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The rise, fall and ongoing revival of the South Bronx.
Apr 4, 2023 · Thirty-five years after this landmark of urban history – originally titled We're Still Here in a 1986 first edition – Jill Jonnes continues to chronicle the rise, fall, rebirth, and ongoing revival of the South Bronx.
Dec 7, 2023 · There's been so much progress in the South Bronx, but new struggles complicate the revival. We'll take a long view of the South Bronx now with Jill Jonnes, author of South Bronx Rising: The Rise, Fall and Resurrection of an American City.
The book follows the borough’s development from colonial settlement in the 1600s, to urban subway boomtown, home to waves of upwardly mobile German, Irish, Italian, and Jewish immigrants, followed by new waves after WWII of aspiring emigrants from Puerto Rico and blacks displaced from Manhattan.
Nov 18, 2022 · Last month, Jonnes updated her much-heralded book, South Bronx Rising: The Rise, Fall, and Resurrection of an American City, which logs a continuous change in the landscape of the Bronx. Steeped in history, the book is a modern classic for Bronxites and has inspired students, historians, activists, and artists for decades.
Thirty-five years after this landmark of urban history first captured the rise, fall, and rebirth of a once-thriving New York City borough—ravaged in the 1970s ...
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Driven by an increase in the share of the population that was 65 and over, the median age of South Bronx residents increased by three years to 32.8 years between 2011 and 2021. This figure was lower than the median ages for the borough (34.8 years) and the City (37.8 years).
