‘Unbearable’ Noise and Dust: Kushner Companies Accused of Driving Out Tenants in Brooklyn Building
“This is not a story of low-income families being forced out of their homes. But it is a classic tale of gentrification and profit-taking on the Brooklyn waterfront over the past two decades. First, small manufacturers, breweries and sugar mills made way for artists and musicians who remade industrial buildings into lofts. They, in turn, were replaced by young professionals buying pricey apartments in the renovated factories or in the new glassy towers that have sprung up.”