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

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

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

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

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 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

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

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