depression and new deal professor kenneth t. jackson
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Depression and New Deal
Professor Kenneth T. Jackson
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The Depression
• The Great Depression• World War II• The Post War Boomlet, 1945-1960• Suburban Exodus and White Flight,
1950-2000
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The Great Depression in NYC
• Wall Street Crash of October, 1929• Rockefeller Center and the Empire State Bldg• Unemployment and Homeless Encampments• The Little Flower - Fiorello LaGuardia• Indoor Markets, Censorship, and Trolley Tracks• Bridges, Parks, and Highways• Redlining by HOLC and FHA• The World's Fair of 1939-1940
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Model T
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LaGuardia & friends challenge Prohibition
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NY Police Commissioner Louis Valentine watches Mayor LaGuardia
smash slot machines
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Rockefeller Center Under Construction
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Rockefeller Center 1937
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Chrysler Building
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Chrysler Building
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Manhattan Skyline 1937
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Breadline in Bryant Park
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Shacks of the unemployed, NY, 1932, below Riverside Drive
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“Hooverville” in Central Park
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Potato vendor, NYC streets
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5,000 apple sellers on NYC streets
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Shantytown, West Houston Street
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Roseland
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1930s dance marathon
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Bronx Terminal Market, 1935
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George Washington
Bridge
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Queens Blvd., 1935
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Building at First Ave. and 102nd St.,demolished for East River houses, first public housing in E. Harlem
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First public houses of NYC Housing Authority, 1935
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Harlem River Houses
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Removing 8th Ave. tracks, c. 1936
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Red Hook Houses
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Ft. Greene houses, 1944
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U.N.
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Robert Moses and the Riseof New York
• Accomplishments: builds more in his career than any other person in American history
• Develops vision of NYC as a world capital• Creates massive infrastructure for NYC
including bridges, tunnels, roads, beaches, parks
• Caro's Charges Against Moses: racism, destroys neighborhoods; ruins public transportation
• Built Cheap Public Housing
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Robert Moses
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Accomplishments - Roads• Interborough Parkway
• Cross Bronx Expressway
• West Side Highway
• Cross Island Parkway
• Hutchinson River Parkway
• Van Wyck Expressway
• FDR Drive
• Major Deegan Expressway
• Clearview Expressway
• Harlem River Drive
• Gowanus Expressway
• Bruckner Expressway
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Accomplishments – Roads (cont’d)• Henry Hudson Parkway
• Bronx River Parkway
• Grand Central Parkway
• Belt Parkway
• Prospect Expressway
• BQE
• New England Thruway
• Wantagh State Parkway
• Meadowbrook Parkway
• Long Island Expressway
• Southern State Parkway
• Northern State Parkway
• Seaford-Oyster Bay Exp.
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Cross Bronx Expressway
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Bridges
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Accomplishments – Bridges and Tunnels
• Henry Hudson Bridge• Marine Parkway Bridge• Triborough Bridge (RFK)• Cross Bay Bridge• Whitestone Bridge• Queens Midtown Tunnel• Brooklyn Battery Tunnel• Throgs Neck Bridge• Verrazano Narrows Bridge• Robert Moses Causeway
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Accomplishments - Miscellaneous
• United Nations• Lincoln Center• World's Fair of 1939, World's Fair of 1964• Shea Stadium• Stuyvesant Town, Peter Cooper Village,
Rochdale Village• Cadman Plaza• Co-op City• Title I Projects around the city including
Morningside Gardens, and much of the public housing in the city.
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Accomplishments – Beaches & Parks
• Jones Beach• Orchard Beach • Dyker Beach • Jacob Riis Park • Astoria Park• Gilgo Beach • Robert Moses Park• Rebuilding and Reconstructing Central Park• Thirteen Swimming Pools in 1930s• Hundreds of Small Parks
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Robert Moses State Park
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Astoria Pool, Queens
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NYC in World War II• The Brooklyn Navy Yard and Industrial
Output• Convoys and the Merchant Marine• Blackouts, Rations, and Rent Control• The Endicott, Roseland, and the Sand
Street • The Manhattan Project• Floyd Bennett Field, Fort Hamilton, Air
Defence• Coming Home
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Brooklyn Army Terminal
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VE Day Times Square
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Troops come home