"De-Gentrify New York...Give Her Back to the World"/2011 PEN WV Festival of Int'l Lit

[starshine]

Lengthy, but an incredibly rich, provoking (and at times, humorous) listening experience about and for more than just New York(ers).

Excerpt: "Neighborhoods become defined as good when they are moving towards homogeneity, or safe when they become dangerous to the original inhabitants."

Source: http://www.pen.org/viewmedia.php/prmMID/5692/prmID/2126

Joined by two festival participants, three classic New York artists who love their city, bring their hearts and minds together to ask the questions:
-->What are the five necessary steps to de-gentrify New York?
-->How do we overcome the crippling homogeneity that has turned parts of our historically dynamic urban mix of poets, immigrants, and revolutionary immigrant poets into destination drinking zones for investment bankers?