Thursday, October 21, 2010

Independent Internet Research Sites

Below are a number of internet sites showing gentrification in Brooklyn and its effects. View the sites one at a time. Look at all photographs and read all captions. After you have viewed a site, summarize what the photographer was trying to show about gentrification in Brooklyn.

Williamsburg Today
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/12/21/realestate/21livi.html

Greenpoint in the 1980's
http://www.nytimes.com/slideshow/2009/03/15/nyregion/thecity/15-thecity-arti_12.html

Greenpoint Today
http://www.nytimes.com/slideshow/2009/09/13/nyregion/13-LOCALSTOPS_12.html

Bed-Stuy moves ahead
http://www.nytimes.com/slideshow/2009/09/25/nyregion/20090926STORES_11.html

Brooklyn storefronts
http://cityroom.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/04/08/brooklyn-storefronts-as-metaphor-for-a-changing-borough/