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Depression and New Deal Professor Kenneth T. Jackson
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The Depression The Great Depression World War II The Post War Boomlet, 1945-1960 Suburban Exodus and White Flight, 1950-2000
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The Great Depression in NYC Wall Street Crash of October, 1929 Rockefeller Center and the Empire State Bldg Unemployment and Homeless Encampments The Little Flower - Fiorello LaGuardia Indoor Markets, Censorship, and Trolley Tracks Bridges, Parks, and Highways Redlining by HOLC and FHA The World's Fair of 1939-1940
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Model T
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LaGuardia & friends challenge Prohibition
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NY Police Commissioner Louis Valentine watches Mayor LaGuardia smash slot machines
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Rockefeller Center Under Construction
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Rockefeller Center 1937
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Chrysler Building
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Manhattan Skyline 1937
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Breadline in Bryant Park
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Shacks of the unemployed, NY, 1932, below Riverside Drive
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“Hooverville” in Central Park
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Potato vendor, NYC streets
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5,000 apple sellers on NYC streets
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Shantytown, West Houston Street
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Roseland
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1930s dance marathon
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Bronx Terminal Market, 1935
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George Washington Bridge
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Queens Blvd., 1935
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Building at First Ave. and 102 nd St.,demolished for East River houses, first public housing in E. Harlem
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First public houses of NYC Housing Authority, 1935
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Harlem River Houses
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Removing 8 th Ave. tracks, c. 1936
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Red Hook Houses
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Ft. Greene houses, 1944
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U.N.
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Robert Moses and the Rise of New York Accomplishments: builds more in his career than any other person in American history Develops vision of NYC as a world capital Creates massive infrastructure for NYC including bridges, tunnels, roads, beaches, parks Caro's Charges Against Moses: racism, destroys neighborhoods; ruins public transportation Built Cheap Public Housing
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Robert Moses
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Accomplishments - Roads Interborough Parkway Cross Bronx Expressway West Side Highway Cross Island Parkway Hutchinson River Parkway Van Wyck Expressway FDR Drive Major Deegan Expressway Clearview Expressway Harlem River Drive Gowanus Expressway Bruckner Expressway
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Accomplishments – Roads (cont’d) Henry Hudson Parkway Bronx River Parkway Grand Central Parkway Belt Parkway Prospect Expressway BQE New England Thruway Wantagh State Parkway Meadowbrook Parkway Long Island Expressway Southern State Parkway Northern State Parkway Seaford-Oyster Bay Exp.
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Cross Bronx Expressway
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Bridges
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Accomplishments – Bridges and Tunnels Henry Hudson Bridge Marine Parkway Bridge Triborough Bridge (RFK) Cross Bay Bridge Whitestone Bridge Queens Midtown Tunnel Brooklyn Battery Tunnel Throgs Neck Bridge Verrazano Narrows Bridge Robert Moses Causeway
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Accomplishments - Miscellaneous United Nations Lincoln Center World's Fair of 1939, World's Fair of 1964 Shea Stadium Stuyvesant Town, Peter Cooper Village, Rochdale Village Cadman Plaza Co-op City Title I Projects around the city including Morningside Gardens, and much of the public housing in the city.
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Accomplishments – Beaches & Parks Jones Beach Orchard Beach Dyker Beach Jacob Riis Park Astoria Park Gilgo Beach Robert Moses Park Rebuilding and Reconstructing Central Park Thirteen Swimming Pools in 1930s Hundreds of Small Parks
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Robert Moses State Park
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Astoria Pool, Queens
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NYC in World War II The Brooklyn Navy Yard and Industrial Output Convoys and the Merchant Marine Blackouts, Rations, and Rent Control The Endicott, Roseland, and the Sand Street The Manhattan Project Floyd Bennett Field, Fort Hamilton, Air Defence Coming Home
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Brooklyn Army Terminal
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VE Day Times Square
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Troops come home
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