Written as Jane Jacobs was writing The Death and Life of Great American Cities, this Newsweek article described racial tensions among Harlem's various ethnic groups easily touched off into confrontation and riot (African-Americans from the US South and Puerto Ricans were moving into the neighbourhood by the tens of thousands annually) narcotics addiction, trafficking and violence which had spilled over into city high schools ‘costly barracks’ such as Fort Greene Houses that were creating ‘new slums’ and the flight of middle-class New Yorkers to the suburbs.Ģ.
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