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Re: Gates Ave Re: Housing Projects Re: Jane Jacobs Re: Cross Manhattan expressway |
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Posted by Jackson Park B Train on Sat Jul 28 17:34:50 2007, in response to Re: Gates Ave Re: Housing Projects Re: Jane Jacobs Re: Cross Manhattan expressway, posted by JohnnyMints on Sat Jul 28 15:23:30 2007. Some thoughts from a 60+ year old who lived through some of this history though not all in NY. Do I believe an ACTIVE well planned centralized promotion of dope among urban blacks? Not per se, but in terms of negligence, corrupt cops, racist attitudes, hell yes. Anectdote from my youth: summer w/granddad in Chicago head to the Loop w/some other neighborhood boys (12-14) talk our way into the Fire Dept Central office and get the 'nickel' tour from one of the guys. He shows us a "model board" with lights showing which fire stations are out on a call. He explains trhat this board is replicated in each firehouse so they are aware. There is one station light set some distance from all the others--I inquire what, why. Oh that's Englewood, the n------ are always having fires we don't bother telling anyone else about that. A conversation w/ my aunt later on brings the comment that in the black neighborhoods the slumlords illegally fail to heat the apartments so the residents have little stoves in their own spaces thus many fires. Classic. The city could have forced the slumlords to provide heat, they didn't. Would this happen in a "nicer" neighborhood? I think not.Transit content: spend time analysing bus deployment/subway car class assignments, sometimes the "pain" of low performing units is widely spread as rush hour trippers sometimes the junk is concentrated in specific areas. Background: The GI bill and its sibling acts facilitated mass exodus from city apartments to suburban housing subdivisions on the cheap which in turn drove both auto usage and highway construction. Remember too this was an era when not only banks, insurance co's, and realtors "steered" blacks away from certain areas, sellers and buyers signed covenants not to allow Negros, Jews, Armenians and others to buy or rent. With transit haters like Moses came the end of subway expansion while freeways metastised. The morning the Dan Ryan Expwy opened in Chicago, the Rock Island and Illinois Central commute lines it paralleld lost 5000 riders. Meanwhile, the expway construction had destroyed many thousands of apartments whose residents were 'herded' into the Taylor, Ida B Wells etc--some of the nastiest projects ever. During the same period Daley's stooge running the schools kept putting portables (Willis wagons) on the playgrounds @ black schools while whites fled to the 'burbs abd parochial schools as neighborhoods were blockbusted. Current reality: zipcode based insurance redlining means a friend/sometime roommate borrowed an address 5 blocks away--but in Berkeley--to save several hundred $$ a year on auto insurance. Irony dept: In my transit archive I have a BART newsletter bragging about the slum clearance surrounding a station then under construction. In the last decade the city of Oakland spent many millions to build a "transit village" there which is not yet fully leased. |
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