Richard Kreitner, a fifth-generation resident of Brooklyn, New York, is on the editorial staff of The Nation.
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‘It’s Not for Us to Live In’: New Yorkers Speak Out About Gentrification
An oral history challenges preconceived notions of gentrification as something one can be 'for' or 'against.'
Richard Kreitner