New York After Rent

Benjamen Walker
2 min readApr 30, 2015

(III of III)

Ripped from the headlines: playwright David X and musical genius Takstar give us a peek at the Broadway revival everyone will soon be talking about.

Sarah Schulman is one of the founders of the ACTUP project, she says the story of Aids is inseparable from the story of gentrification and this is something she witnessed first hand in her own building in the East Village.

Plus we hear from ToE listener Olivia Hayes who was one of the first people to use the site in New York in September of 2008.

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Benjamen Walker

Radio, Podcasts, Comics, Documentaries. Current show: Theory of Everything (PRX —Radiotopia), Past work: WFMU, WNYC, BBC, NPR, The Guardian