Author: Maura Ewing

Brooklyn, Gentrification

Housing is sure to come to East New York, but will middle-class jobs for current residents follow?

Community leaders in  East New York are demanding that the city protect and invest in the neighborhood’s industrial businesses—a source of much-needed middle class employment—as part of their plan to rezone the area.   East New York’s Industrial Business Zone (IBZ), which is currently home to 45 industrial and manufacturing […]