WNYC To Launch Podcast On Gentrification In Brooklyn Tomorrow

WNYC Studios and The Nation are launching There Goes the Neighborhood, an eight-part weekly podcast series exploring the “remarkable and destabilizing phenomenon of gentrification.”

The preview episode is available here. The first episode will be released tomorrow, Wednesday, March 9th.

Hosted by The Nation features editor Kai Wright, the podcast looks at the pace of change in Brooklyn in 2016, now the “least affordable housing market in the country,” according to WNYC.

The eight-part series will explore neighborhoods in the midst of “dramatic” social, economic, and cultural upheaval—from Clinton Hill to Prospect-Lefferts Gardens to Bedford-Stuyvesant to East New York to Williamsburg, and more.

Residents of our area are invited to attend a launch event for the podcast series tomorrow, Wednesday night, from 6 to 8pm at the Restoration Corporation in Bedford-Stuyvesant.

[If you plan to attend, make sure you RSVP Rebecca Carroll at rcarroll@wnyc.org.]

The evening will be hosted by comedian Aparna Nancherla (“Late Night with Seth Meyers,” “Totally Biased with W. Kamau Bell”).

WNYC says that the podcast series seeks to answer the questions, “what happens to those who are displaced, how gentrification is experienced on a daily basis, and whether or not Mayor Bill de Blasio can do anything to keep a runaway real estate market in check.”