Where Brooklyn At?
Where Brooklyn At?
Omar Ba
Season 1: Brooklyn Brooklyn: a hub for Hip-Hop and black culture, home of Coney Island and the Gowanus Canal, Biggie, and the best pizza in the world. And now, home of Barclays Center — a 1.18 billion dollar infrastructure claiming to set a new standard for entertainment and sports events. But what happens when one of the world’s largest corporations plants itself in your backyard? Episodes will be educating people on their role in gentrification, the phases of gentrification, and how it has affected me and my neighborhood. Listen to Brooklyn natives talk about their experiences.
Episode 1 : Barclays Center
Brooklyn: a hub for Hip-Hop and black culture, home of Coney Island and the Gowanus Canal, Biggie, and the best pizza in the world. And now, home of Barclays Center — a 1.18 billion dollar infrastructure claiming to set a new standard for entertainment and sports events. But what happens when one of the world’s largest corporations plants itself in your backyard?Episodes will be educating people on their role in gentrification, the phases of gentrification, and how it has affected me and my neighborhood. Listen to Brooklyn natives talk about their experiences growing up.To preserve culture is to understand history. It starts with us.
Jun 6, 2023
22 min
Where Brooklyn At Trailer
Podcast understanding the history of Brooklyn through BK voices. What happens when one of the largest corporations plants itself in your backyard? Interviews with displaced families and dissecting the phases of gentrification and the developers pulling the strings.
Jun 5, 2023
59 sec