Parkchester : : A Bronx Tale of Race and Ethnicity / / Jeffrey S. Gurock.
The eight-decade story of a New York neighborhood In 1940, the Metropolitan Life Insurance Company opened a planned community in the East Bronx, New York. A model of what the neighborhood would become was first displayed to an excited public at the 1939 World’s Fair. Parkchester was celebrated as a...
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| Place / Publishing House: | New York, NY : : New York University Press, , [2019] ©2019 |
| Year of Publication: | 2019 |
| Language: | English |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Abbreviations
- INTRODUCTION Parkchester and New York City’s History
- 1 The Building of Parkchester
- 2 Fortunate Apartment Dwellers and the Beginnings of Community Life
- 3 Family Life in “Storkchester”
- 4 “Don’t Pick the Flowers”: Tough- Minded Social Controls and Opposition
- 5 “Negroes and Whites Don’t Mix”
- 6 A Mixed Reception
- 7 “Mrs. Helmsley Should Be Forced to Do Her Time in Parkchester”
- 8 Renewal Efforts
- 9 Immigrant Arrivals and Old- Timer Departures
- 10 As a Bronx Neighborhood Approaches Eighty
- Conclusion: An Enduring Get- Along Spirit
- Acknowledgments
- Notes
- Index
- About the Author