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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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Snyder, Robert W., 1955- (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: London : Cornell University Press, 2015.
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Social conditions.
HISTORY > United States > State & Local > New England (CT, MA, ME, NH, RI, VT)
HISTORY > United States > State & Local > Middle Atlantic (DC, DE, MD, NJ, NY, PA)
HISTORY > United States > State & Local > General.
New York (State) > New York > Washington Heights.
Washington Heights (New York, N.Y.) > Social conditions > 20th century.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • 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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