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

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.

Table of Contents

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