Cover -- CONTENTS -- FOREWORD -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- Introduction: The Ecology of Religious Institutions in New York City -- PART 1 RELIGIOUS INSTITUTIONS AND GENTRIFICATION IN THE RELIGIOUS ECOLOGY -- 1 Disneyfication and Religion in Times Square -- 2 Filling Niches and Pews in Williamsburg and Greenpoint: The Religious Ecology of Gentrification -- 3 Korean American Churches and the Negotiation of Space in Flushing, Queens -- PART 2 IMMIGRATION, RELIGION, AND NEIGHBORHOOD CHANGE -- 4 Diversity and Competition: Politics and Conflict in New Immigrant Communities -- 5 The Brazilianization of New York City: Brazilian Immigrants and Evangelical Churches in a Pluralized Urban Landscape -- 6 Building and Expanding Communities: African Immigrant Congregations and the Challenge of Diversity -- PART 3 ENTREPRENEURIAL INNOVATION AND RELIGIOUS INSTITUTIONS -- 7 Changing Lives One Scoop at a Time: The Creation of Alphabet Scoop on the Lower East Side -- 8 Navigating Property Development through a Framework of Religious Ecology: The Case of Trinity Lutheran Church -- 9 Hinduism at Work in Queens -- CONTRIBUTORS -- INDEX -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y -- Z.