Actress and activist Rosie Perez and writer and filmmaker Nelson George discuss the importance of mom and pop shops, stoops, civic gathering places, and neighborhood character in a changing city.

Events
Help produce WNYC’s neighborhood preservation event this Thursday; join the Public Insight Network and suggest topics and questions.

Greene Space ticket info here.

Nelson George at the Brooklyn Historical Society on May 13th, to discuss his book City Kid: A Writer's Memoir of Ghetto Life and Post-Soul Success (Viking, 2009).