The New York Times: cheerleader for supergentrifying the already gentrified.

The Village Voice article from last week rings more true.

"New York will be a healthier city if we can have a mixed economic base," Mulhern said. "It is unhealthy to make huge parts of the city uninhabitable by working-class families."

Southside Mission has helped organize Churches United for Fair Housing, which is pressing the City Council to put more units of affordable housing into the Bloomberg administration's controversial waterfront rezoning.

Reverend Jim O'Shea, a priest who helped organize the campaign, said he is rankled when news accounts refer to the neighborhood as a "frontier" and the newcomers as "pioneers." It's "like Columbus," he said.

I hadn't thought of it that way before: This is the language of colonial oppression. It's time to see the story through the eyes of the Southside.