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Re: The South Bronx of the 1980's |
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Posted by SelkirkTMO on Sat Apr 21 18:28:06 2012, in response to Re: The South Bronx of the 1980's, posted by Dyre Dan on Sat Apr 21 15:25:14 2012. It wasn't the building of the road as much as the psychological boundary it created. Most folks in the Bronx use buses and trains and so what was happening on rubber tires itself didn't much matter. But if you follow the deterioration in the 70's, it largely stopped at that boundary from moving north of it. That's what I meant.Another major factor to the pyschology of decay was the removal of the 3rd Avenue el which served a major part of that inner corridor away from the Jerome line. When CoOp city opened, they heavily advertised along the Concourse and attracted many residents out of what had been "luxury apartments." The demise of the Bronx had many factors at play, but those were the major tipping points. Many more subtle things were at play as well that would fill a nice thick book. I didn't bother with the population changes since the Bronx was always sorta "ghettoized" with different social groups living in specific neighborhoods and then those neighborhoods started receiving new residents that weren't like the other ones. Bronx had this factor more so than any other borough back then. But yes, the CBE became the dividing line, and it was a rather formidable one. |
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