Pratt Center for Community Development

Join us at Pratt Manhattan for an evening of conversation on archiving, protecting, and advocating for nightlife spaces!

Nightlife has long been more than entertainment. For Black, q***r, immigrant, and other marginalized New Yorkers, nightlife is infrastructure—a form of inclusive public space in the face of racialized zoning, policing, and gentrification.

This Used to Be a Club () is a data-driven reconstruction of club geographies that visualizes cultural displacement. It also celebrates how nightlife communities have persistently engaged in placemaking, culture, and joy.

This Used to Be a Club’s founder and Pratt Center’s Senior Planner, Tara Duvivier () will introduce new data on former nightlife spaces in Manhattan and lead a conversation with David Banks () and Greg Miller (), Executive Director at on how we can learn from the past to save the nightlife spaces of today. Food will be provided.

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This event is supported by and .

🚨New policy brief from Pratt Center on the latest updates on home flipping released today!

Our new brief finds that from 2021 to 2025, over 10,000 homes were flipped in NYC. These are 1–3 small homes bought and resold within two years, often by professional investors seeking quick profits through superficial renovations.

In some of the last neighborhoods with affordable homeownership opportunities, this practice is driving up prices and increasing pressure on homeowners of color.

Building on our 2024 report, Flipping Out, these findings show a consistent pattern: home flipping is highest in neighborhoods of color and is associated with rising home prices.

Swipe for key findings, and read more at prattcenter.net/flippingout-2026 or the link in our bio.

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