Sneak Peak :: “Fulton Street”
Like many of New York’s historic and dynamic boroughs, the tale of today’s Brooklyn is written with high-end properties and over-priced coffee shops adorned with thrift store furniture, casting away the tragic casualties of gentrification. Brooklyn is losing it’s ties to the Civil Rights movement and the inhabitants who’ve lived and experienced that era and beyond for generations. Adele Pham’s latest project, “Fulton Street”, looks at this phenomenon from the eyes of those who feel the pains of rapidly changing Brooklyn in light of the threat of displacement from their homes and history.
‘Fulton Street’ is a documentary taking place in Bed-Stuy, Fort Greene, and Clinton Hill. The project is titled for the Fulton mainway that bisects these neighborhoods in Central Brooklyn, currently in the throes of gentrification. To personify this phenomenon, I am approaching subjects who have lived and worked in Central Brooklyn their entire lives. The project connects ongoing gentrification to the quality of life for residents and business owners in a modern world community of African, Caribbean, Arab, Latino, Southern, and Asian people of color. The main subjects are predominantly African American, ranging from 18 to 80 years old.
Watch below for a cut of “Fulton Street”.
FULTON STREET from adele pham on Vimeo.
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