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Publisher
WoodstockArts
Pub. Date
2016
Language
English
Description
In the 1960s, federally funded urban renewal projects destroyed hundreds of working-class urban communities across America. Lost Rondout: A Story of Urban Removal chronicles how one such project impacted the Hudson Valley city of Kingston, New York, demolishing nearly 500 buildings and displacing thousands of people. Interviews with former residents bring the destroyed neighborhood back to life -- its bars, clothing stores, and bakeries -- and dozens...