Whose Bronx?: Decade of Fire Looks Back at a Complicated History of Neighborhood Abandonment and the Rise of Community Control in the South Bronx

Aly Hassell — 2019-07-02T05:05:00Z

Decade of Fire, a new documentary film by lifelong South Bronx resident and first-time filmmaker Vivian Vázquez Irizarry and co‑director Gretchen Hildebran, revisits the South Bronx of the 1970s, when a series of unchecked fires destroyed block after block of the neighborhood, displacing hundreds of thousands of residents.
Decade of Fire investigates the root causes of the fires and attempts to set the record straight about the complex confluence of events that let such flagrant neglect

- Reviews / New York, Bronx, housing, displacement, gentrification

Special Feature: Whose Bronx?

Aly Hassell & Susan Saegert — 2019-07-02T04:00:00Z

As New York City's overheated real-estate market begins to affect the Bronx, researchers and memoirists are rejecting received wisdom about the borough's crisis-ridden past and warning of new threats to the stability of its working-class neighborhoods.
In this special review feature, Aly Hassell comments on the historical documentary Decade of Fire, while Susan Saegert discusses the memoirs of two hard-fighting Bronx housing advocates. Whose Bronx?: Decade of Fire Looks Back at a Complicated

- Reviews / New York, Bronx, hide

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Whose Bronx?: Decade of Fire Looks Back at a Complicated History of Neighborhood Abandonment and the Rise of Community Control in the South Bronx

Special Feature: Whose Bronx?