The Urban Warzone (How Did the Bronx Burn?) 

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For anyone wondering, the audio at the end (where he talks about buying an apartment block for $1000) is from The Fire Next Door, by Bill Moyers. It's on youtube.

I grew up in the Bronx during the 60s. I agree it was very different back then.I bemoan its loss. I recall seeing whole city blocks full of habitable buildings slated to be demolished to make way for shiny new projects that later become hubs of crime and neglect. But the metamorphisis can't be blamed on just one thing. Many factors contributed. The expansive national highway systems, love of cars, globalism, crime, and local /national policies that were meant well.

Thank you! That scratched my itch about how this tragedy came to be. Fascinating how people of one neighbourhood suffered while the rest were watching

Once the clientele started changing, landlords found it easier and cheaper to light a match and walk away.

Howard Cosell. "The fire department has it under control..." Howard, did you see a _single_ red or blue light flashing in that shot? No you did not. The fire wasn't under control, it just ran out of building. My Dad grew up in the South Bronx. As a consequence, he raised me on Roosevelt Island. Man, nyc was insane during the 70s.

There was a documentary showing huge angry demonstrations against the Cross Bronx Expressway project, mostly Italians and Irish residents attended.

1985 I was working in the rebuilding of the apartments in the Bronx for the city as soon as the new apartments were given to tenants at very low rent sometimes even for free we had go back and fix them all over again for the tenants destroy them, broken windows fires in the halls break ins feces every were and so forth.

I would recommend a different color than orange outline for the subtitles, kinda hard on the eyes

i wasn't even alive, but the 1970s was crazy. almost right

Been living in The Bronx for almost 7 years now. This video broke my heart.

In 1950 2/3rds of the Bonx were white and non-Hispanic. By 1960 2/3rds were Black or Hispanic.

This Never happened in Beijing or Moscow. Ees BOD Seestim, Tovarich! Kidding...or, maybe Not. There used to be a Lot of Factory jobs in the Bronx. That decreased after World War Two. VHA home loans incentivized newly married Veterans to move to Suburban areas in New Jersey, Rockland County, NY and Connecticut. The more prosperous folks moved to Staten Island or Eastern Long Island. The LIRR and Metro North could get you to Wall Street and back from anywhere in the area. The Bronx was crisscrossed with Freeways. The Cross Bronx, Especially, contributed to it's ruination. There was a Lot of Blasting, along with jackhammering, done to build it. The Southernmost (and, at the time, Worst) section of the Bronx, was physically cut off from the rest of the Borough. You know; I think a good portion of the SoBro was ALWAYS a Slum. The Charlotte street area had New Law Tenements, built around 1905, in anticipation of the IRT Subway line. Jews, along with Italians, Irish and other groups, fled the overcrowding of the Lower East Side, and also Harlem, when IT began to turn African-American in the 1920s. West Harlem was ruined by Speculative Real Estate Practices, along with Blockbusting. Buildings went up in anticipation of the "A" Train. East Harlem went up in the 1870s-1880s, following the construction of the Lexington Elevated Line. It consisted of Tenements. While tenement buildings are in the Public Imagination, when thinking about the Old South Bronx, there is Also a LOT of Public Housing in that Borough, along with the rest of NYC. And, Unlike in most other major American Cities...it's still standing. That Experiment Failed, and it's the reason why the Bronx, and Brownsville Brooklyn (which is chockablock FILLED with High Rise Projects) have problems. The Latter, Especially, is the Only part of the Five Borough area which hasn't improved since the Early Nineties. Many Puerto Ricans moved into the South Bronx after the War, seeking a Better Life. They have since been supplanted by Dominicans, and other Latino groups, along with people from the West Indies, and some Native Africans.

music sources please?

Well done, I want more of this content 🙏

Extremely interesting and horrifying. Busing seems to merit one fleeting mention but caused how much of this trouble, eg the white flight described fairly early here? Please redo this presentation with clear oral narration instead of that goofy music.

When the Bronx in 1970s same housing was bunting because of the fire 🔥 pugs the water was turned off nyc channel 31 showed the city turned them off

The landlords

The graphics were hard to read

HBO should do a documentary or docufilm called the Bronx is Burning

Who sing the song in this someone please let me know😊

IT'S JUST THAT SOME PEOPLE DON'T CARE MY MOM AND DAD LIVED IN THE SOUTH BRONX FROM 71' TO 74' THEN IN 78 BOUGHT THIER FIRST HOME THAT'S THE DIFFERENCE MOVE UP OR STAY THE SAME

The Bronx still is beautiful, truly beautiful in places, and is a hidden gem of the city. I hope that whom ever decides to live there is able to take care of their communities in a meaningful way. That should be part of the greater legacy legacy our city offers to its inhabitants.

jewish lightning was at an all time high

In 2023, homes in the Bronx are askin $400,000.

This exactly was going to happen to Manhattan with all those illegals that have come . 😂

Make America great AGAIN?

How? Democrats in charge

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