{"id":6827,"date":"2011-12-02T08:04:17","date_gmt":"2011-12-02T13:04:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/?p=6827"},"modified":"2011-12-02T08:04:17","modified_gmt":"2011-12-02T13:04:17","slug":"they_spoke_up_about_gentrification_but_no_one_listened_until_they_voiced_those_concerns_in_a_dying_medium_perfectly_suited_to_the_gentrifiers_themselves","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/archives\/2011\/12\/they_spoke_up_about_gentrification_but_no_one_listened_until_they_voiced_those_concerns_in_a_dying_medium_perfectly_suited_to_the_gentrifiers_themselves.html","title":{"rendered":"They Spoke Up About Gentrification But No One Listened . . . Until They Voiced Those Concerns In A Dying Medium Perfectly Suited To The Gentrifiers Themselves"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nydailynews.com\/new-york\/brooklyn\/lifelong-harlem-residents-pen-play-gentrification-neighborhood-article-1.985458\">A case study in &#8220;knowing your audience&#8221;<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>They saw abandoned brownstones renovated, cracks on sidewalks fixed and new families move onto their Harlem blocks.<\/p>\n<p>They witnessed swanky, new restaurants open up &#8212; and they watched helplessly as the cost of housing shot through the roof.<\/p>\n<p>Four Harlem natives watched the gentrification of their neighborhoods unfold, and now they&#8217;ve written a play about it.<\/p>\n<p>The playwrights &#8212; all in their early 20s &#8212; have mixed feelings about the new businesses, towering new luxury apartment buildings and new faces in Harlem, and just want to see the rich culture of their neighborhoods preserved.<\/p>\n<p>. . .<\/p>\n<p>The play, which focuses on three young women dealing with the affects of their changing neighborhood, is in its final week-long run at the historic National Black Theatre and runs Friday through Dec. 11.<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Is it also an example of irony? It&#8217;s too early in the morning for me to tell . . .<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A case study in &#8220;knowing your audience&#8221;: They saw abandoned brownstones renovated, cracks on sidewalks fixed and new families move onto their Harlem blocks. They witnessed swanky, new restaurants open up &#8212; and they watched helplessly as the cost of housing shot through the roof. Four Harlem natives watched the gentrification of their neighborhoods unfold, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6827","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-there_goes_the_neighborhood"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6827","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6827"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6827\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6828,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6827\/revisions\/6828"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6827"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6827"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6827"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}