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Depression and New Deal

Professor Kenneth T. Jackson. Depression and New Deal. The Depression. The Great Depression World War II The Post War Boomlet, 1945-1960 Suburban Exodus and White Flight, 1950-2000. The Great Depression in NYC. Wall Street Crash of October, 1929

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Depression and New Deal

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  1. Professor Kenneth T. Jackson Depression and New Deal

  2. The Depression • The Great Depression • World War II • The Post War Boomlet, 1945-1960 • Suburban Exodus and White Flight, 1950-2000

  3. 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

  4. Model T

  5. LaGuardia & friends challenge Prohibition

  6. NY Police Commissioner Louis Valentine watches Mayor LaGuardia smash slot machines

  7. Rockefeller Center Under Construction

  8. Rockefeller Center 1937

  9. Chrysler Building

  10. Chrysler Building

  11. Manhattan Skyline 1937

  12. Breadline in Bryant Park

  13. Shacks of the unemployed, NY, 1932, below Riverside Drive

  14. “Hooverville” in Central Park

  15. Potato vendor, NYC streets

  16. 5,000 apple sellers on NYC streets

  17. Shantytown, West Houston Street

  18. Roseland

  19. 1930s dance marathon

  20. Bronx Terminal Market, 1935

  21. George Washington Bridge

  22. Queens Blvd., 1935

  23. Building at First Ave. and 102nd St.,demolished for East River houses, first public housing in E. Harlem

  24. First public houses of NYC Housing Authority, 1935

  25. Harlem River Houses

  26. Removing 8th Ave. tracks, c. 1936

  27. Red Hook Houses

  28. Ft. Greene houses, 1944

  29. U.N.

  30. 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

  31. Robert Moses

  32. 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

  33. 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.

  34. Cross Bronx Expressway

  35. Bridges

  36. 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

  37. 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.

  38. 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

  39. Robert Moses State Park

  40. Astoria Pool, Queens

  41. 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

  42. Brooklyn Army Terminal

  43. VE Day Times Square

  44. Troops come home

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