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Mobilization of Bushwick Against Gentrification Began. Will We Be Able to Stay?

Two important meetings that dealt with a question as old as New York were held last night in Bushwick

Mobilization of Bushwick Against Gentrification Began. Will We Be Able to Stay?
At Starr Space (all photos by Katarina Hybenova unless otherwise stated)

Mobilization of Bushwick Against Gentrification Began. Will We Be Able to Stay?

Two important meetings that dealt with a question as old as New York were held last night in Bushwick

Mobilization of Bushwick Against Gentrification Began. Will We Be Able to Stay?
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At Starr Space (all photos by Katarina Hybenova unless otherwise stated)
At Starr Space (all photos by Katarina Hybenova unless otherwise stated)

Two important meetings that dealt with a question as old as New York were held last night in Bushwick. The first one, a regularly planned Community Board 4 meeting was set to discuss a proposed rezoning of nine square blocks off the Flushing Ave J train stop, near Woodhull Hospital, in order to create an apartment complex with two added streets, open space, and a retail area. (Read Meredith Hoffman’s exhaustive report at DNAinfo).

A prominent Bushwick-based artist, Jules de Balincourt called another meeting, which unfortunately overlapped with the Community Board 4 meeting, to discuss how artists can stay in the neighborhood…

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