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Professors Kelly Anderson and Michael Owen Benediktsson Cited in Village Voice Article on Gentrification

Hunter Professors Kelly Anderson (of the Film & Media Department) and Michael Owen Benediktsson (of the Sociology Department) were cited in a recent article on gentrification in the Village Voice http://www.villagevoice.com/news/the-gentrifier-s-guide-to-not-being-an-asshole-7529761  .   The article noted that Professor Benediktsson "recently published a study of commercial spaces in Williamsburg following the 2005 city rezoning that paved the way for waterfront condo towers. His research found that 90 percent of the 52 bars and restaurants located in the surrounding twenty blocks were less than a decade old; at the same time, the number of Hispanic-owned groceries, dry cleaners, and other businesses dropped by half, outstripping even changes in the residential population." According to Professor Anderson, "whose My Brooklyn documented the city-led conversion of Brooklyn's Fulton Mall from an African-American shopping mecca into today's playground of upscale chains and even more upscale condo towers, 'people fall into self-segregating ways of being really easily, and I think those businesses really appreciate it when people come in and spend money there.'"

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