After all these years
Edited: 9/22/08
Yesterday, the NYT City Room reported on Lisa Kahane’s “Do Not Give Way to Evil.” The book includes photographs taken from 1979 -as the Bronx fires ended- to 1987, as the community began to recover. Check out the slideshow of some of her photos.
One of Kahane's photos
Although the Bronx stopped burning years ago, the community didn’t magically recover overnight. A 2005 NBC report explains how the South Bronx continues to “rise out of the ashes.”
I’m curious if/how my own Bronx beat (CD 6) is really still dealing with any destruction and rebuilding directly related to the fires, after all these years…or is the burning Bronx an old stereotype that just won’t die? Has anyone else with CDs in the area explored this at all?
More photos (by Mel Rosenthal) of the South Bronx in 1975.
