How Gentrification, Industry and Art Have Transformed SoHo

Aaron Shkuda, urban historian and project manager of the Princeton-Mellon Initiative in Architecture, Urbanism, and the Humanities at Princeton University, writes about the changing face of SoHo in his book The Lofts of SoHo: Gentrification, Art, and Industry in New York, 1950-1980. Local artists Yukie Ohta and Jared Bark join the conversation and discuss affordability and gentrification from their perspectives as artists living and working in NYC. Yukie runs the SoHo Memory Project Blog and has lived in SoHo since she was a child. She is curating a SoHo oral history project for the New York Public Library. Jared currently runs Bark Frameworks in Long Island City.

Dumpster Diving by Nancy Haynes

(Photograph by Nancy Haynes)

Exposing Brick Wall by Louise Dienes

(Photograph by Louise Dienes)