Housing ethnic and racial minorities in new york city: Jews and blacks in brownsville

Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies

Volumn 14, Issue 3, 1988, Pages 347-355

  Zukin, Sharon ^a   Zwerman, Gilda ^a  

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EID: 84959968658     PISSN: 1369183X     EISSN: 14699451     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/1369183X.1988.9976073     Document Type: Article

References (10)

1. Alter F. Landesman, Brownsville: The Birth, Development and Passing of a Jewish Community in New York, 2nd ed. (Block, New York, 1971); Eleanora W. Schoenebaum, ‘Emerging Neighborhoods: The Development of Brooklyn's Fringe Areas, 1850-1930′, PhD dissertation, Columbia University, 1976.
2. Schoenebaum, op. cit., p. 153.
3. ‘Brownsville Housing, Civic Gains Mentioned in Postwar Plans’, Brooklyn Eagle, 9 February, 1945. See also the pamphlet ‘Brownsville Must Have Public Housing’ by Milton J. Goell, Brooklyn Committee for Better Housing and Brownsville Neighbourhood Council, 1940.
4. Brooklyn Eagle, 7 April, 1948; 28 April, 1953; 6 April, 1954.
5. US Census, 1950.
6. New York City Housing Authority, tenancy date for public housing projects, 1948; cf. US Census, 1950, 1960.
7. For a lengthy and scathing denunciation of the city government's commitment to housing in Brownsville in this period, see New York City Housing and Development Administration Study Group, Temporary State Commission to Make a Study of the Governmental Operation of the City of New York, Urban Renewal in Brownsville (1960-1973), New York City, 1973.
8. See various issues of People's Voice, 1970-1980.
9. See Wayne Barrett, ‘Brownsville's Mobile Homes: “Sinking Money into Rubble”, Village Voice, 9 September, 1971.
10. Information on Nehemiah Plan from interviews conducted during 1984 with I.D. Robbins (project manager), Michael Gecan and Fr. John Powis (East Brooklyn Churches), Rep. Major Owens, families of residents, and Jeannette Gadson (district manager, Community Board 16); ‘The Nehemiah Plan, East Brooklyn, N.Y.’, Hearing before the Subcommittee on Housing and Community Development, Committee on Banking, Finance and Urban Affairs, House of Representatives, 98th Congress, 2nd session, 30 April, 1984; I.S. Robbins, ‘New Housing for the Under $40, 000 Income Urban Family’, Community Investing/Consumer News, New York State Banking Department, 1 (Fall 1983): 5-8;’ East Brooklyn's Nehemiah Opens its Doors and Answers its Critics’, City Limits (June-July 1984): 14-15; ‘A Neighborhood Grows in Brooklyn Ghost Town’, City Sun, 24-30 October, 1984.