South Bronx Rising – The Rise, Fall, and Resurrection of an American City

Preface to the Third Edition | ix
Foreword by Nilka Martell | xv
Introduction: Do Not Give Way to Evil | 3
1. ¿It Is a Veritable Paradise,¿ 1639¿1900 | 11
2. The First Boom, 1900¿1922 | 27
3. Boss Flynn, 1922 | 41
4. ¿The Bronx Is a Great City,¿ 1923¿1929 | 51
5. ¿Hard Hit by the Depression,¿ 1929¿1932 | 65
6. The New Deal Years, 1933¿1939 | 78
7. War Fever, 1939¿1945 | 85
8. The Diaspora after the War, 1946¿1953 | 91
9. ¿There Was No Standing Still,¿ 1952¿1953 | 105
10. ¿Moses Thinks He¿s God,¿ 1954¿1959 | 117
11. The New Boss, 1959¿1963 | 127
12. ¿Horse Was the New Thing,¿ 1960 | 137
13. The New ¿Other Half,¿ 1962¿1966 | 144
14. The Pondiac¿s Last Hurrah, 1961¿1967 | 153
15. The Puerto Rican and the Priest, 1962¿1967 | 164
16. Mau-mauing the City, 1967 | 175
17. Who Will Be Caudillo?, 1968¿1969 | 182
18. ¿The Whole Place Was Caving In,¿ 1969¿1970 | 199
19. Interlude: Sweet Days on Charlotte Street, 1925¿1951 | 205
20. Charlotte Street: It Was Not a ¿Good¿ Neighborhood, 1951¿1961 | 219
21. Charlotte Street: ¿What a Madhouse It Was,¿ 1961¿1968 | 225
22. Charlotte Street: The Fires, 1969¿1973 | 231
23. Charlotte Street: The Gangs, 1970¿1975 | 236
24. Charlotte Street: The Collapse, 1973¿1975 | 249
25. The Grand Concourse, 1965¿1969 | 268
26. The Hotel and the Concourse, 1969¿1976 | 281
27. Roosevelt Gardens, 1974¿1975 | 288
28. The Grass Roots, 1974¿1977 | 300
29. The President¿s Magic Visit, 1977¿1978 | 311
30. Disenchantment, 1979¿1980 | 324
31. Charlotte Street and National Politics, 1980 | 333
32. ¿The Next Part of the South Bronx,¿ 1972¿1978 | 345
33. ¿We¿re Still Here,¿ 1978¿1982 | 363
34. White Picket Fences, 1984 | 376
35. ¿South Bronx Rising,¿ 1985¿2002 | 389
36. Still the Poorest Urban Congressional
District in America, 2003¿Mid-March 2020 | 441
Covid Afterword | 515
Acknowledgments for the Third Edition | 547
Notes | 551
Bibliography | 569
Third Edition Bibliography | 579
Index | 581