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This chapter looks at the impact of the 1984 Jesse Jackson campaign on black and Latino Progressives in New York City. It shows that voter registration and fund-raising drives begun during the Jackson campaign continued after 1984 in order to leverage the political power of black and Latino voters and thereby help unseat Mayor Ed Koch in 1989. The chapter also discusses the role of black and Latino coalitions in the campaigns of José Serrano for Bronx borough president against white incumbent Stanley Simon in 1985; David Dinkins for Manhattan borough president in 1985; and Jesse Jackson for president in 1988.

This chapter describes stories covered by the City Sun from 1984 to 1985. These include the paper’s crusade for the family of Eleanor Bumpurs, a sixty-seven-year-old grandmother who was shot and killed by police after she resisted being evicted from her Bronx apartment; the paper’s strong dissatisfaction with the policies of mayor Ed Koch; Cooper’s doubts about the credibility of mayoral candidate Herman D. (Denny) Farrell, a black assemblyman from Manhattan; and the case against Transit Authority police in the death of Michael Stewart, a twenty-five-year-old graffiti artist arrested for allegedly defacing a subway station at Fourteenth Street and First Avenue.

In 1980s New York City, residents and officials grappled with the extraordinary growth of people experiencing homelessness residing in public spaces. Public homelessness emerged at a time of rising value of public spaces, which finally began to receive infusions of public and private capital after years of neglect—a development homeless bodies seemed to threaten. The city’s seeming inability to stem public homelessness led private sector actors and the quasi-public officials who oversaw the subways and major Manhattan transportation centers where the homeless resided in the greatest numbers to implement more punitive policies as a solution to public homelessness. Buttressed by new legal measures that expanded private sector governance over public space, these tactics ultimately influenced officials’ adoption of similarly aggressive measures toward public homelessness to protect the enhanced value of public space.

This chapter describes stories covered by the City Sun in 1986. The editors of the paper de-emphasized reports about Mayor Koch, and invested more of their time on local activists’ involvement in Haiti and South Africa. Throughout the year, the City Sun kept readers focused on apartheid in South Africa and the regional war against the white minority regime by neighboring black states.

Introduces the reader to the earliest stages of the Park’s conception and development – from the closing of the dilapidated piers along the Brooklyn Heights waterfront in 1983 to the announcement of the Port Authority’s plans to open the abandoned property to commercial development in 1984.

President Finlay accelerates the transformation of Fordham into a residential university. The waning of the Jesuit presence presents a challenge of maintaining Fordham’s Catholic identity. Fordham becomes involved in efforts to revive the Bronx. Thomas More College is merged with Fordham College at Rose Hill. Fordham establishes an affiliation with Marymount College in Tarrytown.