| Description |
viii, 199 pages ; 24 cm |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 167-187) and index. |
| Contents |
The old Brooklyn, part one -- The old Brooklyn, part two -- Park Slope : the new Brooklyn takes shape -- Haute hippie Williamsburg -- The Brooklyn Navy Yard : new Brooklyn's new manufacturing -- Bedford-Stuyvesant : a ghetto in transition-- or is gentrification racist? -- Brownsville : the permanent ghetto -- Sunset Park : Chinese immigrants in blue sky Brooklyn -- Canarsie : West Indians in the promised borough -- Recovering cities. |
| Summary |
"Only a few decades ago, the Brooklyn stereotype well known to Americans was typified by television programs such as "The Honeymooners" and "Welcome Back, Kotter"--Comedies about working-class sensibilities, deprivation, and struggles. Today, the borough across the East River from Manhattan is home to trendsetters, celebrities, and enough "1 percenters" to draw the Occupy Wall Street protests across the Brooklyn Bridge. "Tres Brooklyn," has become a compliment among gourmands in Parisian restaurants. In The New Brooklyn, Kay Hymowitz chronicles the policies and events that transformed the borough so dramatically in such a short period of time and considers whether the borough's new wealth will lift up some of the borough's most blighted neighborhoods. Her portrait of the dramatic transformation of one urban center offers prescriptions that any city can employ and will be required reading for everyone interested in the rebirth of America's cities."--Publisher's description. |
| Subject |
Brooklyn (New York, N.Y.) -- History.
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Brooklyn (New York, N.Y.) -- Social conditions.
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Brooklyn (New York, N.Y.) -- Economic conditions.
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Community development -- New York (State) -- New York.
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Urban policy -- New York (State) -- New York.
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Urban renewal -- New York (State) -- New York.
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POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Public Policy -- City Planning & Urban Development.
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Community development. (OCoLC)fst00870818
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Economic history. (OCoLC)fst00901974
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Social conditions. (OCoLC)fst01919811
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Urban policy. (OCoLC)fst01162489
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Urban renewal. (OCoLC)fst01162536
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New York (State) -- New York.
(OCoLC)fst01204333
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New York (State) -- New York -- Brooklyn.
(OCoLC)fst01312516
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Gemeinwesenarbeit (DE-588)4020040-1
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Kommunalpolitik (DE-588)4073648-9
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Stadtsanierung (DE-588)4056769-2
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| Genre/Form |
History.
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History. (OCoLC)fst01411628
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| Other Form: |
Online version: Hymowitz, Kay S., 1948- New Brooklyn. Lanham : Rowman & Littlefield, [2017] 9781442266582 (DLC) 2016045386 |
| ISBN |
9781442266575 (hardcover) |
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1442266570 (hardcover) |
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9781442266582 (ebook) |
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9781538116111 (paperback) |
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1538116111 (paperback) |
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