Gentrification erased the very spaces where Baldwin made his case.

Evidence

Mikell’s jazz club, the wondrous place at the corner of Ninety-seventh Street and Columbus Avenue where Baldwin and his brother David chopped it up about the past and the future in the film, no longer exists. It has been replaced by a sprawling Whole Foods supermarket. Those who lived in the suburbs are returning to cities now, and they need their shrines. — Eddie S. Glaude Jr., Begin Again, 516

Categorization

• SHARE: Specific enough that only someone versed in Baldwiniana or NYC geography would care — the jazz club that became a Whole Foods.
• XREF: The Whole Foods-as-shrine observation connects to the reader’s ‘grafting’ essay’s concern with how infrastructure (here, commercial infrastructure) displaces cultural memory.