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The Bronx: Fires, hip hop and gentrification

The Bronx: Fires, hip hop and gentrification

World in Progress

November 1, 202329m 59s

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Show Notes

It's a vibrant area with a bad reputation: some 1.5 million people, many of them immigrants, live in the Bronx, a borough in New York City. For decades, poverty and crime made headlines here, but it's also the birthplace of hip hop culture and home to the famous Yankees baseball team. The locals say things have improved a lot since the notorious fires of the 1970s, yet there are still many issues.

Topics

World in ProgressBronxgentrificationpovertyimmigrationculturehip hop