It Happened Here
Banana Kelly got its name from what?
Kelly Street is curved like a banana.
During the Decade of Fire, this % of Bronx housing was burnt down.
80%
This bank policy in the 1950s made it so that white neighborhoods could move up and out of the Bronx, while communities of color were economically stuck.
Redlining
"If I can't dance, I don't want to be in your revolution." What did 52 People for Progress do to save the Bronx?
Outside Culture Events
Park Concerts
The Kingsbridge Armory is so neglected that it will cost this much to rebuild...
$1 Billion
In the 1930s, this place was one of the most racially and ethnically integrated areas in the country...
The South Bronx
During this fiery decade, the South Bronx became infamous for arson, poverty, and government neglect — a crisis so severe it prompted the phrase, "The Bronx is burning."
1970s
This population shift - supported by redlining and urban renewal - happened so fast that within 10 years, the Bronx's racial demographics had completely flipped.
white flight
Peoples Development created community wealth by training young people from the neighborhood in this kind of job field...
Construction Trades
in 2009, Mayor Bloomberg tried to force the community to accept poverty wages and minimal community benefits in this plan for the Kingsbridge Armory
shopping mall
Bronx Terminal Market
Lincoln Center
Columbia University & NYU
Cross Bronx Expressway
As the Bronx burned in the 1970s, the city closed dozens of these, worsening response times and fueling community outrage.
fire departments
Slum Clearance
Removal of People of Color
This group pushed NYC government to invest $4.4 Billion into Affordable Housing in 1980s.
Northwest Bronx CCC
In 2012, this plan for the armory failed because it could not collect enough funds to start construction.
9 Ice Rinks
1973, during the Decade of Fire, DJ Kool Herc invented hip hop here...
in his building rec center on Sedgwick Ave
This is the word used to describe someone who burns a building on purpose...
Arson
This "Urban Renewal" project took 40 years to build and demolished over 60,000 homes... its goal was to make it easier for middle class and white families to move to the suburbs.
Cross Bronx Expressway
Hetty Fox started the type of organization where residents come together to run and manage their building, even if they don't own the building.
Tenant Association
Northwest Bronx has been fighting for control of the Kingsbridge Armory since which year?
1997 (1990s counts)
The famous statement, "The Bronx is Burning" was stated over radio broadcast at this place...
Yankee Stadium
The government gave out this much $ in insurance payouts to landlords who had their buildings burnt...
$45 million or $250 million today
Once a thriving, integrated and mixed income neighborhood, Redlining, Urban Renewal and White Flight together created this result in the Bronx.
Poverty
Abandoned Buildings / Neglect
Racial / Economic Segregation
Whose Bronx? Our Bronx! This kind of organizing is when people come together to take over and own a property, apartment or building as a collective (rather than an individual).
COMMUNITY OWNERSHIP
Similar to Banana Kelly and Peoples Development Corporation back in the 1970s, Northwest Bronx wants the community to have this in the Kingsbridge Armory development in 2025...
community ownership
affordable housing
wealth sharing