When Did Gentrification Start In Nyc?
In 1962, as gentrification began to take off in Brooklyn Heights, a young lawyer working in Lower Manhattan paid $28 000 for a small four-storey Brownstone (see Figure 1). When did gentrification in Brooklyn start? In parts of Brooklyn, gentrification began in the 1960s, though it became identifiable in the 1970s and intensified considerably from …