Parkchester

A Bronx Tale of Race and Ethnicity

af Jeffrey S. Gurock

The eight-decade story of a New York neighborhood In 1940, the Metropolitan Life Insurance Company opened a planned community in the East Bronx, New York. A model of what the neighborhood would become was first displayed to an excited public at the 1939 World¿s Fair. Parkchester was celebrated as a ¿city within a city,¿ offering many of the attractions and comforts of suburbia, but without the transportation issues that plagued commuters who trekked into New York City every day. This new neighbo... (Læs mere)