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Dec 23, 2019 · Urban Blight, The Son Of Sam, And The Birth Of Hip Hop: 28 Photos Of The Bronx In The 1970s. New Yorkers often reflect on the 1970s as the bleakest, most crime-ridden, and most uncertain time the city has ever faced — with good reason. There was a whirlwind of tectonic economic, criminal, and cultural shifts occurring at once that must have ...
Between 1970 and 1980, seven census tracts in the Bronx lost more than 97 percent of their buildings to fire and abandonment. Forty-four tracts lost more than half. Forty-four tracts lost more ...
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Aug 12, 2016 · But, as these images of the Bronx in the 1970s show, a place of great need was still very much alive. One facet of that life—music—is the subject of the new Netflix series The Get Down. The ...
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.
May 3, 2019 · In the 1970s, the Bronx was burning, but some residents were rebuilding. Decade of Fire, a new documentary, tells a different story about the borough’s fires—and the communities affected by ...
- Valeria Ricciulli
About the Documentary. Decade of Fire covers a shocking but untold piece of American urban history, when the South Bronx was on fire in the 1970s. Left unprotected by the city government, nearly a ...
Nov 5, 2019 · November 5, 2019. From Independent Lens, the film Decade of Fire covers a shocking but untold piece of American urban history, when the South Bronx was on fire in the 1970s. Left unprotected by ...
