LEADER 04918nam 2200673 450 001 9910460133503321 005 20200520144314.0 010 $a0-8014-5518-9 024 7 $a10.7591/9780801455186 035 $a(CKB)3710000000311099 035 $a(OCoLC)897815028 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebrary10993842 035 $a(SSID)ssj0001382540 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)12604111 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0001382540 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)11459097 035 $a(PQKB)10900841 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC3138686 035 $a(OCoLC)1080550911 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse58430 035 $a(DE-B1597)496436 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780801455186 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL3138686 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10993842 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL751612 035 $a(EXLCZ)993710000000311099 100 $a20141220h20152015 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcnu|||||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aCrossing Broadway $eWashington Heights and the promise of New York City /$fRobert W. Snyder ; cover design by Scott Levine ; cover photography by Matthew Gallaway 210 1$aIthaca, New York :$cCornell University Press,$d2015. 210 4$dİ2015 215 $a1 online resource (309 p.) 300 $aIncludes index. 311 $a1-336-20326-9 311 $a0-8014-4961-8 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $tFront matter --$tContents --$tMaps --$tPrologue. A Place I Thought I Knew --$tChapter 1. An Ordinary Neighborhood In An Extraordinary City --$tChapter 2. A Useless And Terrible Death --$tChapter 3. Apartness Rules Our Roost --$tChapter 4. In The Shadow Of The South Bronx --$tChapter 5. Crack Years --$tChapter 6. A New Neighborhood In A New City --$tEpilogue. Bittersweet Victory --$tAcknowledgments --$tNotes --$tIndex 330 $aIn the 1970's, when the South Bronx burned and the promise of New Deal New York and postwar America gave way to despair, the people of Washington Heights at the northern tip of Manhattan were increasingly vulnerable. The Heights had long been a neighborhood where generations of newcomers-Irish, Jewish, Greek, African American, Cuban, and Puerto Rican-carved out better lives in their adopted city. But as New York City shifted from an industrial base to a service economy, new immigrants from the Dominican Republic struggled to gain a foothold. Then the crack epidemic of the 1980's and the drug wars sent Washington Heights to the brink of an urban nightmare. But it did not go over the edge. Robert W. Snyder's Crossing Broadway tells how disparate groups overcame their mutual suspicions to rehabilitate housing, build new schools, restore parks, and work with the police to bring safety to streets racked by crime and fear. It shows how a neighborhood once nicknamed "Frankfurt on the Hudson" for its large population of German Jews became "Quisqueya Heights"-the home of the nation's largest Dominican community. The story of Washington Heights illuminates New York City's long passage from the Great Depression and World War II through the urban crisis to the globalization and economic inequality of the twenty-first century. Washington Heights residents played crucial roles in saving their neighborhood, but its future as a home for working-class and middle-class people is by no means assured. The growing gap between rich and poor in contemporary New York puts new pressure on the Heights as more affluent newcomers move into buildings that once sustained generations of wage earners and the owners of small businesses. Crossing Broadway is based on historical research, reporting, and oral histories. Its narrative is powered by the stories of real people whose lives illuminate what was won and lost in northern Manhattan's journey from the past to the present. A tribute to a great American neighborhood, this book shows how residents learned to cross Broadway-over the decades a boundary that has separated black and white, Jews and Irish, Dominican-born and American-born-and make common cause in pursuit of one of the most precious rights: the right to make a home and build a better life in New York City. 606 $aElectronic books 606 $aHISTORY / United States / State & Local / Middle Atlantic (DC, DE, MD, NJ, NY, PA)$2bisacsh 607 $aWashington Heights (New York, N.Y.)$xSocial conditions$y20th century 608 $aElectronic books. 615 0$aElectronic books. 615 7$aHISTORY / United States / State & Local / Middle Atlantic (DC, DE, MD, NJ, NY, PA). 676 $a974.7/1 700 $aSnyder$b Robert W.$f1955-$01012891 702 $aLevine$b Scott 702 $aGallaway$b Matthew 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910460133503321 996 $aCrossing Broadway$92460545 997 $aUNINA