Between Ocean and City - The Transformation of Rockaway, New York

Rockaway Beach was once a popular seaside resort in south Queens with a small permanent population. Shortly after World War II, large parts of this narrow peninsula between the ocean and the bay became some of New York City's worst slums. A historian who grew up in the community and his wife, a social worker, together present an illuminating account of this transformation, exploring issues of race, class, and social policy and offering a significant revision of the larger story of New York City's development. In particular, the authors qualify some of the negative assessments of Robert Moses, suggesting that the "Power Broker" attempted for many positive initiatives for Rockaway.
Based on extensive archival research and hundreds of hours of interviews with residents, urban specialists, and government officials past and present, Between Ocean and City is a clear-eyed and harrowing story of this largely African American community's struggles and resiliency in the face of grinding poverty, urban renewal schemes gone wrong, and a forced ghettoization by the sea.

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction
1. The Resort in Summer and Winter
2. Race and Real Estate
3. The Trestle Burns and the Projects Begin
4. Rockaway's Welfare
5. Robert Moses and the End of a Resort
6. Storms over Title I
7. Where They Live
8. Trends of the Sixties
9. The Whitest Neighborhood in New York
10. Divergences
11. The 310 Acres
12. The Reckoning

Über den Autor / die Autorin

Lawrence Kaplan and Carol P. Kaplan

Zusammenfassung

Rockaway Beach was once a popular seaside resort in southern Queens with a small permanent population. Shortly after World War II, large parts of this area became one of New York City's worst slums. This is an account of this transformation, exploring issues of race, class and social policy.

Produktdetails

• Autoren: Carol Kaplan, Carol P. Kaplan, Lawrence Kaplan, Lawrence Kaplan Kaplan, Kaplan Lawrence, J. R. S. Whiting
• Verlag: Columbia University Press
• Sprache: Englisch
• Produktform: Fester Einband
• Erschienen: 16.04.2003
• EAN: 9780231128483
• ISBN: 978-0-231-12848-3
• Seiten: 264
• Serien: Columbia History of Urban Life; Columbia History of Urban Life
• Themen: Geisteswissenschaften, Kunst, Musik > Geschichte > Kulturgeschichte; Sachbuch > Geschichte > Sonstiges; New York, HISTORY / Social History, Social & cultural history, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / Urban, Later 20th century c 1950 to c 1999, Social and cultural history, Urban communities, c 1945 to c 2000 (Post-war period), New York (state)