A Stranger in the Greenest Block

My new sublet didn’t seem so promising. Comic by Lior Zaltzman

Lior Zaltzman is a cartoonist, printmaker, and illustrator.

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The First Gentrifiers

In the nineteenth century, yellow fever dealt a punishing blow to those living in present-day Bay Ridge. That’s when the artists swooped in. By Henry Stewart

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One of Brooklyn’s oldest pizza joints has a front-row seat to a changing borough. Interview by Chris Crowley