th Street in Apt 2 for more than three generations. This exhibition pays homage to Christopher and his family. Because before South Williamsburg became a gold-mine for real-estate and a destination for priviliged neoliberals, it had been home to thousands of puertoricans. Christophers story isnt atypical..infact it serves as representation for the thousands of stories that hasn't been shared, the story of those who perhaps were displaced by gentrification.