Making Rent in Bed-Stuy: A Memoir of Trying to Make It in New York City

A young African American millennial filmmaker's funny, sometimes painful, true-life coming-of-age story of trying to make it in New York City-a chronicle of poverty and wealth, creativity and commerce, struggle and insecurity, and the economic and cultural forces intertwined with ""the serious, life-threatening process"" of gentrification.

Making Rent in Bed-Stuy explores the history and sociocultural importance of Bedford-Stuyvesant, Brooklyn's largest historically black community, through ...