Sharon Zukin

Every New Yorker spends a certain amount of nervous energy thinking, "How can I afford to stay here? What do I have…

— Sharon Zukin

There are masses of people who need affordable housing in New York. I think that, politically, it is very difficult to give…

— Sharon Zukin

No matter how many rich people call New York their home, we don't really have enough capital here to build and maintain…

— Sharon Zukin

A lot of us New Yorkers have bought apartments or bought lofts or are struggling to do it because at least that…

— Sharon Zukin

When new businesses open that are trying to attract people with cultural capital or cultural ambitions, they are often more expensive than…

— Sharon Zukin

I think people like difference. When you walk out the door in New York City, in a mixed-use neighborhood like the Village,…

— Sharon Zukin

One of the crucial underpinnings of New York as a culture capital is that there are multiple markets. There is not just…

— Sharon Zukin

I think the entrepreneurial activities that make art visible and attractive are what lure people into the amusement park that SoHo has…

— Sharon Zukin

As a lover of New York, I hope New York remains as successful as a city, even though the very groups on…

— Sharon Zukin

Artists have been used over and over again since the early 1980s as the legitimizers of a neighborhood in New York. And…

— Sharon Zukin

The existing American laws we use in a pinch just do not adequately protect artists or any other group of rental tenants.…

— Sharon Zukin

I think that there is a middle-class desire, and maybe an almost universal desire, among many human beings to live in clean…

— Sharon Zukin