One of the crucial underpinnings of New York as a culture capital is that there are multiple markets. There is not just one art gallery district, the…

- Sharon Zukin

Every New Yorker spends a certain amount of nervous energy thinking, "How can I afford to stay here? What do I have to sell in order to stay here, wh…

- Sharon Zukin

I think people like difference. When you walk out the door in New York City, in a mixed-use neighborhood like the Village, you see exciting things! "…

- Sharon Zukin

A lot of us New Yorkers have bought apartments or bought lofts or are struggling to do it because at least that gives you some respite from the inexo…

- Sharon Zukin

No matter how many rich people call New York their home, we don't really have enough capital here to build and maintain the infrastructure that a pop…

- Sharon Zukin

As a lover of New York, I hope New York remains as successful as a city, even though the very groups on whom the city depends - like artists - are no…

- Sharon Zukin

The existing American laws we use in a pinch just do not adequately protect artists or any other group of rental tenants. For example, artist certifi…

- Sharon Zukin

When new businesses open that are trying to attract people with cultural capital or cultural ambitions, they are often more expensive than traditiona…

- Sharon Zukin

I think that there is a middle-class desire, and maybe an almost universal desire, among many human beings to live in clean neighborhoods, among peop…

- Sharon Zukin