[Free and download] Crossing Broadway: Washington Heights and the Promise of New York City
• Robert W. Snyder •
| #663092 in Books | Robert W Snyder | 2014-12-02 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 | 9.75 x6.50 x1.00l,.0 | File Name: 0801449618 | 312 pages | Crossing Broadway Washington Heights and the Promise of New York City
||0 of 0 people found the following review helpful.| Biography of a neighborhood|By Melinda Maidens|Well-written history, focused on the second half of the 20th century. I would have enjoyed a little more on the colonial period and up to WWII, but perhaps there wasn't much to write about. Having grown up in that neighborhood, I was delighted to read about places and people I knew personally. I learned a great deal about the ti|||"Drawing on research studies, oral histories, and contemporaneous reporting, Snyder'swell-paced narrative projects the neighborhood’s serial make-overs against the backdropof Gotham’s turn from postwar industrial andcorporate colossus to a place
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, Jewish, Greek, African American, Cuban, and Puerto Rican―carved out better lives in their adopted city. But as New York City shifted from an industrial base to a service ec...
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