How East New York Became a Ghetto / / Walter Thabit.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter New York University Press Backlist eBook-Package 2000-2013
• VerfasserIn: Thabit, Walter,
• MitwirkendeR: Piven, Fox,
• TeilnehmendeR: Piven, Frances Fox.
• Place / Publishing House: New York, NY : : New York University Press, , [2003]; ©2003
• Year of Publication: 2003
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource
• Other title: Frontmatter --; Contents --; Foreword --; Acknowledgments --; Introduction --; 1 Welcome to East New York --; 2 The Population Wave --; 3 The Ghettoization of East New York --; 4 Destruction of the “Target Area” --; 5 The Uniformed (and Other) Services --; 6 The Youth of East New York --; 7 Vest Pocket Planning --; 8 Vest Pocket Implementation --; 9 The Model Cities Fiasco --; 10 School Planning 11 East New York under Siege --; 11 East New York under Siege --; 12 The FHA Scandals --; 13 The Community School Board Disaster --; 14 Rebuilding in East New York --; 15 The Hard Road to Recovery --; 16 Policing the Ghetto --; Epilogue --; Notes --; Index --; About the Author
• Format: Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
• ISBN: 9780814783412; 9783110706444
• DOI: 10.18574/nyu/9780814783412.001.0001
• Access: restricted access
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: Walter Thabit.

In response to the riots of the mid-‘60s, Walter Thabit was hired to work with the community of East New York to develop a plan for low- and moderate-income public housing. In the years that followed, he experienced first-hand the forces that had engineered East New York’s dramatic decline and that continued to work against its successful revitalization. How East New York Became a Ghetto describes the shift of East New York from a working-class immigrant neighborhood to a largely black and Puerto Rican neighborhood and shows how the resulting racially biased policies caused the deterioration of this once flourishing area.A clear-sighted, unflinching look at one ghetto community, How East New York Became a Ghetto provides insights and observations on the histories and fates of ghettos throughout the United States.