PDF-(BOOS)-Brownsville, Brooklyn: Blacks, Jews, and the Changing Face of the Ghetto (Historical

From its founding in the late 1800s through the 1950s Brownsville a section of eastern Brooklyn was a white predominantly Jewish workingclass neighborhood The famous New York district nurtured the aspirations of thousands of upwardly mobile Americans while the infamous gangsters of Murder Incorporated controlled its streets But during the 1960s Brownsville was stigmatized as a black and Latino ghetto a neighborhood with one of the citys highest crime rates Home to the largest concentration of public housing units in the city Brownsville came to be viewed as emblematic of urban decline And yet at the same time the neighborhood still supported a wide variety of grassroots movements for social changeThe story of these two different but in many ways similar Brownsvilles is compellingly told in this probing new work Focusing on the interaction of Brownsville residents with New Yorks political and institutional elites Wendell Pritchett shows how the profound economic and social changes of postWorld War II America affected the area He covers a number of pivotal episodes in Brownsvilles history as well the rise and fall of interracial organizations the struggles to deal with deteriorating housing and the battles over local schools that culminated in the famous 1968 Teachers Strike Far from just a cautionary tale of failed policies and institutional neglect the story of Brownsvilles transformation he finds is one of mutual struggle and frustrated cooperation among whites blacks and Latinos Ultimately Brownsville Brooklyn reminds us how workingclass neighborhoods have played and continue to play a central role in American history It is a story that needs to be read by all those concerned with the many challenges facing Americas cities today. 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The guide covers every one of Brooklyn\'s forty-four neighborhoods, from Greenpoint to Coney Island, providing a colorful portrait of each section\'s most interesting, unusual, and unknown people, places, and things. Along the way you will learn about a Greenpoint park devoted to plants and trees that produce materials used in industry a hornsmith who practices his craft in Prospect-Lefferts Gardens a collection of 1,140 stuffed animals hanging from a tree in Bergen Beach a five-story Brownsville mural that depicts Zionist leader Theodor Herzl--and that was the brainchild of black teenagers Brooklyn\'s most private--yet public--beach in Manhattan Beach and much, much more. 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