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

Crossing Broadway : : Washington Heights and the Promise of New York City / / Robert W. Snyder.

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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, Jewis...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Cornell University Press Complete eBook-Package 2014-2015
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Snyder, Robert W.,
Place / Publishing House:Ithaca, NY : : Cornell University Press, , [2015]
©2015
Year of Publication:2015
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (312 p.) :; 10 halftones, 4 maps
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Maps
  • Prologue. A Place I Thought I Knew
  • Chapter 1. An Ordinary Neighborhood In An Extraordinary City
  • Chapter 2. A Useless And Terrible Death
  • Chapter 3. Apartness Rules Our Roost
  • Chapter 4. In The Shadow Of The South Bronx
  • Chapter 5. Crack Years
  • Chapter 6. A New Neighborhood In A New City
  • Epilogue. Bittersweet Victory
  • Acknowledgments
  • Notes
  • Index

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