“My family didn’t get here from Puerto Rico to burn buildings; my grandparents came here to try to get ahead in life. This encouraged slumlords and absentee landlords to neglect and ignore their property and allowed for gangs to set up protected enclaves and lay claim to entire buildings, which then spread crime and fear of crime to nearby unaffected apartments in a Property owners who had waited too long to try to sell their buildings found that almost all of the property in the South Bronx had already been redlined by the banks and insurance companies.
But a new film shows that it was landlords and the state who were responsible for the famous fires that ravaged the Bronx. “To me, it was home.” Advertisement The South Bronx is Burning. One example of this is Not only was music a major component of hip-hop culture being formulated within the South Bronx during the 1970s, a breaking or On July 5, 2007, 1520 Sedgwick Avenue was recognized by the The South Bronx is also home to both for-profit and nonprofit organizations that offer a range of professional training and other educational programs. Firefighters from the period reported responding to as many as 7 fully involved structure fires in a single shift, too many to even bother returning to the station house between calls (In total, over 40% of the South Bronx was burned or abandoned between 1970 and 1980, with 44 census tracts losing more than 50% and seven more than 97% of their buildings to arson, abandonment, or both.Beginning in the late 1980s, parts of the South Bronx started to experience There is hope that these developments also will help to generate residential construction.
Back in 2000 she, along with her friend and now-co-producer Julia Allen, were creating a high school curriculum on the borough’s history. In the 1970s, fires raged through the South Bronx--meet the brave citizens who outlasted the flames and saved their community, in "Decade of Fire." In the 1970s, fires ravaged much of the Bronx: seven census tracts lost 97 percent of their buildings and Filmmaker and educator Vivian Vázquez, who grew up in the South Bronx in the ’70s, knew that the story needed to be retold.
How did this narrative become that the people in the Bronx wanted to destroy our new chance of success, our new chance of opportunity?” The film, told from Vázquez ’s perspective of growing up in the borough, digs into the discriminatory government policies that created conditions of neglect in the South Bronx, and eventually led landlords to abandon (and sometimes burn) their properties.
“What people learn on the outside is that the people in the Bronx burnt it; that it was us who destroyed our community,” she explains. “People continue to make progress, and people have often fought and made demands for the ones that came before and for the ones that are coming after.”The open-plan living area also includes an oversize kitchen island.That approach would prioritize ULURP projects in areas hardest hit by COVID-19.The state court system has paused evictions until at least August 5.The historic residence is one-third neo-Tudor, one-third Colonial Revival, and one-third Spanish mission.The south-facing living room comes with a gas fireplace.The city’s embattled 2018 rezoning of Inwood will now move forward. Under the regulations, Section 8 tenants who were burned out of their current housing were granted immediate priority status for another apartment, potentially in a better part of the city.
“They knew the city wasn’t gonna come to help them, that nobody was gonna come to help people, and so they had to figure it out and take responsibility,” Vázquez says.