The Tiny Robotic Scientist Cleaning Up Brooklyn’s Superfund Site
An early look at a Pacific Standard story that's currently only available to subscribers.
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How AirBnB Threatens Urban Creative Space
The end result of an AirBnB'd neighborhood is not a profitable artist collective; it's an international bedroom community of "post-tourist" upwardly mobile workers.
The Geography of Housing Affordability in Texas
Housing affordability is highly variant from city to city, neighborhood to neighborhood. Don't buy the hype about the Lone Star state.
The Monetary Cost of a Wrongful Conviction in New York
A Brooklyn man who spent more than a dozen years in prison for a crime he likely did not commit will receive $3 million from New York State. He may get even more from New York City.
Demographics: 1; Gentrification Hysteria: 0
Brooklyn is the land where myths become geographic fact, at least when it comes to the New York Post.
An Unpardonable Failure: A Flawed Prosecutor and the Man He Wrongfully Convicted
Evidence of a convicted murderer’s possible innocence sat buried in a case file for more than two decades. Now, a prosecutor in Brooklyn will have to answer for the mistake.
Why Is Brooklyn Dying?
The borough has experienced a drop in average per capita income, but there's a good reason for that.
Ironic Demographics: Brooklyn Is Dying
What can we learn, if anything, from the drop in median household income in New York City's most populous borough?
New York City’s Next Williamsburg: Fishtown
How development in the Big Apple is affecting places far outside of the city's metropolitan area. Welcome to the sixth borough?