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"Every place needs a chronicler, and Jill Jonnes is the chronicler par excellence of the South Bronx."
-Alexander Von Hoffman, Joint Center for Housing Studies, Harvard University"South Bronx Rising is the superb recounting of what happened in what was once the most infamous area of New York City. At the time, it was perceived by most of America as literally on fire. Beginning in 1986 with the $5.1 billion, ten-year housing plan my administration created, the South Bronx began to rise like a phoenix. It is one of the greatest accomplishments of my administration, and it all started on Charlotte Street, to which mayors of New York City took Presidents of the United States who came away at the time thinking they were visiting bombed-out Berlin immediately after World War II. Today, the South Bronx is rebuilt and filled with homes, businesses, and children. The book accurately recounts what happened in a very interesting way."
-Edward L. Koch, Former Mayor of New York City
South Bronx Rising "Jill Jonnes wrote the
definitive account of one of the great urban tragedies of the 1970's and
1980's: the near destruction of a large part of New York City through an
epidemic of abandonment, vandalism, and arson. But even while the
conflagration raged, determined citizens were trying to stop it, and in this
new edition of her book she tells us how the epidemic was contained and the
Bronx was in large measure rebuilt." |
