In this Book
- How East New York Became a Ghetto
- Book
- 2003
- Published by: NYU Press
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
- Acknowledgments
- pp. xiii-xv
- Introduction
- pp. 1-6
- 1. Welcome to East New York
- pp. 7-22
- 2. The Population Wave
- pp. 23-36
- 4. Destruction of the “Target Area”
- pp. 55-69
- 6. The Youth of East New York
- pp. 83-100
- 7. Vest Pocket Planning
- pp. 101-121
- 9. The Model Cities Fiasco
- pp. 138-149
- 10. School Planning
- pp. 150-168
- 11. East New York under Siege
- pp. 169-177
- 12. The FHA Scandals
- pp. 178-187
- 13. The Community School Board Disaster
- pp. 188-204
- 15. The Hard Road to Recovery
- pp. 228-246