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Brooklyn Edges: A Mosaic Grows as Boerum Hill Changes

By Julie Turkewitz
For 10 years, as the neighborhood around her Wyckoff Street address has changed, Susan Gardner has been covering her house in color.


Shopping For Change In Crown Heights

By Patrick Wall
Like many Brooklyn neighborhoods, it is seeing a surge in new businesses and young residents. Do the doubts about gentrification run deeper there?


Quitting Time: A Factory's Fall, A Neighborhood's Fallout

By Jake Mooney
The 2007 closure of a Pfizer factory in Brooklyn was a milestone in manufacturing's retreat from the borough. Chapter three of "Brooklyn: The Borough Behind The Brand" looks at what it's meant for a neighborhood and its residents.


The Life And Death Of The Mom-n-Pop

By City Limits
Small businesses help make New York's neighborhoods. But as the next issue of City Limits reports, economic trends and policy decisions are threatening their survival.


Saga Of The Worthless Condo

By Joe Walker
A developer broke the rules, the city belatedly cracked down and dozens of Brooklyn families own property with no legal right to exist.


A Quiet Alarm Sounds

By David Alm
A multimedia art exhibit in Fort Greene examines the neighborhood-changing going on all around it.


<i>City Limits Investigates:</i> Bushwick Under Bloomberg

By Jarrett Murphy
Located in the very heart of New York City, this Brooklyn neighborhood encapsulates many of the ways life has changed in the Bloomberg era.


Behind A Stolid Facade, The Whole Nation's Crisis

By Joe Walker
The recent transfers of one building in Bushwick occurred without heed to any notions of fiscal responsibility. Yet its residents live in the real world, where caretaking and stability are needed.


More Than Words? Bloomberg and Race

By Jarrett Murphy
The mayor has earned admiration from many quarters for improving the tenor of race relations. But the impact of his policies on blacks and Latinos give fodder to fans and foes alike.


The Forty Years War

By Jarrett Murphy
The 'war on drugs' continues as ever, though you might not hear much about it anymore. The new issue of CLI looks at its advances and setbacks -- and who's caught in the conflict today.
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