Taking Over and Talking Back: Theater as a Forum on Gentrification

The Pratt Center works for a more just, equitable, and sustainable city for all New Yorkers.

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• Affordable Housing
• Manufacturing
• Neighborhood Retail
• Bus Rapid Transit
• Energy Efficiency

• Jackson Heights
• East New York
• South Bronx
• Lower East Side
• Downtown Brooklyn
• Bedford Stuyvesant
• Cypress Hills
• ...and other neighborhoods throughout New York City

Building Hope is a one-hour documentary chronicling the history and accomplishments of community development corporations across the nation, based on oral histories conducted with founders, leaders and supporters of 19 influential CDCs. Produced by the Pratt Center and Vanguard Films, Building Hope aired on PBS in 1994. See it here.