One of the main themes we come back to time and again in the Brooklyn tech world is whether the success of the recent boom in Brooklyn startups and tech could undermine what makes Brooklyn an attractive place to build you company in the first place.

The New York Times this week turned its eye to the recent real estate boom in the Gowanus neighborhood of Brooklyn, asking a similar question, whether the place’s changes will destroy what made it interesting in the first place.

The piece, “Can Gowanus Survive its Renaissance?” by Andy Newman, goes through the cleanup efforts of the Gowanus Canal and the luxury condominiums and apartments being built up along it. He writes about the warehouses of artists and glassblowers will be pushed out and of the fancy new companies, like Genius, that have moved in.

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