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Re: The South Bronx of the 1980's |
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Posted by GP38/R42 Chris on Mon Apr 23 12:03:06 2012, in response to Re: The South Bronx of the 1980's, posted by MainR3664 on Mon Apr 23 07:25:07 2012. Nope, Horace Harding Service Road was once a normal Boulevard, and they condemned and knocked down one whole side of the road, and a few houses in to widen it to the LIE and service roads. You can see the narrow road it was once here by looking at this image, compare the current 2006 image with the 1954 image to see how it cut through the neighborhood:And in some areas, it didn't even trace a boulevard at all. As it cut through Maspeth for example, it cut right through blocks and even at an angle! AGain, compare.... Use the slide feature to compare 1954 Maspeth to 2006 Maspeth. It cut through just like it did in the Bronx, the difference is startling. Yet Maspeth remained strong: The whole idea that the Cross Bronx destroyed the Bronx is hogwash. It may have been one part, but the Bronx was in trouble before the expressway came. And many areas that got expressways stayed strong, and many other areas that were/are no where near an expressway fell just as hard as the Bronx. |
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