The Bronx /

The Bronx / / Evelyn Gonzalez.

Home to the New York Yankees, the Bronx Zoo, and the Grand Concourse, the Bronx was at one time a haven for upwardly mobile second-generation immigrants eager to leave the crowded tenements of Manhattan in pursuit of the American dream. Once hailed as a "wonder borough" of beautiful homes,...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Columbia University Press eBook-Package Backlist 2000-2013
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Gonzalez, Evelyn,
Place / Publishing House:New York, NY : : Columbia University Press, , [2004]
©2004
Year of Publication:2004
Language:English
Series:Columbia History of Urban Life
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Physical Description:1 online resource (304 p.) :; 69 illus.
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • CONTENTS
  • LIST OF MAPS
  • LIST OF TABLES
  • ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
  • 1. The Bronx and Its Neighborhoods
  • 2. Early Beginnings
  • 3. The Changing Landscape
  • 4. Emerging Neighborhoods
  • 5. Boosting a Borough
  • 6. Urban Neighborhoods
  • 7. The South Bronx
  • 8. The Road Back
  • Notes
  • Bibliography
  • Index

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