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

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

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

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

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

I think the entrepreneurial activities that make art visible and attractive are what lure people into the amusement park that SoHo has become or that…

- Sharon Zukin

There are masses of people who need affordable housing in New York. I think that, politically, it is very difficult to give preference to artists ove…

- Sharon Zukin

Artists have been used over and over again since the early 1980s as the legitimizers of a neighborhood in New York. And entrepreneurial artists, mean…

- Sharon Zukin