Robert Moses is unarguably one of the greatest influences in the development of New York City. What is arguable, and in fact heavily debated, is whether his work had a more positive or negative effect on the city. Continue reading “Robert Moses and the Decline of the NYC Subway System”
WNYC: “Robert Moses and the Transformation of New York”
Kenneth T. Jackson, director of the Herbert H. Lehman Center for the Study of American History and the Jacques Barzun Professor of History and the Social Sciences at Columbia University, where he has also chaired the department of history, and the author of Robert Moses and the Modern City: The Transformation of New York (Norton, 2008), and Lisa Keller, professor of history at SUNY Purchase and the co-editor of The Encyclopedia of New York City (Yale University Press, 2010), talk about Robert Moses for the latest installment of the October election year series, People’s Guide to Power: Real Estate Edition. (Source: WNYC)
Vanishing New York and “hyper-gentrification”
Jeremiah Moss ran the blog Vanishing New York for about a decade before he published a book of the same title. Click on to read an example of his writing from a piece on his blog, “On Spike Lee & Hyper-Gentrification, the monster that ate New York”:
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NYT in 1957: “Bohemian Flair Fades in Village”
Welcome to our seminar! This course will explore aspects of gentrification – a phenomenon noted by The New York Times even back in 1957 in the article below by Ira Henry Freeman.
Does Freeman’s article’s tone and sentiment from 1957 seem similar to your current understanding of gentrification or other debates about gentrification? Is there anything that seems different? Does a primary source like this, a newspaper article from 1957, help us understand the present issues surrounding gentrification and development? Does history tell us anything about the future of New York?
https://files.eportfolios.macaulay.cuny.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/6075/2018/01/16170315/NYT_washsquare_1957.pdf
