The Edge Becomes the Center

Winner of the 2015 Brooklyn Eagles Literary Prize!The groundbreaking oral history that tells the stories of New Yorkers effecting and affected by gentrificationIf you live in a city—and every year, more and more Americans do—you've seen firsthand how gentrification has transformed our surroundings, altering the way cities look, feel, cost, and even smell.Over the last few years, journalists, policymakers, critics, and historians have all tried to explain just what it is that happens when new money and new residents flow into established neighborhoods, yet we've had very little access to the human side of the gentrification phenomenon. The Edge Becomes the Center captures the stories of the many kinds of people—brokers, buyers, sellers, renters, landlords, artists, contractors, politicians, and everyone in between—who are shaping and being shaped by the new New York City.In this extraordinary oral history,...