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Publisher
Greenwich Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2023]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (81 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
עברית
Description
A dark comedy about gentrification in which a socially progressive man's attempt to improve his Tel Aviv neighborhood goes unexpectedly awry. A satirical parable about the insidious ways in which privilege can unleash prejudice within.
Author
Language
English
Description
"From Nebula Award winner Sam J. Miller comes a frightening and uncanny ghost story about a rapidly changing city in upstate New York and the mysterious forces that threaten it"--
Ronan Szepessy promised himself he'd never return to Hudson. The sleepy upstate town was no place for a restless gay photographer. But his father is ill and New York City's distractions have become too much for him. He hopes that a quick visit will help him recharge. Hudson...
3) Unfadeable
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Description
"A young graffiti artist learns to fight smart against the gentrification threatening her neighborhood"--
Author
Language
English
Description
"A stunning novel about a mother whose dream of musical stardom for her three daughters collides with the daughters' ambitions for their own lives--set against the backdrop of gentrifying 1950s San Francisco"--
At home they are just sisters, but on stage, they are The Salvations. Ruth, Esther, and Chloe have been singing and dancing in harmony since they could speak. Thanks to the rigorous direction of their mother, Vivian, they've become a bona...
6) My Brooklyn
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2015.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (1 video file, approximately 77 minutes) : digital, .flv file, sound
Language
English
Description
My Brooklyn follows director Kelly Anderson's journey, as a Brooklyn gentrifier, to understand the forces reshaping her neighborhood. The film documents the redevelopment of Fulton Mall, a bustling African-American and Caribbean commercial district that - despite its status as the third most profitable shopping area in New York City - is maligned for its inability to appeal to the affluent residents who have come to live around it. As a hundred small...
Author
Language
English
Description
"Sydney Green is Brooklyn born and raised, but her beloved neighborhood seems to change every time she blinks. Condos are sprouting like weeds, FOR SALE signs are popping up overnight, and the neighbors she's known all her life are disappearing. To hold onto her community's past and present, Sydney channels her frustration into a walking tour and finds an unlikely and unwanted assistant in one of the new arrivals to the block -- her neighbor Theo....
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
"From author Willy Vlautin comes an exploration of greed and opportunism, set amidst a rapidly gentrifying city--a novel taking place over 48 hours in which a young woman must push herself to her limits to get the security she needs for herself and her family"--
9) Pride
Author
Publisher
Balzer + Bray, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
[2018]
Edition
First edition.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 9
Physical Desc
289 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
Zuri Benitez has pride. Brooklyn pride, family pride, and pride in her Afro-Latino roots. But pride might not be enough to save her rapidly gentrifying neighborhood from becoming unrecognizable. When the wealthy Darcy family moves in across the street, Zuri wants nothing to do with their two teenage sons, even as her older sister, Janae, starts to fall for the charming Ainsley. She especially can't stand the judgmental and arrogant Darius. Yet as...
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
"In order to stop the destructive forces of gentrification, three best friends use social media to create a fake gang and get justice for their South L.A. community"--
Rhea and her friends Zeke and Malachi are South L.A. born and raised. The old neighborhood is fading away, and more white people are flocking to this little urban paradise for its cheap rent, transforming the place they call home. When an eviction notice from a greedy landlord threatens...
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2015.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (1 video file, 47 min.)
Language
English
Description
In a hidden corner of Brooklyn, change is anything but straightforward...Chronicling the changing fortunes of Red Hook, Brooklyn, A Hole in a Fence is a documentary that explores the complicated issues of development, class and identity facing one of New York City's most unique neighborhoods. It's the story of a vanished homeless community and the young architect who documented it; of an urban farm run by local kids amidst a landscape of industrial...
Author
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Formats
Description
Eight interconnected stories follow the tenants in the Banneker Homes, a low-income high rise in Harlem where gentrification weighs on everyone's mind, as they weave in and out of each other's lives, endeavoring to escape from their pasts and forge new paths forward.
Author
Publisher
Catapult
Pub. Date
[2021]
Physical Desc
254 pages ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
In 2016, a Detroit arts organization grants writer and artist Anne Elizabeth Moore a free house--a room of her own, à la Virginia Woolf--in Detroit's majority-Bangladeshi "Banglatown." Within months, her life changes dramatically, as told in this hilarious and gutting memoir. Accompanied by her cats, Anne Elizabeth Moore moves to a bungalow in a new city where she gardens, befriends the neighborhood youth, and grows to intimately understand civic...
Publisher
Video Project
Pub. Date
[2022]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (91 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
A searing expose of the growing affordable housing crisis in America, this intimate documentary focuses on one of the country's most iconic and income divided zip codes. Once a mecca for artists, outsiders, and a thriving Black community, Venice is now the frontline for America's heated battles over gentrification, lack of affordable housing, and homelessness.Featuring interviews with leading politicians, local stakeholders, homeless advocates, and...
15) Tomorrow's bread
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
From the author of the acclaimed The Dry Grass of August comes a richly researched yet lyrical Southern-set novel that explores the conflicts of gentrification--a moving story of loss, love, and resilience. In 1961 Charlotte, North Carolina, the predominantly black neighborhood of Brooklyn is a bustling city within a city. Self-contained and vibrant, it has its own restaurants, schools, theaters, churches, and night clubs. There are shotgun shacks...
Publisher
Indiepix Films
Pub. Date
[2023]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (74 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
"Gentrification is not a new phenomenon. In fact, New Yorkers have been talking about gentrification ever since the term was first coined in the 1960s. But over the decades, as more and more wealthy real estate developers and giant corporations have sought to reconstruct urban landscapes for economic gain, what was once a process of gradual change has turned into a nightmare of radical transformation and displacement. New York City is currently undergoing...
Author
Publisher
Hanover Square Press
Pub. Date
[2023]
Physical Desc
544 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
A fascinating history that examines how real estate, gentrification, community, and the highs and lows of New York City itself shaped the city's music scenes--from folk to house music--and how those scenes shaped the city. Take a walk through almost any neighborhood in Manhattan and you'll likely pass some of the most significant clubs in American music history. But you won't know it--almost all of these venues have been demolished or repurposed,...
18) Like home
Author
Publisher
Delacorte Press
Pub. Date
[2021]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
403 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
Chinelo is all about her neighborhood Ginger East, but when her friend Kate's parent's store is vandalized and the vandal still at large, Nelo and her beloved Ginger East are shaken to their core.
Author
Series
Publisher
Marvel
Pub. Date
2022.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
277 pages ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
When her first mission brings her to the Brooklyn neighborhood of Brownsville, Okoye, discovering the truth about a manipulative real-estate mogul, is torn between fulfilling her duty to Wakanda or listening to her own heart and standing up for the people of Brownsville.
Author
Publisher
Ecco, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2023]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
373 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
On the streets of 1970s Brooklyn, a daily ritual goes down: the dance. Money is exchanged, belongings surrendered, power asserted. The promise of violence lies everywhere, a currency itself. For these children, Black, brown, and white, the street is a stage in shadow. And in the wings hide the other parents; cops; renovators; landlords; those who write the headlines, the histories, and laws; those who award this neighborhood its name. The rules appear...
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