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Slum upgrading is an integrated approach that aims to turn around downward trends in an area. These downward trends can be legal (land tenure), physical (infrastructure), social (crime or education, for example) or economic."
It was the first instance in which Robert Moses' practice of "honest graft"—the method by which Slum Clearance chairman Moses distributed premiums, contracts and retainers to favored and incompetent friends—was revealed in the press. Under Title I, the plot of tenements worth $15 million (equivalent to $192 million in 2023) had been sold ...
The Emergency Relief and Construction Act of 1932 approved slum clearance loans and new low-rent housing, yet New York City was the only place where development occurred under the act. In 1933, the act was replaced with the National Industrial Recovery Act which focused on slum clearance and home construction for low-income families and ...
A rat-poop-filled Brooklyn apartment building has become the priciest slum in New York, residents claim. Multiple residents of the battered Bushwick site on Starr Street say they are paying nearly ...
Gray's Papaya. Address: 2090 Broadway Neighborhood: Upper West Side Hours: Sunday – Wednesday: 8 a.m. to 10 p.m.; Thursday – Saturday: 8 a.m. to 11 p.m. Phone: 212-799-0243 Website ...
New York City view, c. 1894. The history of New York City provides context for understanding gentrification in New York City. From the settlement of Manhattan Island, a Lenape settlement brought to Peter Minuit in 1624 during the Dutch colonization of the Americas in what would later become New Amsterdam, to the British taking New Amsterdam from the Dutch in 1664 and renaming it New York City ...
The newspaper determined that to be considered middle class in New York City, a person must earn between $45,000 and $134,000 per year. (Some NYC residents argued in the article that $250,000 ...
Permanent, federally funded housing came into being in the United States as a part of Franklin Roosevelt's New Deal. Title II, Section 202 of the National Industrial Recovery Act, passed June 16, 1933, directed the Public Works Administration (PWA) to develop a program for the "construction, reconstruction, alteration, or repair under public regulation or control of low-cost housing and slum ...