Gregory Smithsimon

Gregory Smithsimon is associate professor of sociology at Brooklyn College, City University of New York, and the City University Graduate Center. He is the author of September 12: Community and Neighborhood Recovery at Ground Zero, and co-author, with Benjamin Shepard, of The Beach Beneath the Streets: Exclusion, Control, and Play in Public Space. He is an editor of the new online journal Metropolitics, and has written for the Village Voice, Dissent, In These Times, and the Daily News. He lives in Brooklyn.