Documenting Brooklyn,
Fighting Gentrification

BEFORE IT'S GONE / TAKE IT BACK:
Documenting Brooklyn - Fighting Gentrification
is a neighborhood and web-based response to the crisis of gentrification of Brooklyn, NY.

My community is long gone -- We must save the rest
by Francesca Gomes

I was born in Park Slope in the mid-1970s. Both my parents worked -- my father, an NYC native, in...
Flatlands, the forgotten Brooklyn neighborhood
by Gena Hymowech

I have lived in Brooklyn all my life, way before Brooklyn was considered cool. Slowly but surely, I have watched...