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Dec 23, 2019 · Aug. 10, 1977. Unfortunately, David Berkowitz's criminal career seemed to go back even further. When police searched his Yonkers apartment, they found hand-written notes of fires that he had apparently set throughout the Bronx in the early- to mid-1970s — as many as 1,400 by some estimates.
May 3, 2019 · A new film by Vivian Vázquez, who grew up in the South Bronx in the ’70s, explores the causes and consequences of the fires that ravaged the borough in the decade. It also shows how some residents organized and fought to reclaim their communities and homes.
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Aug 12, 2016 · “Originating in the South Bronx in the mid-’70s, rap music is a cultural anthropologist’s mother lode,” TIME would note in 1983. “It combines musical influences as disparate as disco ...
The South Bronx is an area of the New York City borough of the Bronx. The area comprises neighborhoods in the southern part of the Bronx, such as Concourse, Mott Haven, Melrose, and Port Morris. In the early 1900s, the South Bronx was originally known as the Manor of Morrisania, as it was the manor of Lewis Morris.
New York City firefighters battle a blaze in an abandoned tenement building in the South Bronx in 1977. ... seven census tracts in the Bronx lost more than 97 percent of their buildings to fire ...
Nov 5, 2019 · November 5, 2019. From Independent Lens, the film Decade of Fire covers a shocking but untold piece of American urban history, when the South Bronx was on fire in the 1970s. Left unprotected by ...
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Nov 4, 2019 · About the Documentary. Decade of Fire covers a shocking but untold piece of American urban history, when the South Bronx was on fire in the 1970s. Left unprotected by the city government, nearly a ...
