How East New York Became a Ghetto

Walter Thabit

Published by New York University Press 2003

How East New York Became a Ghetto

Walter Thabit
Preface by: Frances Fox Piven

https://doi.org/10.18574/nyu/9780814783412.001.0001

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About this book

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.

Author / Editor information

Thabit Walter :

Walter Thabit has 35 years of experience in housing, renewal, community planning, city planning, and anti-poverty projects. He lives in New York City.Piven Frances Fox :

Frances Fox Piven is Distinguished Professor of Political Science and Sociology at the Graduate School, City University of New York. She is coeditor of Work, Welfare and Politics. Her other award-winning books include Regulating the Poor, Why Americans Don't Vote, and Poor People's Movements: Why They Succeed, How They Fail (all with Richard Cloward).

Reviews

An excellent source of data and intelligence on the formation of ghettos and the life and struggle within them

Thabits writing is lucid and heartfelt.

Walter Thabit has written a highly personal and compelling piece of retrospective analysis

Thabit emphasizes the central role of local institutions in contributing to urban disinvestment and decline

from the Foreword by Frances Fox Piven:
Walter Thabit eloquently tells the story of East New York, a neighborhood in eastern Brooklyn, complementing his close observation of events in the neighborhood with astute analyses of the bearing of larger forces on this big city slum. Events in East New York reveal in microcosm the turbulent national forces that have determined the fate of inner city ghettos across the country over the past 40 years.

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	i
Contents Publicly Available Download PDF	vii
Foreword Fox Piven Publicly Available Download PDF	ix
Acknowledgments Publicly Available Download PDF	xiii
Introduction Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	1
1 Welcome to East New York Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	7
2 The Population Wave Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	23
3 The Ghettoization of East New York Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	37
4 Destruction of the “Target Area” Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	55
5 The Uniformed (and Other) Services Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	70
6 The Youth of East New York Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	83
7 Vest Pocket Planning Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	101
8 Vest Pocket Implementation Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	122
9 The Model Cities Fiasco Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	138
10 School Planning 11 East New York under Siege Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	150
11 East New York under Siege Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	169
12 The FHA Scandals Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	178
13 The Community School Board Disaster Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	188
14 Rebuilding in East New York Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	205
15 The Hard Road to Recovery Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	228
16 Policing the Ghetto Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	247
Epilogue Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	271
Notes Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	275
Index Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	293
About the Author Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	304

Language: English
Publisher: New York University Press
Audience: Professional and scholarly;

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Published: August 1, 2003
ISBN: 9780814783412