TOPIC
Film
Fort Greene, Brooklyn
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.
Metropolitan Avenue: Community, Then and Now
In a filmmaker's depiction of a diverse, family-oriented Williamsburg community, viewers are served ingredients that commingle to form a lingering sense of loss.
Montage City: Edge Conditions
Three student videos investigate borders and urban transitions along 58th Street in Manhattan, aboard the Staten Island Ferry, and within the Hub in the Bronx.
Brooklyn Gentrification on Screen
Two new films each offer a look at a decade of change in Brooklyn.