From Bleecker St. to Bedford Ave.
What does gentrification look like? It is hard to pin down. A process of change over time, deeply location dependent, in search of something that feels authentic, yet can be both shallower and deeper than the caricature suggests.
By Yuval FogelsonOne of my urban detective sessions: browsing through well-known New York City neighbourhoods famous for having changed, like Williamsburg and Greenwich Village. Taking Google Street View back to the earliest documented year available, I went looking for and following evidence. I was travelling along Bleecker Street when I found the caricature transformation story I had heard of before. Street View turns that curiosity into a method: scrolling back through years to read time on a single... Read more
