Paradise Bronx: The Life and Times of New York’s Greatest Borough
Frazier walked the borough end to end over several years, taking in the Grand Concourse, the burning of the seventies, hip hop, and the expressway that split it.
The Grand Concourse, the burning of the seventies, the birth of hip hop, and an expressway that cut the place in half: Frazier covers all of it on foot, over several years of walking. He is strongest on the twentieth century, and leaves open the cost-benefit case for the road that did the damage.
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Tyler Cowen
An excellent, fun, and much-needed book. I liked the parts about the 20th century best. I am still longing for that cost-benefit analysis of the Cross-Bronx Expressway, though.
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