The 10 Most Dangerous Brooklyn Neighborhoods - Housely
WEBDec 15, 2016 · Here are 10 of the most dangerous neighborhoods in Brooklyn. Brownsville. Unfortunately the Brownsville neighborhood is one of the few Brooklyn neighborhoods that have not seen signs of gentrification. The neighborhood in eastern Brooklyn is filled with public housing for lower income residents.
Brownsville: Inside One of Brooklyn’s Most Dangerous …
WEBJan 31, 2012 · Located in east Brooklyn, Brownsville has long been one of New York City’s most dangerous neighborhoods. Photographer Reed Young documents the various community members, from gang members to a ...
29 Raw Photos Of Brooklyn In The 1960s, Long Before Gentrification
WEBAug 26, 2017 · In Brooklyn, as in much of America, the 1960s was a time of tumult. Government workers, from teachers to transit laborers, were striking across the borough. Meanwhile, crime ran rampant as large swathes of Brooklyn were controlled by Italian and Irish criminal organizations.
“What’s Happened to the People?” Gentrification and ... - Springer
WEBSep 5, 2020 · Craig Steven Wilder shows how after 1930 the segregation of Blacks crystalized; by 1945 most Black Brooklynites lived in Central Brooklyn and by 1953, a “vast black ghetto stretched across Brooklyn and was becoming the largest concentration of its kind.” Wilder contends that it was that the policies of the Home Owners’ Loan Corporation ...
A Tale of Two Neighborhoods: Brownsville and Bay Ridge
WEBApr 4, 2023 · The historian Craig Steven Wilder demonstrates that as racial minorities moved into Central Brooklyn, real estate interests restricted homeowners’ access to capital for the improvement and maintenance of their older brownstone homes.
The Center That Shaped Black Life in 1970s Brooklyn - The New York Times
WEBFeb 11, 2022 · A documentary premiering this month chronicles the history and impact of The East, an organization and meeting place that served as a “microcosm of Black nationhood” in Central Brooklyn.
Brooklyn's Most Dangerous Hood - Brownsville Project Ghetto …
WEBMar 13, 2023 · Brooklyn's Most Dangerous Hood - Brownsville Project Ghetto Drive Through. We are visiting Brownsville, Brooklyn.... a place with a dizzying reputation of crime and violence. Historically...
The Invention of a Neighborhood, by Jonathan Lethem - The New Yorker
WEBAug 21, 2023 · In the early years of Brooklyn’s gentrification, a 1977 New Yorker piece by Jervis Anderson, “The Making of Boerum Hill,” captured the process in a freeze-frame, Jonathan Lethem writes.
Brooklyn's Most Violent Hood - East New York Project Ghetto …
WEBMar 11, 2023 · Today we travel to Brooklyn's most notorious and well known ghetto, the Legendary and Infamous East New York. This section has traditionally been Brooklyn's most violence plagued district. We...
Brownsville, Brooklyn: Blacks, Jews, and the Changing Face of the Ghetto
WEBDec 1, 2003 · But during the 1960s, Brownsville was stigmatized as a black and Latino ghetto, a neighborhood with one of the city’s highest crime rates. Home to the largest concentration of public housing units in the city, Brownsville came to be viewed as emblematic of urban decline.
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