Brooklyn Heights

The majority of Pineapple Street is set in the Brooklyn Heights neighborhood of Brooklyn, New York. The Stockton family owns the majority of the neighborhood’s property through their lucrative real estate company. While they gut and renovate warehouses, they choose to live in the historic limestones on the fruit streets. The author utilizes the neighborhood to explore the effects of gentrification in Brooklyn. When wealthy families like the Stocktons buy up real estate in low income neighborhoods, they make rent prices untenable to anyone who is not in the upper echelon.

Georgiana's Office

Throughout the novel, Georgiana works at the office for the not-for-profit company. The office is located in a brownstone that still resembles a home. While her colleagues travel to Pakistan to provide help to disadvantaged communities, Georgiana is consigned to desk work. She has been employed by the company for years, but she...