E-111 - "Emergent City" Screening with Filmmaker Q&A and Community Discussion

Event Description:

From Amazon HQ2 to the Flushing / Corona Casino... from One LIC to Sunnyside Yards... Queens is no stranger to gentrification and displacement. "Emergent City" tells the story of how one community fought back! Join us for a screening of the film followed by filmmaker Q&A and community conversation. About the film (English with Spanish subtitles): Over a decade, within the borders of a single Brooklyn community district, a microcosm of American democracy emerges. Residents of Sunset Park face a tangled web of rising rents, a legacy of environmental racism and the loss of the industrial jobs that once sustained their community. When a global developer purchases Industry City - a massive industrial complex on the waterfront - and begins to transform it into an “innovation district,” a battle erupts over the future of the neighborhood and of New York City itself. The film explores the profound intersections of gentrification, climate crisis and real estate development, and asks how change might emerge from dialogue and collective action in a world where too many outcomes are constrained by money, politics and business as usual.