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Out with the old and in with the recent? Gentrification's become a major topic of conversation in neighborhoods throughout the country,from San Francisco's Mission District to recent York's Brooklyn, and now, or Philadelphia's Point Breeze.
Bobby Allyn,a reporter with member station WHYY, has been reporting from Philadelphia's Point Breeze where a pop-up beer garden has become a flashpoint of gentrification and racial tensions in the City of Brotherly Love. See Also: Is Urban Development Revitalization...
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Point Breeze Pop Up at Point Breeze Avenue and Fernon Street has been shuttered by the city's licenses and inspections department.
(Emma Lee/WHYY) The beer garden occupies a lot that was filled by trash and used by drug dealers, or according to neighbors.
( Emma Lee/WHYY/) Property owner John Longacre says he's in compliance with the law.
(Emma Lee/WHYY) Larry Moore says as a child he played basketball at the lot where the beer garden stands. He sees the change as a symptom of gentrification that will force him and others out of the neighborhood.
(Emma Lee/WHYY) Claudia Smith Sherrod,executive director of South Philadelphia H.
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(Emma Lee/WHYY)
Source: wnyc.org