The South Bronx: Deconstruction of a Neighborhood’s Reconstruction
Date/Time
07/18/2012 - 6:30 PM
$12 Non-members; $8 Seniors and Students; $6 Museum Members
Location
Museum of the City of New York, 1220 Fifth Ave.
212-534-1672
Official site/reserve tickets
The bisection of the South Bronx by Robert Moses’s Cross-Bronx Expressway in the 1950s created the friction that, two decades later, ignited neighborhoods from Melrose to Hunts Point. Many residents began to organize and fight for their houses and streets, even while “the Bronx was burning.” Join Harry DeRienzo, President of Banana Kelly Community Improvement Association, and Kellie Terry-Sepulveda, Executive Director of the Point Community Development Corporation, as they share stories of persistence, political pressure, and how the occasional stroke of luck laid the foundation for the revival of these neighborhoods, and for the struggles that continue today.
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