Research Blog 3

One of the questions we asked is "how exactly are residents being affected by the gentrification of their neighborhood". Well for starters the residents cant afford to live in the neighborhood due to the increase of rent so they're being evicted, buildings are also being rebuilt and transformed into condos for people of higher income. One 96 year old photographer made an article about the gentrification on http://www.nydailynews.com/entertainment/photos/96-year-old-photographer-rebecca-lepkoff-brings-east-side-back-focus-article-1.1039695?localLinksEnabled=false

Research Blog Part 2

  So we do know that the Lower East Side also known as the LES is changing  negatively and positively but how much exactly is it changing ? More negatively or more positively ? It seems like its changing, in my opinion in a more negatively manner due to the fact that lots of the culture that they're destroying by kicking people out with the high priced living tenaments and the businesses that are being destroyed. Although the Lower East Side is cleaning up and becoming a better neighborhood.. its also destroying culture and the lower East Side is becoming an endangered neighborhood as its slowly changing into something its not.