[PDF.48ca] Crossing Broadway: Washington Heights and the Promise of New York City

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

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 | #522434 in Books |  Robert W Snyder |  2014-12-02 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 |  9.75 x6.50 x1.00l,.0 | File type: PDF | 312 pages

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||0 of 0 people found the following review helpful.| Biography of a neighborhood|By Melinda Maidens|Well-written history, focused on the second half of the 20th century. I would have enjoyed a little more on the colonial period and up to WWII, but perhaps there wasn't much to write about. Having grown up in that neighborhood, I was delighted to read about places and people I knew personally. I learned a great deal about the tim| ||"Drawing on research studies, oral histories, and contemporaneous reporting, Snyder'swell-paced narrative projects the neighborhood’s serial make-overs against the backdropof Gotham’s turn from postwar industrial andcorporate colossus to a place w

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, Jewish, Greek, African American, Cuban, and Puerto Rican―carved out better lives in their adopted city. But as New York City shifted from an industrial base to a service eco...

You easily download any file type for your gadget.Crossing Broadway: Washington Heights and the Promise of New York City   |  Robert W. Snyder.Not only was the story interesting, engaging and relatable, it also teaches lessons.

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