Expensive cities are killing creativity, by Sarah Kendzior, a St Louis-based writer for Aljezeera New York City, a traditional incubator for artists, has now become a ‘gated citadel’ for creativity. On May 5, musician Patti Smith was asked what advice she had for young people trying to make it in New York City. The long-time New Yorker’s take? Get out. “New York has closed itself off to the young and the struggling,” she said. “New York City has been taken away from you.” Smith was not the only New Yorker to reject the city that had nurtured artists for decades. In October, musician David Byrne argued that “the cultural part of the city – the mind – has been usurped […]