How the South Bronx’s Ruins Became Fertile Ground

Much of the credit for a resurgence of the South Bronx and many other neighborhoods around New York should go to a multitude of community groups, many of which scratched and clawed to save their neighborhoods in the 1970s, and grew into remarkably sophisticated operations, capable of leveraging hundreds of millions of dollars in bank investment, says New York Times Columnist Michael Powell.   He cites such groups as the Northwest Bronx Community and Clergy Coalition, the Mid-Bronx Desperadoes, UHAB (the Urban Homesteading Assistance Board), Los Sures, St. Nick’s Alliance and Bridge Street Development.

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