Neighbourhood Preservation or You Can Fight City Hall: A Study of the West Village Committee, New York City, 1961 – 1965, With Special Emphasis on the Committee’s Fight Against Bulldozing
Abstract
Walk down any street. However prosaic the immediate surroundings, the Manhattan skyline, itself, tells you: this place is unique. You cannot possibly be anywhere else in the world at this particular pinpoint in time.The "Other" Boroughs. While there are, of course, always exceptions in each instance, the same cannot be said for the rest of New York City. The Bronx seems to have given way to slums and housing projects of the low and middle-income variety. Queens appears to be mostly a conglomeration of high-rise, middle-class "human filing cabinets" and single-family development housing. Staten Island, especially at the Northern tip, is depressingly working-class. It is not until one travels well into the deeper reaches of this sixteen-mile-long island that one finds a touch of the throughly rural in, say, Lighthouse Hill and Richmondtown, (in the latter instance, one is almost shocked to find that a village so reminiscent of New England can still be part of a great city.) With the possible exception of the Heights, vast stretches of Brooklyn bear a discouraging resemblance to Baltimore at its worst: treeless, hot, barren—with a soul-searing monotony that seems to stretch on endlessly.
Subject Area
Social research|Social work
Recommended Citation
Sargent, Helga Claire, "Neighbourhood Preservation or You Can Fight City Hall: A Study of the West Village Committee, New York City, 1961 – 1965, With Special Emphasis on the Committee’s Fight Against Bulldozing" (1966). ETD Collection for Fordham University. AAI31097138.
https://research.library.fordham.edu/dissertations/AAI31097138
