Urban Blight, The Son Of Sam, And The Birth Of Hip Hop: 28 Photos Of The Bronx In The 1970s
While white flight reduced the Bronx’s population by 30 percent during the 1970s, much of the borough literally burned to the ground. Like this gallery?Share it : New Yorkers often ruminate on the 1970s as the bleakest , most crime - ride , and most uncertain time the city has ever face — with good reason . There was a whirlwind of tectonic economic , criminal , and cultural shift occurring at once that must have made the 1970s seem like the end times — specially in the Bronx ....