Can Residents Influence Patterns of Development?


Important to Emphasize in Bold: Greenpoint is being rapidly popularized among college-educated postsuburban migrants to New York City. The area is on the cusp of a kind of accelerated demographic change experienced by neighborhoods like Soho, the Lower East Side, and Williamsburg. What will the consequences be for the community, can its residents influence patterns of capital formation—and should they even try? RIPP Magazine, Spring, 2012.