Decade After 9/11

A Look At Who We Are Now; How Gentrification Reshaped Manhattan Community Board 3 (2011)

This follow-up to Two Bridges’ planning study, A Divided Community: A Study of Gentrification of the Lower East Side Community, New York (2004), affirms the demographic and socio-economic trends—the gentrification—impacting the residents of the Lower East Side. This study also documents the alarming statistic that in the post-9/11 decade, Lower Manhattan lost 11,000 units of affordable housing.