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	Podcast:		Placemakers
	Episode:		Self-Gentrifying in the Bronx
	Category:		Society & Culture
	Duration:		00:31:02
	Publish Date:		2016-08-22 00:00:00
	Description:		Majora Carter embraces the idea of “self-gentrification” in her native South Bronx. She founded a park in a spot slated to become a waste-transfer facility. She hires local gamers to test software and provide customer service for major tech outfits. And now she’s opened the first boutique coffee shop in Hunts Point, a marginalized neighborhood that, once upon a time, she swore she would leave forever.
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