Brooklynite’s debut novel is set against a landscape of gentrification
Brooklyn BookBeat
No matter how you feel about gentrification, there is no denying that it has touched nearly every corner of Brooklyn and is changing the look of some of the borough’s most historic neighborhoods.
Fort Greene native Naima Coster has a deeply personal understanding of the impact of gentrification on longtime residents. The author, who currently teaches writing at Wake Forest University in North Carolina, wrote about the transformation of her beloved neighborhood for The New York Times in 2011, and gentrification is a central theme in her debut novel “Halsey Street.”