| Book Review | The Journal of American History, 92.1

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Book Review

The Bronx. By Evelyn Gonzalez. (New York: Columbia University Press, 2004. xvi, 263 pp. $29.50, ISBN 0-231-12114-8.)

New York City's northernmost borough has many distinctive features that justify a book-length treatment. More than almost any other location in the United States, the Bronx has come to represent the ultimate in urban decadence. A combination of poverty, crime, and social disorder occurs in many cities across the country. But the Bronx added a new dimension when the police station in the worst crime area took on the name Fort Apache. Then, the unending apartment house fires became such a regular part of the landscape that the expression "the Bronx is burning" aptly described the reality. At its worst, sections of the borough experienced building abandonment on an unprecedented scale. A new reality in New York life appeared: endless blocks of property that no one wanted. A special term, disinvestment, was invented to describe it. Former residents of decayed or vanished urban communities who experienced a painful sense of loss have produced a spate of personal memoirs, perhaps more of them about life in the Bronx than in any other comparable urban area.

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