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Atlantic Avenue and 3rd Avenue

Schermerhorn Street and Nevins Street

The luxury condos on either side of this old tenement building rise at least another 40 stories.

Livingston Street and Nevins Street

Livingston Street and Hanover Place

Livingston Street and Hanover Place

Livingston Street and Nevins Street

Fulton Street and Elm Place

Fulton Street and Bridge Street

Duffield Street between Fulton Street and Willoughby Street

Lawrence Street and Willoughby Street

Fulton Street and Lawrence Street

Fulton Street and Jay Street

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        Hidden underneath the looming new glass towers around Barclays Center is a small Islamic enclave. This one-block-long section of Atlantic avenue between 3rd and 4th avenues includes a mosque, multiple travel agencies, multiple restaurants, a clothing store, and a law office. As almost everything around this little enclave is either demolished or gentrified beyond recognition, this place still holds out… for now.

Atlantic Avenue between 3rd and 4th Avenues

Above is a more wholistic view of this small community on Atlantic Avenue between 3rd and 4th Avenues

        Here is yet another example of gentrification in Downtown Brooklyn. The above picture is of an old apartment house on Fulton Street and Flatbush Avenue and in the background, looming over it, is a huge luxury condominium complex. This stark juxtaposition of the extreme wealth gap is becoming ever more common in New York.

The intersection of Nevis Street, Fulton Street and Flatbush Avenue

Willoughby Street and Jay Street

Bridge Street between Willoughby Street and Fulton Street

Willoughby Street and Lawrence Street

Lawrence Street between Willoughby Street and Fulton Street

Lawrence Street between Willoughby Street and Fulton Street

Bridge Street and Willoughby Street

Willoughby Street and Pearl Street

Fulton Street and Flatbush Avenue