Nicholas P. Money
- Published in print:
- 2006
- Published Online:
- September 2007
- ISBN:
- 9780195189711
- eISBN:
- 9780199790265
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780195189711.003.0001
- Subject:
- Biology, Microbiology
This chapter describes the story of the chestnut blight epidemic in the eastern United States, a fungal disease that reshaped the entire landscape. The chestnut was a dominant tree in American ...
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This chapter describes the story of the chestnut blight epidemic in the eastern United States, a fungal disease that reshaped the entire landscape. The chestnut was a dominant tree in American hardwood forests until the introduction of the pathogen to the Bronx Zoo in 1904. The blight then spread southwestward astride the Appalachians at a rate of 24 miles per year until every mature chestnut was infected by the 1950s. This chapter explores the ways in which a single fungal disease ravaged local and regional economies, liquidated livelihoods, and ruined, or at least, profoundly altered, the ecology of woodlands.Less
This chapter describes the story of the chestnut blight epidemic in the eastern United States, a fungal disease that reshaped the entire landscape. The chestnut was a dominant tree in American hardwood forests until the introduction of the pathogen to the Bronx Zoo in 1904. The blight then spread southwestward astride the Appalachians at a rate of 24 miles per year until every mature chestnut was infected by the 1950s. This chapter explores the ways in which a single fungal disease ravaged local and regional economies, liquidated livelihoods, and ruined, or at least, profoundly altered, the ecology of woodlands.
Allen Jones
- Published in print:
- 2009
- Published Online:
- September 2011
- ISBN:
- 9780823231027
- eISBN:
- 9780823240821
- Item type:
- book
- Publisher:
- Fordham University Press
- DOI:
- 10.5422/fordham/9780823231027.001.0001
- Subject:
- History, Social History
This is the story of Allen Jones and his odyssey from the streets of the Bronx to a life as a professional athlete and banker in Europe, but it is also provides a unique vantage point on the history ...
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This is the story of Allen Jones and his odyssey from the streets of the Bronx to a life as a professional athlete and banker in Europe, but it is also provides a unique vantage point on the history of the Bronx and sheds new light on a neglected period in American urban history. The author grew up in a public housing project in the South Bronx at a time — the 1950s — when that neighborhood was a place of optimism and hope for upwardly mobile Black and Latino families. Brought up in a two-parent household, with many neighborhood mentors, he led an almost charmed life as a budding basketball star until his teen years, when his once peaceful neighborhood was torn by job losses, white flight, and a crippling drug epidemic. Drawn into the heroin trade, first as a user, then as a dealer, he spent four months on Rikers Island, where he experienced a crisis of conscience and a determination to turn his life around. Sent to a New England prep school upon his release, he used his basketball skills and street smarts to forge a life outside the Bronx, first as a college athlete in the South, then as a professional basketball player, radio personality, and banker in Europe. This book brings Bronx streets and housing projects to life as places of possibility as well as tragedy, where racism and economic hardship never completely suppressed the resilient spirit of its residents.Less
This is the story of Allen Jones and his odyssey from the streets of the Bronx to a life as a professional athlete and banker in Europe, but it is also provides a unique vantage point on the history of the Bronx and sheds new light on a neglected period in American urban history. The author grew up in a public housing project in the South Bronx at a time — the 1950s — when that neighborhood was a place of optimism and hope for upwardly mobile Black and Latino families. Brought up in a two-parent household, with many neighborhood mentors, he led an almost charmed life as a budding basketball star until his teen years, when his once peaceful neighborhood was torn by job losses, white flight, and a crippling drug epidemic. Drawn into the heroin trade, first as a user, then as a dealer, he spent four months on Rikers Island, where he experienced a crisis of conscience and a determination to turn his life around. Sent to a New England prep school upon his release, he used his basketball skills and street smarts to forge a life outside the Bronx, first as a college athlete in the South, then as a professional basketball player, radio personality, and banker in Europe. This book brings Bronx streets and housing projects to life as places of possibility as well as tragedy, where racism and economic hardship never completely suppressed the resilient spirit of its residents.
Janet Grossbach Mayer
- Published in print:
- 2011
- Published Online:
- September 2011
- ISBN:
- 9780823234165
- eISBN:
- 9780823240814
- Item type:
- book
- Publisher:
- Fordham University Press
- DOI:
- 10.5422/fordham/9780823234165.001.0001
- Subject:
- History, Social History
Rundown, vermin-infested buildings; rigid, slow-to-react bureaucratic systems; children from broken homes and declining communities. How can a teacher succeed? How does a student not only survive but ...
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Rundown, vermin-infested buildings; rigid, slow-to-react bureaucratic systems; children from broken homes and declining communities. How can a teacher succeed? How does a student not only survive but also come to thrive? It can happen, and this book tells the heroic stories of the author's students during her 33-year tenure as a Bronx high school teacher. In 1995, her students began a pen-pal exchange with South African teenagers who, under apartheid, had been denied an education. Almost uniformly, the South Africans asked, “Is the Bronx as bad as they say?” This dedicated teacher promised those students and all future ones that she would write a book to help change the stereotypical image of Bronx students and show that, in spite of overwhelming obstacles, they are outstanding young people, capable of the highest achievements. She walks the reader through the decrepit school building, describing the deplorable physical conditions that students and faculty navigate daily. Then, in eight chapters eight amazing young people are introduced, a small sample of the more than 14,000 students the writer has felt honored to teach. She describes her own Bronx roots and the powerful influences that made her such a determined teacher. Finally, the veteran teacher sounds the alarm to stop the corruption and degradation of public education in the guise of what are euphemistically labeled reforms. She also expresses optimism that public education and our democracy can still be saved, urgently calling on all to become involved and help save our schools.Less
Rundown, vermin-infested buildings; rigid, slow-to-react bureaucratic systems; children from broken homes and declining communities. How can a teacher succeed? How does a student not only survive but also come to thrive? It can happen, and this book tells the heroic stories of the author's students during her 33-year tenure as a Bronx high school teacher. In 1995, her students began a pen-pal exchange with South African teenagers who, under apartheid, had been denied an education. Almost uniformly, the South Africans asked, “Is the Bronx as bad as they say?” This dedicated teacher promised those students and all future ones that she would write a book to help change the stereotypical image of Bronx students and show that, in spite of overwhelming obstacles, they are outstanding young people, capable of the highest achievements. She walks the reader through the decrepit school building, describing the deplorable physical conditions that students and faculty navigate daily. Then, in eight chapters eight amazing young people are introduced, a small sample of the more than 14,000 students the writer has felt honored to teach. She describes her own Bronx roots and the powerful influences that made her such a determined teacher. Finally, the veteran teacher sounds the alarm to stop the corruption and degradation of public education in the guise of what are euphemistically labeled reforms. She also expresses optimism that public education and our democracy can still be saved, urgently calling on all to become involved and help save our schools.
James Carter
- Published in print:
- 2010
- Published Online:
- January 2011
- ISBN:
- 9780195398854
- eISBN:
- 9780199894413
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780195398854.003.0000
- Subject:
- Religion, Buddhism
This chapter describes the process by which writing a historical monograph became more biographical and personal through chance encounters with the subject’s colleagues and descendants. Meeting with ...
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This chapter describes the process by which writing a historical monograph became more biographical and personal through chance encounters with the subject’s colleagues and descendants. Meeting with Tanxu’s dharma-heir, Master Lok To, enabled the author to travel in the footsteps of Tanxu, and bring a personal component to complement the historical research.Less
This chapter describes the process by which writing a historical monograph became more biographical and personal through chance encounters with the subject’s colleagues and descendants. Meeting with Tanxu’s dharma-heir, Master Lok To, enabled the author to travel in the footsteps of Tanxu, and bring a personal component to complement the historical research.
Joseph C., Jr. Ewoodzie
- Published in print:
- 2017
- Published Online:
- January 2018
- ISBN:
- 9781469632759
- eISBN:
- 9781469632773
- Item type:
- book
- Publisher:
- University of North Carolina Press
- DOI:
- 10.5149/northcarolina/9781469632759.001.0001
- Subject:
- Society and Culture, Cultural Studies
The origin story of hip-hop—one that involves Kool Herc DJing a house party on Sedgwick Avenue in the Bronx—has become received wisdom. But Joseph C. Ewoodzie Jr. argues that the full story remains ...
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The origin story of hip-hop—one that involves Kool Herc DJing a house party on Sedgwick Avenue in the Bronx—has become received wisdom. But Joseph C. Ewoodzie Jr. argues that the full story remains to be told. In vibrant prose, he combines never-before-used archival material with searching questions about the symbolic boundaries that have divided our understanding of the music. In Break Beats in the Bronx, Ewoodzie portrays the creative process that brought about what we now know as hip-hop and shows that the art form was a result of serendipitous events, accidents, calculated successes, and failures that, almost magically, came together. In doing so, he questions the unexamined assumptions about hip-hop's beginnings, including why there are just four traditional elements—DJing, MCing, breaking, and graffiti writing—and not others, why the South Bronx and not any other borough or city is considered the cradle of the form, and which artists besides Kool Herc, Afrika Bambaataa, and Grandmaster Flash founded the genre. Ewoodzie answers these and many other questions about hip-hop's beginnings. Unearthing new evidence, he shows what occurred during the crucial but surprisingly underexamined years between 1975 and 1979 and argues that it was during this period that the internal logic and conventions of the scene were formed.Less
The origin story of hip-hop—one that involves Kool Herc DJing a house party on Sedgwick Avenue in the Bronx—has become received wisdom. But Joseph C. Ewoodzie Jr. argues that the full story remains to be told. In vibrant prose, he combines never-before-used archival material with searching questions about the symbolic boundaries that have divided our understanding of the music. In Break Beats in the Bronx, Ewoodzie portrays the creative process that brought about what we now know as hip-hop and shows that the art form was a result of serendipitous events, accidents, calculated successes, and failures that, almost magically, came together. In doing so, he questions the unexamined assumptions about hip-hop's beginnings, including why there are just four traditional elements—DJing, MCing, breaking, and graffiti writing—and not others, why the South Bronx and not any other borough or city is considered the cradle of the form, and which artists besides Kool Herc, Afrika Bambaataa, and Grandmaster Flash founded the genre. Ewoodzie answers these and many other questions about hip-hop's beginnings. Unearthing new evidence, he shows what occurred during the crucial but surprisingly underexamined years between 1975 and 1979 and argues that it was during this period that the internal logic and conventions of the scene were formed.
Jan Haldipur
- Published in print:
- 2018
- Published Online:
- May 2019
- ISBN:
- 9781479869084
- eISBN:
- 9781479871407
- Item type:
- book
- Publisher:
- NYU Press
- DOI:
- 10.18574/nyu/9781479869084.001.0001
- Subject:
- Sociology, Law, Crime and Deviance
In the early 2000s, New York City began to experience a surge in “stop, question, and frisks”—a police tactic that became a distinctive feature of the New York Police Department. Young black and ...
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In the early 2000s, New York City began to experience a surge in “stop, question, and frisks”—a police tactic that became a distinctive feature of the New York Police Department. Young black and Latino men disproportionately became the focus of this approach, which targets residents of selected neighborhoods throughout the five boroughs. Nowhere is this issue more critical than in the Bronx, which became “ground zero” for many of these stops. This book draws from approximately three years of intensive ethnographic fieldwork, beginning in 2011 (the year stops would reach their highest point) and conducted in and around the 40th, 42nd, and 44th Precincts of the southwest Bronx. Relying primarily on participant observation, informal interviews, focus groups, and life-history interviews, this book examines how community members make sense of aggressive policing tactics and explores the strategies and sources of resilience these individuals use to cope. This book takes a close look at residents’ (re)conception of what it means to be a citizen and just how their right to public space has been transformed by aggressive policing tactics. Findings suggest a substantial erosion of faith in local and state institutions. Moreover, these aggressive policing tactics discourage the formation of social ties in the neighborhood—the very networks needed to get ahead.Less
In the early 2000s, New York City began to experience a surge in “stop, question, and frisks”—a police tactic that became a distinctive feature of the New York Police Department. Young black and Latino men disproportionately became the focus of this approach, which targets residents of selected neighborhoods throughout the five boroughs. Nowhere is this issue more critical than in the Bronx, which became “ground zero” for many of these stops. This book draws from approximately three years of intensive ethnographic fieldwork, beginning in 2011 (the year stops would reach their highest point) and conducted in and around the 40th, 42nd, and 44th Precincts of the southwest Bronx. Relying primarily on participant observation, informal interviews, focus groups, and life-history interviews, this book examines how community members make sense of aggressive policing tactics and explores the strategies and sources of resilience these individuals use to cope. This book takes a close look at residents’ (re)conception of what it means to be a citizen and just how their right to public space has been transformed by aggressive policing tactics. Findings suggest a substantial erosion of faith in local and state institutions. Moreover, these aggressive policing tactics discourage the formation of social ties in the neighborhood—the very networks needed to get ahead.
Janet Grossbach Mayer
- Published in print:
- 2011
- Published Online:
- September 2011
- ISBN:
- 9780823234165
- eISBN:
- 9780823240814
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Fordham University Press
- DOI:
- 10.5422/fordham/9780823234165.003.0008
- Subject:
- History, Social History
Academic workshops were scheduled for each morning — Janet Mayer taught English and reading. Tamika stuck to her, and so began their relationship that has stuck for all these years. Although not all ...
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Academic workshops were scheduled for each morning — Janet Mayer taught English and reading. Tamika stuck to her, and so began their relationship that has stuck for all these years. Although not all the ninth graders in Mayer's summer school class were scheduled for her September class, Tamika was. This Bronx high school was huge. It was built in the early 1970s and could accommodate five thousand pupils. Some would learn to navigate this large system; they could speak up for themselves, even correct mistakes on their programs, a chronic problem; they could arrange for guidance counselor visits and, in general, not get lost in the bureaucracy. However, for a great number of students, coming from small junior high schools, this vast system stymied them. The program committee was, as always, inundated, swamped, with hundreds and hundreds of last-minute program changes, and it was common for students to wait many weeks for their correct programs.Less
Academic workshops were scheduled for each morning — Janet Mayer taught English and reading. Tamika stuck to her, and so began their relationship that has stuck for all these years. Although not all the ninth graders in Mayer's summer school class were scheduled for her September class, Tamika was. This Bronx high school was huge. It was built in the early 1970s and could accommodate five thousand pupils. Some would learn to navigate this large system; they could speak up for themselves, even correct mistakes on their programs, a chronic problem; they could arrange for guidance counselor visits and, in general, not get lost in the bureaucracy. However, for a great number of students, coming from small junior high schools, this vast system stymied them. The program committee was, as always, inundated, swamped, with hundreds and hundreds of last-minute program changes, and it was common for students to wait many weeks for their correct programs.
ALLEN JONES and Mark Naison
- Published in print:
- 2009
- Published Online:
- September 2011
- ISBN:
- 9780823231027
- eISBN:
- 9780823240821
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Fordham University Press
- DOI:
- 10.5422/fordham/9780823231027.003.0001
- Subject:
- History, Social History
This book is Allen Jones's story, and it is also the story of thousands of young men and women who grew up in that particular time and place, many of whom were not lucky enough to be pulled away from ...
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This book is Allen Jones's story, and it is also the story of thousands of young men and women who grew up in that particular time and place, many of whom were not lucky enough to be pulled away from the window, to land on their feet, or even to live into middle age. The book also tells the story of a neighborhood in the Bronx. The Lester Patterson Houses is a public housing complex built for war veterans and their children in the heart of the South Bronx. However, by the time Jones was an adult, what was designed as an ideal community for people of different races and nationalities became a kind of war zone. Built in 1950, this was one of the first public housing projects in the South Bronx, part of a huge urban renewal project extending from 139th Street to 145th Street between 3rd and Morris Avenues.Less
This book is Allen Jones's story, and it is also the story of thousands of young men and women who grew up in that particular time and place, many of whom were not lucky enough to be pulled away from the window, to land on their feet, or even to live into middle age. The book also tells the story of a neighborhood in the Bronx. The Lester Patterson Houses is a public housing complex built for war veterans and their children in the heart of the South Bronx. However, by the time Jones was an adult, what was designed as an ideal community for people of different races and nationalities became a kind of war zone. Built in 1950, this was one of the first public housing projects in the South Bronx, part of a huge urban renewal project extending from 139th Street to 145th Street between 3rd and Morris Avenues.
Janet Grossbach Mayer
- Published in print:
- 2011
- Published Online:
- September 2011
- ISBN:
- 9780823234165
- eISBN:
- 9780823240814
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Fordham University Press
- DOI:
- 10.5422/fordham/9780823234165.003.0013
- Subject:
- History, Social History
There are so many other Bronx students and this chapter describes a few of them. A young man, a valedictorian some years ago, admitted to a few of his teachers, that he had been homeless for the last ...
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There are so many other Bronx students and this chapter describes a few of them. A young man, a valedictorian some years ago, admitted to a few of his teachers, that he had been homeless for the last year of high school and had been living on the New York City subway, keeping warm and sleeping on the train. Then there was a female student who showed great talent as a basketball player. Title IX in 1972 had made more funds and opportunities available for girls and women in sports, and Keisha benefited from this more equitable law. Then there was Alicia, who wanted to be an astronaut, and then Robert, a brilliant young African American male who was an outstanding student in the multicultural literature class, who accepted every challenge and won a full scholarship to Bowdoin College in Maine.Less
There are so many other Bronx students and this chapter describes a few of them. A young man, a valedictorian some years ago, admitted to a few of his teachers, that he had been homeless for the last year of high school and had been living on the New York City subway, keeping warm and sleeping on the train. Then there was a female student who showed great talent as a basketball player. Title IX in 1972 had made more funds and opportunities available for girls and women in sports, and Keisha benefited from this more equitable law. Then there was Alicia, who wanted to be an astronaut, and then Robert, a brilliant young African American male who was an outstanding student in the multicultural literature class, who accepted every challenge and won a full scholarship to Bowdoin College in Maine.
ALLEN JONES and Mark Naison
- Published in print:
- 2009
- Published Online:
- September 2011
- ISBN:
- 9780823231027
- eISBN:
- 9780823240821
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Fordham University Press
- DOI:
- 10.5422/fordham/9780823231027.003.0010
- Subject:
- History, Social History
The year 1963 has become a permanent part of the memory of every American who is old enough to remember the events of that year. That fateful year has meaning for Allen Jones's personal history as ...
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The year 1963 has become a permanent part of the memory of every American who is old enough to remember the events of that year. That fateful year has meaning for Allen Jones's personal history as well. He had lost his childhood innocence and was gradually becoming more fully aware of things happening around him. Even though his main focus was on establishing his street credibility and getting next to the girls in his neighborhood, Jones could not help being affected by the events of the civil rights movement in the spring and summer of 1963 and by the rising tide of black awareness that was swelling in Harlem and the Bronx. News of major events, like the Birmingham demonstration and the March on Washington, would break through the invisible wall that seemed to separate their local world from the larger one.Less
The year 1963 has become a permanent part of the memory of every American who is old enough to remember the events of that year. That fateful year has meaning for Allen Jones's personal history as well. He had lost his childhood innocence and was gradually becoming more fully aware of things happening around him. Even though his main focus was on establishing his street credibility and getting next to the girls in his neighborhood, Jones could not help being affected by the events of the civil rights movement in the spring and summer of 1963 and by the rising tide of black awareness that was swelling in Harlem and the Bronx. News of major events, like the Birmingham demonstration and the March on Washington, would break through the invisible wall that seemed to separate their local world from the larger one.
P. A. Buckley, Walter Sedwitz, William J. Norse, and John Kieran
- Published in print:
- 2018
- Published Online:
- May 2019
- ISBN:
- 9781501719615
- eISBN:
- 9781501719622
- Item type:
- book
- Publisher:
- Cornell University Press
- DOI:
- 10.7591/cornell/9781501719615.001.0001
- Subject:
- Biology, Ornithology
This book offers the first quantitative long-term historical analysis of the migratory, winter, and breeding avifaunas of any New York City natural area—Van Cortlandt Park and the adjacent Northwest ...
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This book offers the first quantitative long-term historical analysis of the migratory, winter, and breeding avifaunas of any New York City natural area—Van Cortlandt Park and the adjacent Northwest Bronx—and spans the century and a half from 1872 to 2016. Only Manhattan’s Central and Brooklyn’s Prospect Parks have published even lightly annotated cumulative species lists, last updated in 1967, and the most recent book addressing the birdlife of the New York City area was published more than 50 years ago. Addressed are the 301 Bronx, New York City and New York City area species known to have occurred within the study area, plus another 70 potential additions. These are contrasted with their status in adjacent Riverdale, the entire Bronx, Central and Prospect Parks, New York City, plus Long Island, Westchester, and Rockland Cos. The history of the 123 known study area breeding species are tracked from 1872—only 20 years after Audubon’s death in Manhattan—complemented by unique quantitative breeding data from Van Cortlandt Park censuses from 1937 to 2015. Gains and losses of breeding species are tracked and discussed as an expanding New York City inexorably extinguished unique habitat, offset only slightly by addition of two large reservoirs. Comparisons are provided with analogous data from heavily monitored Central and Prospect Parks. The tradeoffs in attempting to managing an urban park area for mass recreation at the same time as conserving its natural resources are highlighted.Less
This book offers the first quantitative long-term historical analysis of the migratory, winter, and breeding avifaunas of any New York City natural area—Van Cortlandt Park and the adjacent Northwest Bronx—and spans the century and a half from 1872 to 2016. Only Manhattan’s Central and Brooklyn’s Prospect Parks have published even lightly annotated cumulative species lists, last updated in 1967, and the most recent book addressing the birdlife of the New York City area was published more than 50 years ago. Addressed are the 301 Bronx, New York City and New York City area species known to have occurred within the study area, plus another 70 potential additions. These are contrasted with their status in adjacent Riverdale, the entire Bronx, Central and Prospect Parks, New York City, plus Long Island, Westchester, and Rockland Cos. The history of the 123 known study area breeding species are tracked from 1872—only 20 years after Audubon’s death in Manhattan—complemented by unique quantitative breeding data from Van Cortlandt Park censuses from 1937 to 2015. Gains and losses of breeding species are tracked and discussed as an expanding New York City inexorably extinguished unique habitat, offset only slightly by addition of two large reservoirs. Comparisons are provided with analogous data from heavily monitored Central and Prospect Parks. The tradeoffs in attempting to managing an urban park area for mass recreation at the same time as conserving its natural resources are highlighted.
Franklin E. Zimring
- Published in print:
- 2011
- Published Online:
- May 2012
- ISBN:
- 9780199844425
- eISBN:
- 9780199943357
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199844425.003.0003
- Subject:
- Sociology, Law, Crime and Deviance
This chapter is a wide-ranging survey of population, social, and economic factors thought to influence crime trends. It marches through various data sets to test continuity or structural change in ...
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This chapter is a wide-ranging survey of population, social, and economic factors thought to influence crime trends. It marches through various data sets to test continuity or structural change in the city over two decades. A concluding section summarizes a view of the meaning of this empirical montage. The bottom line is a mixed verdict. One of New York's four biggest boroughs—Manhattan—showed big social changes in the period after 1990 that could help explain a major crime drop. The other three major boroughs—Queens, Brooklyn, and the Bronx—were not transformed in such a similar fashion.Less
This chapter is a wide-ranging survey of population, social, and economic factors thought to influence crime trends. It marches through various data sets to test continuity or structural change in the city over two decades. A concluding section summarizes a view of the meaning of this empirical montage. The bottom line is a mixed verdict. One of New York's four biggest boroughs—Manhattan—showed big social changes in the period after 1990 that could help explain a major crime drop. The other three major boroughs—Queens, Brooklyn, and the Bronx—were not transformed in such a similar fashion.
Neil J. Sullivan
- Published in print:
- 2008
- Published Online:
- October 2011
- ISBN:
- 9780195331837
- eISBN:
- 9780199851607
- Item type:
- book
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780195331837.001.0001
- Subject:
- History, American History: 20th Century
Timed to be released at the start of 2008 spring training, this book chronicles the entire history of a stadium that was home to the greatest dynasty in sports history, a stadium that saw its final ...
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Timed to be released at the start of 2008 spring training, this book chronicles the entire history of a stadium that was home to the greatest dynasty in sports history, a stadium that saw its final Yankees game in 2008. As a part of the cultural history of baseball and of New York City, this book offers an account of the history of Yankee Stadium and its position at the intersection of sports, business, government, and society. The author tells how Yankee Stadium came to be built in 1923, at a time when the Bronx was a burgeoning borough that held middle-class housing for immigrants as well as hunting lodges for wealthy Manhattanites, an era when small children could ride the subway, alone, to the ball game, and when many of the ballplayers themselves lived on the Grand Concourse. As the city and the Bronx changed, Yankeedom changed too, and the stadium is now surrounded by parking lots, symbolic of the team's suburban fan base and the decline of the South Bronx. In recent years the team has threatened to leave New York City, prompting extravagant proposals for keeping it there, including a billion-dollar new stadium in Manhattan to be financed with public money. The resulting stadium controversy tells us much about the public's changing views of government and the changing nature of professional sports.Less
Timed to be released at the start of 2008 spring training, this book chronicles the entire history of a stadium that was home to the greatest dynasty in sports history, a stadium that saw its final Yankees game in 2008. As a part of the cultural history of baseball and of New York City, this book offers an account of the history of Yankee Stadium and its position at the intersection of sports, business, government, and society. The author tells how Yankee Stadium came to be built in 1923, at a time when the Bronx was a burgeoning borough that held middle-class housing for immigrants as well as hunting lodges for wealthy Manhattanites, an era when small children could ride the subway, alone, to the ball game, and when many of the ballplayers themselves lived on the Grand Concourse. As the city and the Bronx changed, Yankeedom changed too, and the stadium is now surrounded by parking lots, symbolic of the team's suburban fan base and the decline of the South Bronx. In recent years the team has threatened to leave New York City, prompting extravagant proposals for keeping it there, including a billion-dollar new stadium in Manhattan to be financed with public money. The resulting stadium controversy tells us much about the public's changing views of government and the changing nature of professional sports.
Ousmane Oumar Kane
- Published in print:
- 2011
- Published Online:
- May 2011
- ISBN:
- 9780199732302
- eISBN:
- 9780199894611
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199732302.003.0003
- Subject:
- Religion, Religion and Society, Islam
This chapter addresses the formation process of Senegalese neighborhoods. It identifies three areas with large concentrations of Senegalese people: the enclave in Harlem called “Little Senegal” or “ ...
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This chapter addresses the formation process of Senegalese neighborhoods. It identifies three areas with large concentrations of Senegalese people: the enclave in Harlem called “Little Senegal” or “ Little Africa”; the enclave “Fuuta Town” in Brooklyn, which comprises a majority of Haal Pulaar, predominantly from Senegal who are living with co-ethnics from Mauritania, Mali, and Guinea; and the Bronx, where a Senegalese community is now established.Less
This chapter addresses the formation process of Senegalese neighborhoods. It identifies three areas with large concentrations of Senegalese people: the enclave in Harlem called “Little Senegal” or “ Little Africa”; the enclave “Fuuta Town” in Brooklyn, which comprises a majority of Haal Pulaar, predominantly from Senegal who are living with co-ethnics from Mauritania, Mali, and Guinea; and the Bronx, where a Senegalese community is now established.
Lamed Shapiro
Leah Garrett (ed.)
- Published in print:
- 2007
- Published Online:
- October 2013
- ISBN:
- 9780300110692
- eISBN:
- 9780300134698
- Item type:
- book
- Publisher:
- Yale University Press
- DOI:
- 10.12987/yale/9780300110692.001.0001
- Subject:
- Literature, American, 20th Century Literature
Lamed Shapiro (1878–1948) was the author of groundbreaking and controversial short stories, novellas, and essays. Himself a tragic figure, Shapiro led a life marked by frequent ocean crossing, ...
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Lamed Shapiro (1878–1948) was the author of groundbreaking and controversial short stories, novellas, and essays. Himself a tragic figure, Shapiro led a life marked by frequent ocean crossing, alcoholism, and failed ventures, yet his writings are models of precision, psychological insight, and daring. Shapiro focuses intently on the nature of violence: the mob violence of pogroms committed against Jews; the traumatic after-effects of rape, murder, and powerlessness; and, the murderous event that transforms the innocent child into witness and the rabbi's son into agitator. Within a society on the move, Shapiro's refugees from the shtetl and the traditional way of life are in desperate search of food, shelter, love, and things of beauty. Remarkably, and against all odds, they sometimes find what they are looking for. More often than not, the climax of their lives is an experience of ineffable terror. This book also reveals Lamed Shapiro as an American master. His writings depict the Old World struggling with the New, extremes of human behaviour combined with the pursuit of normal happiness. Through the perceptions of a remarkable gallery of men, women, children—even of animals and plants—Shapiro successfully reclaimed the lost world of the shtetl as he negotiated East Broadway and the Bronx, Union Square, and vaudeville.Less
Lamed Shapiro (1878–1948) was the author of groundbreaking and controversial short stories, novellas, and essays. Himself a tragic figure, Shapiro led a life marked by frequent ocean crossing, alcoholism, and failed ventures, yet his writings are models of precision, psychological insight, and daring. Shapiro focuses intently on the nature of violence: the mob violence of pogroms committed against Jews; the traumatic after-effects of rape, murder, and powerlessness; and, the murderous event that transforms the innocent child into witness and the rabbi's son into agitator. Within a society on the move, Shapiro's refugees from the shtetl and the traditional way of life are in desperate search of food, shelter, love, and things of beauty. Remarkably, and against all odds, they sometimes find what they are looking for. More often than not, the climax of their lives is an experience of ineffable terror. This book also reveals Lamed Shapiro as an American master. His writings depict the Old World struggling with the New, extremes of human behaviour combined with the pursuit of normal happiness. Through the perceptions of a remarkable gallery of men, women, children—even of animals and plants—Shapiro successfully reclaimed the lost world of the shtetl as he negotiated East Broadway and the Bronx, Union Square, and vaudeville.
Bruce Dancis
- Published in print:
- 2014
- Published Online:
- August 2016
- ISBN:
- 9780801452420
- eISBN:
- 9780801470417
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Cornell University Press
- DOI:
- 10.7591/cornell/9780801452420.003.0002
- Subject:
- History, American History: 20th Century
In this chapter, the author presents a brief account of his growing up in a secular Jewish home in New York City during the 1950s and early 1960s, along with his encounter with racism and ...
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In this chapter, the author presents a brief account of his growing up in a secular Jewish home in New York City during the 1950s and early 1960s, along with his encounter with racism and anti-Semitism in the heart of the Bronx. The author was born on May 14, 1948, and raised in Parkchester, a housing development in the east Bronx. His parents, who were socialists and integrationists, met in the Young People’s Socialist League (YPSL), the youth group of the Socialist Party of America, in the late 1920s. The author first reflects on his first night in the federal prison in Ashland, Kentucky, on May 29, 1969 before looking back at his growing up years: how he learned about anti-Semitism and racial prejudice; apartheid in the Bronx; his participation in the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom on August 28, 1963 and in Freedom Run on March 14–16, 1965; and his involvement with the civil rights movement that began during his student years at the Bronx High School of Science.Less
In this chapter, the author presents a brief account of his growing up in a secular Jewish home in New York City during the 1950s and early 1960s, along with his encounter with racism and anti-Semitism in the heart of the Bronx. The author was born on May 14, 1948, and raised in Parkchester, a housing development in the east Bronx. His parents, who were socialists and integrationists, met in the Young People’s Socialist League (YPSL), the youth group of the Socialist Party of America, in the late 1920s. The author first reflects on his first night in the federal prison in Ashland, Kentucky, on May 29, 1969 before looking back at his growing up years: how he learned about anti-Semitism and racial prejudice; apartheid in the Bronx; his participation in the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom on August 28, 1963 and in Freedom Run on March 14–16, 1965; and his involvement with the civil rights movement that began during his student years at the Bronx High School of Science.
Margaret M. McGuinness
- Published in print:
- 2012
- Published Online:
- September 2012
- ISBN:
- 9780823239870
- eISBN:
- 9780823239917
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Fordham University Press
- DOI:
- 10.5422/fordham/9780823239870.003.0004
- Subject:
- Religion, History of Christianity
Twenty years after the founding of Madonna House, the Sisters of Christian Doctrine opened a second social settlement. Located in the Bronx, Ave Maria House offered the traditional programs founded ...
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Twenty years after the founding of Madonna House, the Sisters of Christian Doctrine opened a second social settlement. Located in the Bronx, Ave Maria House offered the traditional programs founded in settlement houses, along with religious education classes and sacramental preparation. During the Depression, the sisters stationed at Madonna House operated a bread line for men looking for work. They demonstrated their patriotism during the Second World War by organizing various activities designed to support American troops serving overseas. Because the community received very little financial support from the Archdiocese of New York, they were often reduced to “collecting,” or begging, to fund their ministries. During the 1960s, when changes in social welfare policies combined with deteriorating physical plants made it impractical to continue operating social settlements, the Sisters of Christian Doctrine closed Madonna House and Ave Maria House.Less
Twenty years after the founding of Madonna House, the Sisters of Christian Doctrine opened a second social settlement. Located in the Bronx, Ave Maria House offered the traditional programs founded in settlement houses, along with religious education classes and sacramental preparation. During the Depression, the sisters stationed at Madonna House operated a bread line for men looking for work. They demonstrated their patriotism during the Second World War by organizing various activities designed to support American troops serving overseas. Because the community received very little financial support from the Archdiocese of New York, they were often reduced to “collecting,” or begging, to fund their ministries. During the 1960s, when changes in social welfare policies combined with deteriorating physical plants made it impractical to continue operating social settlements, the Sisters of Christian Doctrine closed Madonna House and Ave Maria House.
Marianne E. Krasny and Keith G. Tidball
- Published in print:
- 2015
- Published Online:
- September 2015
- ISBN:
- 9780262028653
- eISBN:
- 9780262327169
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- The MIT Press
- DOI:
- 10.7551/mitpress/9780262028653.003.0011
- Subject:
- Environmental Science, Environmental Studies
Three general steps move civic ecology practices from small local innovations to broader policy innovations: giving a label to the phenomenon (in our case “civic ecology”); becoming more effective as ...
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Three general steps move civic ecology practices from small local innovations to broader policy innovations: giving a label to the phenomenon (in our case “civic ecology”); becoming more effective as local providers of ecosystem services and contributors to community well-being through partnerships with scientists; and government and larger NGOs formulating policies that allow civic ecology practices to spread. Civic ecology practices are small social or “social-ecological innovations,” whereas larger NGOs and government agencies are policy entrepreneurs who shape the policy environment. Policy entrepreneurs can also bridge between multiple civic ecology practices and larger management initiatives to form regional adaptive and collaborative resource management systems.Less
Three general steps move civic ecology practices from small local innovations to broader policy innovations: giving a label to the phenomenon (in our case “civic ecology”); becoming more effective as local providers of ecosystem services and contributors to community well-being through partnerships with scientists; and government and larger NGOs formulating policies that allow civic ecology practices to spread. Civic ecology practices are small social or “social-ecological innovations,” whereas larger NGOs and government agencies are policy entrepreneurs who shape the policy environment. Policy entrepreneurs can also bridge between multiple civic ecology practices and larger management initiatives to form regional adaptive and collaborative resource management systems.
Joseph B. Raskin
- Published in print:
- 2013
- Published Online:
- May 2014
- ISBN:
- 9780823253692
- eISBN:
- 9780823261109
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Fordham University Press
- DOI:
- 10.5422/fordham/9780823253692.003.0004
- Subject:
- History, American History: 20th Century
This chapter discusses the efforts to extend subway service into the Northeast Bronx. Originally proposed in 1928 as an extension of the IND Concourse Line, it would take on other forms. The task of ...
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This chapter discusses the efforts to extend subway service into the Northeast Bronx. Originally proposed in 1928 as an extension of the IND Concourse Line, it would take on other forms. The task of building this line would eventually embroil the community groups and elected officials in that region into a struggle against each other over the routing of the line that would best suit their needs. Many of these groups also found themselves coming into conflict with Robert Moses (in his role as New York City Parks Commissioner), who had proposed to build a highway through that area that would have interfered with, if not prevented the construction of the subway line. Chapter 8 discusses how this controversy came to a conclusion.Less
This chapter discusses the efforts to extend subway service into the Northeast Bronx. Originally proposed in 1928 as an extension of the IND Concourse Line, it would take on other forms. The task of building this line would eventually embroil the community groups and elected officials in that region into a struggle against each other over the routing of the line that would best suit their needs. Many of these groups also found themselves coming into conflict with Robert Moses (in his role as New York City Parks Commissioner), who had proposed to build a highway through that area that would have interfered with, if not prevented the construction of the subway line. Chapter 8 discusses how this controversy came to a conclusion.
Jan Haldipur
- Published in print:
- 2018
- Published Online:
- May 2019
- ISBN:
- 9781479869084
- eISBN:
- 9781479871407
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- NYU Press
- DOI:
- 10.18574/nyu/9781479869084.003.0006
- Subject:
- Sociology, Law, Crime and Deviance
This chapter explores the unanticipated consequences of aggressive policing and looks into some potential policy recommendations. The author ties in interview data from outside stakeholders, like a ...
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This chapter explores the unanticipated consequences of aggressive policing and looks into some potential policy recommendations. The author ties in interview data from outside stakeholders, like a New York City Housing Authority Tenant Association president and a high-ranking assistant district attorney from the Bronx District Attorney’s office, in order to help illustrate exactly what type of impact aggressive policing can have on outcomes such as securing a conviction. As the data suggests, these police tactics can significantly affect a prosecutor’s ability to obtain witness testimony as well as receive a favorable decision from a jury.Less
This chapter explores the unanticipated consequences of aggressive policing and looks into some potential policy recommendations. The author ties in interview data from outside stakeholders, like a New York City Housing Authority Tenant Association president and a high-ranking assistant district attorney from the Bronx District Attorney’s office, in order to help illustrate exactly what type of impact aggressive policing can have on outcomes such as securing a conviction. As the data suggests, these police tactics can significantly affect a prosecutor’s ability to obtain witness testimony as well as receive a favorable decision from a jury.
