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The Bronx is Burning
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Length:
43 minutes
Released:
May 30, 2021
Format:
Podcast episode
Description
During the 1970s – for the whole decade – the Bronx suffered an epidemic of fires and abandonment. This destroyed over 80 percent of the South Bronx housing stock making it look like a bombed out city during World War II. What exactly caused this? Some blamed its residents, others blamed the landlords. In 1975, Gelvin Stevenson, a Bronx economist and journalist tried to sound the alarm by telling the story of one building on one boulevard that once promised the American Dream — but then succumbed to abandonment; Roosevelt Gardens on the Grand Concourse.
In this episode, we investigate the toxic mix of invisible factors that turned the Bronx into a tinderbox
In this episode, we investigate the toxic mix of invisible factors that turned the Bronx into a tinderbox
Released:
May 30, 2021
Format:
Podcast episode
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