Ruin and Reinvention in a Transforming Brooklyn – The New York Times

Elizabeth Ferrer has witnessed this transformation since arriving in New York in 1980. As a vice president at BRIC Arts in downtown Brooklyn, she has seen the blocks around the Fulton Mall change seemingly overnight as another new luxury building sprouts up. That tension, between the old and new, the past and the present, runs through “Brooklyn Photographs,” an 11-person group show Ms. Ferrer organized that opens Thursday at BRIC Arts.