I think the entrepreneurial activities that make art visible and attractive are what lure people into the amusement park that SoHo has become or that Bushwick or Williamsburg has become. It's not that outsiders come to an area because they… — Sharon Zukin Copy Share Image
Every New Yorker spends a certain amount of nervous energy thinking, "How can I afford to stay here? What do I have to sell… — Sharon Zukin Copy Share Image
There are masses of people who need affordable housing in New York. I think that, politically, it is very difficult to give preference to… — Sharon Zukin Copy Share Image
No matter how many rich people call New York their home, we don't really have enough capital here to build and maintain the infrastructure… — Sharon Zukin Copy Share Image
A lot of us New Yorkers have bought apartments or bought lofts or are struggling to do it because at least that gives you… — Sharon Zukin Copy Share Image
When new businesses open that are trying to attract people with cultural capital or cultural ambitions, they are often more expensive than traditional neighborhood… — Sharon Zukin Copy Share Image
I think people like difference. When you walk out the door in New York City, in a mixed-use neighborhood like the Village, you see… — Sharon Zukin Copy Share Image
One of the crucial underpinnings of New York as a culture capital is that there are multiple markets. There is not just one art… — Sharon Zukin Copy Share Image
I think the entrepreneurial activities that make art visible and attractive are what lure people into the amusement park that SoHo has become or… — Sharon Zukin Copy Share Image
As a lover of New York, I hope New York remains as successful as a city, even though the very groups on whom the… — Sharon Zukin Copy Share Image
Artists have been used over and over again since the early 1980s as the legitimizers of a neighborhood in New York. And entrepreneurial artists,… — Sharon Zukin Copy Share Image
The existing American laws we use in a pinch just do not adequately protect artists or any other group of rental tenants. For example,… — Sharon Zukin Copy Share Image
I think that there is a middle-class desire, and maybe an almost universal desire, among many human beings to live in clean neighborhoods, among… — Sharon Zukin Copy Share Image
