TIVOLI "A Place We Call Home" Trailer

words and video documenting the people of Tivoli Towers, a 35-year-old apartment building in Crown Heights Brooklyn.
Tivoli is located in a neighborhood that once suffered harshly from lack of investment and the crack epidemic. Today, this same neighborhood is rapidly changing due to gentrification. Tivoli Towers is one of the few buildings in the neighborhood that has not been gentrified as yet, due to its status in the city-sponsored Mitchell-Lama affordable housing program. When the landlord recently tried to sell the building and remove it from the Mitchell-Lama Program, the tenants sued and won. Since several NYC landlords have successfully removed their buildings from this program, this proved to be a landmark decision and important victory in 2005.

Category:

Music

Tags:

• Gentrification
• Tivoli
• housing
• a place we call home

[olatunjimason]

As a youth.I remember spending a summer in this building.

[nycrebel]

What up to my Tivoli people....RIP DJ

[graydar1]

i was the fourth family in on that first day. My mother is still there and lives on soc sec. if rents go up, she gotta come with me, she'll start punishing me again lol. but its like no other big building in brooklyn, we all looked out for each other and knew each other. kids would eat at whose mother was home, cause all the mothersw worked

[itsmyhouse32]

wow, great content! Brodee u are on your way!!! Would love to work with u 1 day!

[megablackmon]

YO i Live in Tivoli For 12 Years And I love It Its Like No Other PLace I every Live Before i Grew UP There And I Was Happy I Miss Brooklyn

[ladygaga1272]

i live in tivioli i cant belive i not in it at 1:57 is my friend his nick name is scoper i call him edward cuz dats his name

[arketa6]

My name is Arketa Mckeller,My family and I lived in Tivoli from 1978-1994.Tivoli is not just a building its a family where every body knows each other personally,not just in passing.Our children all played together and the parents hung out with each other.I pray that my friends will still remain there as The Tivoli family and not be pushed out.

[arketa6]

Tivoli to me,my daughter Mia,My son Yoo-Yoo who everybody knows, is where all of our good memories lie.The people,the parties,just being being a part of the Tivoli family is something we will never forget.Living there was one of the best times in my life,and knowing that my friends are being pushed out hurts!

[wockaflockalondon]

dis video tough my nigga