Depression and New Deal
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Depression and New Deal
Professor Kenneth T. Jackson
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• 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
Model T
LaGuardia & friends challenge Prohibition
NY Police Commissioner Louis Valentine watches Mayor LaGuardia
smash slot machines
Rockefeller Center Under Construction
Rockefeller Center 1937
Chrysler Building
Chrysler Building
Manhattan Skyline 1937
Breadline in Bryant Park
Shacks of the unemployed, NY, 1932, below Riverside Drive
“Hooverville” in Central Park
Potato vendor, NYC streets
5,000 apple sellers on NYC streets
Shantytown, West Houston Street
Roseland
1930s dance marathon
Bronx Terminal Market, 1935
George Washington
Bridge
Queens Blvd., 1935
Building at First Ave. and 102nd St.,demolished for East River houses, first public housing in E. Harlem
First public houses of NYC Housing Authority, 1935
Harlem River Houses
Removing 8th Ave. tracks, c. 1936
Red Hook Houses
Ft. Greene houses, 1944
U.N.
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
Robert Moses
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
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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.
Cross Bronx Expressway
Bridges
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
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.
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
Robert Moses State Park
Astoria Pool, Queens
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
Brooklyn Army Terminal
VE Day Times Square
Troops come home