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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. The results were staggering —...
- The Bronx Is Burning Among Urban Decay
- The Summer of Sam: from The New York City Blackout to Serial Murders
- Baseball, Gang Culture, and The Birth of Hip-Hop
The impoverished, crime-ridden, and decaying New York City of the 1970s bears almost no resemblance to the booming metropolis of 2019. In 1977, the unemployment rate in the city was two and a half times what it is today, according to the Department of Labor. Infrastructure was crumbling and buildings were left abandoned. Having one in 10 citizens s...
"You had looting, you had a homicidal maniac, you had the city in dire straits financially," said Mitchell Moss, a professor at New York University's Urban Research Center. "There was a genuine breakdown in the city's self-confidence." New York City couldn't get any wilder than it was in 1977. In addition to the peak of Studio 54 and an infamous bl...
"There were three things that were bad for the city: First was the blackout," said Ed Koch, who was running to defeat incumbent Mayor Abe Beame. "Second was the fear in the city with the Son of Sam. And third was Howard Cosell's comment that the Bronx was burning." It was October, and a building near Yankee Stadium was indeed on fire as the New Yor...
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Aug 10, 2019 · Decade of Fire. Redlining. 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, fires ravaged much of the Bronx: seven census tracts lost 97 percent of their buildings and 44 tracts lost more than 50 percent. Many people still believe that those fires were the...
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Seven different census tracts in The Bronx lost more than 97% of their buildings to fire and abandonment between 1970 and 1980; 44 tracts (out of 289 in the borough) lost more than 50%. “The...
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 ...
Nov 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 the city...
