The Invention of Brownstone Brooklyn: Gentrification and the Search for Authenticity in Postwar New York. A talk by author Suleiman Osman

"Considered among the city's most notorious slums in the 1940s and 1950s, Brownstone Brooklyn by the 1980s had become a post-industrial landscape of hip bars, yoga studios and beautifully renovated townhouses. Author Suleiman Osman, Assistant Professor of American Studies at George Washington University, who grew up in Park Slope, discusses his new book, offering a groundbreaking history of this transformation."http://catalog.brooklynpubliclibrary.org/record=g1001411