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Showing 1 to 3 of 3 for “"Bedford-stuyvesant"”.
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The Politics of Community Development: A History of the Bedford-Stuyvesant Restoration Corporation
… explores the nearly fifty-year history of the Bedford-Stuyvesant Restoration Corporation (BSRC), the nation's first federally funded community development corporation (CDC). The BSRC's creation stemmed from the bottom-up initiatives of African American women in the Central Brooklyn Coordinating …
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The Forgotten Fight: Waging War on Poverty in New York City, 1945-1980
… unfolds in the Brooklyn neighborhood of Bedford-Stuyvesant, where the drive to end poverty dovetailed with a vibrant civil-rights movement. A majority-black area of roughly 400,000 people, Bed-Stuy housed a mix of desperately poor tenants and upwardly mobile homeowners. I emphasize the …
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Placemaking and Belonging in Brooklyn: Bushwick City Farms
… on Stockton Street, at the border of Bushwick/Bedford-Stuyvesant in Brooklyn. Its overcrowded, dusty, and scarce conditions have pushed the migrants living there to engage with the wider community. This paper explores the active involvement of the migrants living at Stockton Street in Bushwick …