Suleiman Osman’s The Invention of Brownstone Brooklyn, has as its ponderous subtitle, Gentrification and the Search for Authenticity in Postwar New York. “Authenticity” is a word that’s long grated against my mind like steel wool on a rusty pot. What does it mean to be “authentic”? Osman doesn’t give us a concise definition, but implies… FULL STORY
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Suleiman Osman on Authenticity and Gentrification: The Invention of Brownstone Brooklyn
Brooklyn Bugle Book Club: The Invention of Brownstone Brooklyn by Suleiman Osman
I’ve just started reading The Invention of Brownstone Brooklyn by Suleiman Osman. In the book, the Park Slope native now an Assistant Professor of American Studies at George Washington University, explores “Brownstoners,” the group of new arrivals to Brooklyn who in the mid 20th century renovated old tenements, flophouses and townhouses. Characterizing them… FULL STORY
Creativity has spilled forth from the classrooms of P.S. 8 and found its way onto the walls of the Urban Folk Art Gallery, thanks to the “How’s the Weather?” exhibition that features dozens of landscape paintings and drawings by first-grade students from the Brooklyn Heights elementary school. The group show marks the end of a… FULL STORY
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