Parkchester: A Bronx Tale of Race and Ethnicity

by Jeffrey S. Gurock

Book Overview

The eight-decade story of a New York neighborhood

In 1940, the Metropolitan Life Insurance Company opened a planned community in the East Bronx, New York. A model of what the neighborhood would become was first displayed to an excited public at the 1939 World's Fair. Parkchester was celebrated as a "city within a city," offering many of the attractions and comforts of suburbia, but without the transportation issues that plagued commuters...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1479896705
• ISBN13: 9781479896707
• Release Date: October 2019
• Publisher: Washington Mews Books/Nyu Press
• Length: 304 Pages
• Weight: 0.15 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.3" x 6.1" x 9.1"