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This third edition updates through the Covid pandemic the classic and much-admired history of New York City’s South Bronx – still the nation’s poorest urban congressional district, infamous for abandonment and fires before its massive renewal. The book follows the borough’s development from ...
Aug 10, 2019 · An interview with. Vivian Vázquez Irizarry. Gretchen Hildebran. There’s a popular narrative that blames the blight and decline of the South Bronx in the 1970s on the working-class people who lived there. But a new film shows that it was landlords and the state who were responsible for the famous fires that ravaged the Bronx.
Sep 15, 2020 · Reassessing American “Ruin”. Reviewed by Pedro A. Regalado. During the 1970s and 1980s, the South Bronx was the epicenter of American “ruin.”. In the popular imagination, flames engulfed acres of developed cityscape; poverty and violence mingled with the remains of abandoned buildings; and a crack epidemic degenerated entire neighborhoods.
Jul 21, 2020 · A cultural history of the South Bronx that reaches beyond familiar narratives of urban ruin and renaissance, beyond the “inner city” symbol, to reveal the place and people obscured by its myths. For decades, the South Bronx was America’s “inner city.”. Synonymous with civic neglect, crime, and metropolitan decay, the Bronx became the ...
Mar 23, 2016 · Dimensions: 8.50in - 5.50in - 0.85in - 1.07lb. EAN: 9780692670019. Categories: • Personal Memoirs. As Director at The Bronx Historical Society, I am always looking for striking reminiscences of life and culture in The Bronx. Willie Estrada's The Dancing Gangsters of the South Bronx is one of the most compelling memoirs on "growing up in the ...
The truth is, to this day, the phrase is still 2 recognized and greatly utilized, having been used as the title for a book published in 2006, Ladies and Gentlemen, The Bronx is Burning (Mahler 2005) and a miniseries based on the book and aired on ESPN in 2007, The Bronx is Burning (Chechik 2007).
Jan 10, 2022 · At least 17 people, including eight children, are dead and dozens are injured after a major fire impacted a Bronx apartment building Sunday, New York City’s Mayor Eric Adams said. The blaze was ...
