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Marc Kagan's avatar

Re: Just City. My father was chair of community board seven (upper west side) in the late 1960s and early 70s. I was really too young to understand much of the politics, but I recall there were big fights about allowing any lower income apartments in those big projects going up on Columbus and Amsterdam avenues. Opponents claimed they were afraid the neighborhood would “tip.“ Of course, now this all seems absurd.

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Sachi Takahashi-Rial's avatar

Thanks for the recs! Just City sounds great. Particularly compelling:

"Baum was free to roam the city, strike up friendships, attend concerts, fall into and out of trouble, and grow up into a fully-functioning adult without neurotic and overbearing supervision. Children then were not infantilized. In a far more sanitized, safer New York, parents seem more terrified than ever."

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