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NEWS ABOUT: Gentrification

Gentrification stories: 5 news summaries
CITY OF SLEEP?


 Au Revoir, Paris Nightlife 

Noise ordinances strangle once-legendary music and party scene

Nov 5, 09 10:33 AM CST
(Newser) - Paris, a city whose decadent nightlife was once the stuff of legend, is looking more like a museum these days: pretty, quiet, and closed at night. Gentrification of former party neighborhoods has brought an influx of residents unwilling to put up with noise; resulting noise ordinances have caused music venues... More »

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London • Berlin • Paris • Gentrification • noise violation • nightlife • electronic music

White Flight
Slows, Stops,
Reverses

Big cities influx of whites as more blacks move to suburbs

Jul 19, 08 7:08 AM CDT
(Newser) - White Americans are reversing a decades-old trend by moving back to big cities, the Wall Street Journal reports. In cities like Boston, Washington DC, Seattle and Atlanta, the white population is rising again as suburbanites flock to live in newly trendy city centers—and affluent African-Americans move to the suburbs.... More »

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Gentrification • demographics • cities • suburbs • African-Americans • white people

NYC Institution Bidding Final Bon Appetits

Night owls, celebs, hookers mourn the closure of Florent

May 21, 08 3:27 PM CDT
(Newser) - Few places encapsulate New York's transformation from crime-ridden metropolis to Sex and the City-fied playground than Florent, a French restaurant housed in an old diner in the meatpacking district. A 24-hour hangout for slumming A-listers and transvestite prostitutes, Florent is closing after 23 years in the face of a 2,... More »

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New York • restaurant • Gentrification • meatpacking district • Florent

2 Downtowns, 1 New Museum

Japanese architects win raves for new New York building

Dec 1, 07 10:22 AM CST
(Newser) - New York's New Museum, the scrappy showcase for contemporary art founded in a SoHo loft 30 years ago, reopens this weekend in a building Nicolai Ouroussoff describes as "a series of mismatched galleries precariously stacked one atop the other." For the New York Times' architectural critic, the building,... More »

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architecture • New York • art • museums • Gentrification

Coney Island on Track for Ritzy Makeover

Fans grumble at cyclone-speed gentrification

Jul 11, 07 6:54 AM CDT
(Newser) - Landmark Brooklyn amusement park Coney Island is set to undergo a major makeover as an upscale techno-theme park with ritzy retail space and timeshare towers, the Washington Post reports. Thor Equities bought much of the six-block thrill park and officials hope to launch the $1.5B renovation in 18 months—... More »

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New York real estate • New York City • New York • Brooklyn • cyclone • hot dogs • Coney Island • Gentrification • real estate development • timeshare • high rises • amusement parks • rollercoasters • working class • Shoot the Freak • Fran Lebowitz

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