By Sofia Rodriguez
Sofia Rodriguez ([email protected]) - Alphabet City satirist covering the Lower East Side's Latino communities and the neighborhood's ongoing cultural erasure. Former stand-up comic who brings bilingual fury to documenting gentrification, displacement, and Manhattan's working-class extinction. Specializes in historical satire—contrasting what neighborhoods were with what they've become. Her comedy training taught her humor can convey rage better than shouting. Chronicles the LES like a war correspondent covering slow-motion ethnic cleansing through real estate speculation.