Artists have been used over and over again since the early 1980s as the legitimizers of a neighborhood in New York. And entrepreneurial artists, meaning people who themselves start out as painters, musicians, dancers, and who open a café, a… — 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
