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New York After Rent (post prop f director’s cut)

November 25, 2015 Benjamen Walker ny after rent, Theory Of Everything 8 Comments

New York After Rent (post prop f director's cut)

Now that Airbnb has proved it can beat regulation we return to the post-gentrified city. Two! new segments:  we meet a landlord (named Benny) who built an illegal artists space in Bushwick, and we visit Astor Place, the embodiment of the New New York, with writer Ada Calhoun (Saint Marks is Dead). astorplace

New York After Rent (III of III)

April 30, 2015 Benjamen Walker ny after rent, Theory Of Everything 10 Comments

New York After Rent (part 3 of 3)

Our series concludes with an attempt to examine the suburbanized commodified inner cityscape of New York. Author and activist Sarah Schulman tells us about the Gentrified Mind, plus we hear from one of the first Airbnbers of New York. PLUS  a sneak preview of a new rock musical everyone will soon be talking about. RENT REBOOT5

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New York After Rent (II of III)

April 22, 2015 Benjamen Walker ny after rent, Theory Of Everything 00:30:30 20 Comments

New York After Rent (part 2 of 3)

Our series continues with a journey from Avenue B to Bushwick: Kathy Kirkpatrick tells us about the final days of her Life Cafe in the East Village and essayist Tim Kreider tells us about his exile in Bushwick. Plus your host tries to make sense of the first time he got a glimpse of the new New York at a party in late September 2008. Screen shot 2015-04-22 at 12.29.56 PM

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New York After Rent (I of III)

April 8, 2015 Benjamen Walker ny after rent, Theory Of Everything 14 Comments

New York After Rent (part 1 of 3)

The financial crisis of September 2008 overshadows one of the most important events in recent New York History: the arrival of Airbnb. And while your host wasn’t paying attention back then either, today he is fed up with the commodification of every square inch of the city. But what if the Airbnb economy is also changing the way New York City dreams and makes art? Can it be stopped? Housing Activist Murray Cox gives us a tour of his insideairbnb project, Sociologist Richard Ocejo takes us on a jaunt through Hell Square, and legendary performance artist Penny Arcade shows us around “the big cupcake”. rent1

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