South Bronx Rising : : The Rise, Fall, and Resurrection of an American City / / Jill Jonnes.
Thirty-five years after this landmark of urban history first captured the rise, fall, and rebirth of a once-thriving New York City borough—ravaged in the 1970s and ’80s by disinvestment and fires, then heroically revived and rebuilt in the 1990s by community activists—Jill Jonnes returns to chronicl...
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Place / Publishing House: | New York, NY : : Fordham University Press, , [2022] ©2022 |
Year of Publication: | 2022 |
Language: | English |
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Physical Description: | 1 online resource (608 p.) :; 48 b/w illustrations |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Preface to the Third Edition
- Foreword
- Introduction: Do Not Give Way to Evil
- 1. “It Is a Veritable Paradise,” 1639–1900
- 2. The First Boom, 1900–1922
- 3. Boss Flynn, 1922
- 4. “The Bronx Is a Great City,” 1923–1929
- 5. “Hard Hit by the Depression,” 1929–1932
- 6. The New Deal Years, 1933–1939
- 7. War Fever, 1939–1945
- 8. The Diaspora after the War, 1946–1953
- 9. “There Was No Standing Still,” 1952–1953
- 10. “Moses Thinks He’s God,” 1954–1959
- 11. The New Boss, 1959–1963
- 12. “Horse Was the New Thing,” 1960
- 13. The New “Other Half,” 1962–1966
- 14. The Pondiac’s Last Hurrah, 1961–1967
- 15. The Puerto Rican and the Priest, 1962–1967
- 16. Mau-mauing the City, 1967
- 17. Who Will Be Caudillo?, 1968–1969
- 18. “The Whole Place Was Caving In,” 1969–1970
- 19. Interlude: Sweet Days on Charlotte Street, 1925–1951
- 20. Charlotte Street: It Was Not a “Good” Neighborhood, 1951–1961
- 21. Charlotte Street: “What a Madhouse It Was,” 1961–1968
- 22. Charlotte Street: The Fires, 1969–1973
- 23. Charlotte Street: The Gangs, 1970–1975
- 24. Charlotte Street: The Collapse, 1973–1975
- 25. The Grand Concourse, 1965–1969
- 26. The Hotel and the Concourse, 1969–1976
- 27. Roosevelt Gardens, 1974–1975
- 28. The Grass Roots, 1974–1977
- 29. The President’s Magic Visit, 1977–1978
- 30. Disenchantment, 1979–1980
- 31. Charlotte Street and National Politics, 1980
- 32. “The Next Part of the South Bronx,” 1972–1978
- 33. “We’re Still Here,” 1978–1982
- 34. White Picket Fences, 1984
- 35. “South Bronx Rising,” 1985–2002
- 36. Still the Poorest Urban Congressional District in America, 2003–Mid-March 2020
- Covid Afterword
- Acknowledgments for the Third Edition
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Third Edition Bibliography
- Index