The Invention of Brownstone Brooklyn: Gentrification and the Search for Authenticity in Postwar New York by Suleiman Osman
English | March 9th, 2011 | ASIN: B004NIFQPO, ISBN: 0195387317, 0199930341 | 360 pages | EPUB | 3.79 MB
Considered one of the city's most notorious industrial slums in the 1940s and 1950s, Brownstone Brooklyn by the 1980s had become a post-industrial landscape of hip bars, yoga studios, and beautifully renovated, wildly expensive townhouses.