Jesse Mintz-Roth
Jesse Mintz-Roth is a practicing city planner, originally from Berkeley, who now lives in Fort Greene.
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The Vanishing Icons of Metropolitan Avenue

The City Reliquary’s show celebrating Stanley Wisniewolski’s eccentric oversize styrofoam icons that once accessorized many Williamsburg storefronts is just the type of quaintly doting showcase of local obscura I’ve come to love about the Reliquary. Thanks to a neighborhood resident …

The Gentrification of Brooklyn: The Pink Elephant Speaks

As a design professional, I’m used to the concept that communities don’t like change. When I read that the Museum of Contemporary African Diasporan Arts (MoCADA) was presenting an exhibit to examine how urban planning, eminent domain, and real estate …

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