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The Ricotta Index
by Deborah Helaine Morris • May 22nd, 2013
Deborah Helaine Morris, one of two runners-up of the Fuzzy Math writing competition, charts the shifting demographics of one pocket of Brooklyn through the dairy aisle of her local supermarkets, delis, and specialty food stores.
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Portfolio: Sea Rise and Sea Park East
by David Lang • May 1st, 2013
As part of Typecast, an investigation into five "towers-in-the-park" across New York City, David Lang photographs Sea Rise in Coney Island, Brooklyn.
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Cultural Fluency: Intersections of Art and Urbanism
by Jonathan Tarleton • April 19th, 2013
In exhibiting art, galleries — whether the vaunted spaces of Chelsea or an obscure room on the outer reaches of...
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Naturally Occurring Cultural Districts: Fort Greene, Brooklyn
by Mercedes Kraus • April 17th, 2013
In the second in a series of profiles of Naturally Occurring Cultural Districts, Mercedes Kraus looks at how a cultural community has flourished by leveraging its legacy of artistic production in the face of intensifying real estate pressure and outside influence and interest.
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Metropolitan Avenue: Community, Then and Now
by Jonathan Tarleton • March 13th, 2013
A few hours before I went to see Christine Noschese’s 1985 documentary Metropolitan Avenue at local documentary arts center UnionDocs,...
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Field Trip: Genspace Community Biolab
by Renata Silberblatt • February 12th, 2013
If it weren’t for the unusual fruit punch – a rum drink made with strawberries that had their DNA extracted...
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The Ins and the Outs: The Gentrification of Franklin Avenue
by Vinnie Rotondaro and Maura Ewing • January 30th, 2013
Vinnie Rotondaro and Maura Ewing of Narratively take an in-depth look at a fast-changing Brooklyn neighborhood and the actors and strategies behind its transformation.
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Stuyvesant Town: This is Your Home
by Katie Stapleton • December 19th, 2012
Last Monday night, I had the opportunity to attend the premiere performance of Stuyvesant Town: This is Your Home, an...
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The Fall of the American Movie Palace (especially that one on Flatbush)
by Gabriel Silberblatt • December 11th, 2012
Last Monday, I attended “The Fall of the American Movie Palace,” a talk by architectural photographer Matt Lambros, hosted by...
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Field Trip: Gravesend
by Lisa Santoro • December 7th, 2012
At first glance, Gravesend seems like the typical southern Brooklyn neighborhood. More suburban in feel than their northern counterparts, these...
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