'have you heard what happened to williamsburgh?' by lab nyc, march 2014 New York is a city of change and there is little room for nostalgia. Memories often get bulldozed to the ground, with new, seemingly everlasting monuments, rearing its glittering and glitzy head from the concrete up to the skies, for the next fabulous generation to arrogantly pass it by. There is little space for taking walks down memory lane – often such excursions will merely reveal pathways to the future and recollections with no place to anchor anymore. If you can’t tolerate change, New York is not for you. Someone once told me they overheard one tourist remark to the other, “New York will be great when they finish building it.” New York is the city of eternal change. But there are some things that seem to remain the same, although they too are changing, albeit at a pace tantamount to the birthing of mountains. You see this change in the neighborhoods ...