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The new Brooklyn what it takes to bring a city back

"Only a few decades ago, the Brooklyn stereotype well known to Americans was typified by television programs such as "The Honeymooners" and "Welcome Back, Kotter"-comedies about working-class sensibilities, deprivation, and struggles. Today, the borough across the East River from Manhattan is home t...

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Main Author: Hymowitz, Kay S., 1948- (Author)
Format: Books Print Book
Language:English
Published: Lanham : Rowman & Littlefield, [2017]
Subjects:
Brooklyn (New York, N.Y.) > History.
Brooklyn (New York, N.Y.) > Social conditions.
Brooklyn (New York, N.Y.) > Economic conditions.
Community development > New York > New Yok (State)
Urban policy > New York > New Yok (State)
Urban renewal > New York (State) > New York.
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Table of Contents:
  • The old Brooklyn, part one
  • The old Brooklyn, part two
  • Park Slope : the new Brooklyn takes shape
  • Haute hippie Williamsburg
  • The Brooklyn Navy Yard : new Brooklyn's new manufacturing
  • Bedford-Stuyvesant : a ghetto in transition-- or is gentrification racist?
  • Brownsville : the permanent ghetto
  • Sunset Park : Chinese immigrants in blue sky Brooklyn
  • Canarsie : West Indians in the promised borough
  • Recovering cities.

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