Crossing Broadway: Washington Heights and the Promise of New York City

by Robert W. Snyder

Book Overview

Robert W. Snyder's Crossing Broadway tells how disparate groups overcame their mutual suspicions to rehabilitate housing, build new schools, restore parks, and work with the police to bring safety to streets racked by crime and fear. It shows how a neighborhood once nicknamed "Frankfurt on the Hudson" for its large population of German Jews became "Quisqueya Heights"--the home of the nation's largest Dominican community.

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• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0801449618
• ISBN13: 9780801449611
• Release Date: December 2014
• Publisher: Three Hills
• Length: 312 Pages
• Weight: 1.35 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.4" x 9.7"
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher