Title: Listen!
Description: Amanda Talero, student of the Freshman Inquiry Writing Seminar at City College of New York, gives a brief history of the Lower East Side and its inhabitants through processes like colonization, disinvestment, and gentrification. Amanda then highlights her own experiences of gentrification in her home of Forest Hills, Queens through a poem using collages, artwork, and photos.
Subjects: Students, Squatter settlements, Gentrification, Community gardens, City University of New York. City College, City University of New York
Places: Lower East Side (New York, N.Y.), United States
Time periods: 20th century