Crossing Broadway : Washington Heights and the promise of New York City /

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In the 1970s, when the South Bronx burned and the promise of New Deal New York and postwar America gave way to despair, the people of Washington Heights at the northern tip of Manhattan were increasingly vulnerable. The Heights had long been a neighborhood where generations of newcomers--Irish, Jewi...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Snyder, Robert W., 1955- (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Ithaca ; London : Cornell University Press, 2015.
Temas:
1900-1999
HISTORY > United States > State & Local > General.
HISTORY > United States > State & Local > Middle Atlantic (DC, DE, MD, NJ, NY, PA)
HISTORY > United States > State & Local > New England (CT, MA, ME, NH, RI, VT)
Social conditions
Washington Heights (New York, N.Y.) > Social conditions > 20th century.
New York (State) > New York > Washington Heights
Washington Heights, New York City, neighborhood crime, urban crisis, Dominicans, Jews, Irish, gentrification.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Prologue: A place I thought I knew
  • An ordinary neighborhood in an extraordinary city
  • A useless and terrible death
  • Apartness rules our roost
  • In the shadow of the South Bronx
  • Crack years
  • A new neighborhood in a new city
  • Epilogue: Bittersweet victory.

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