Fires That Displaced People In New York City Essay
TASK 2Create a powerpoint presentation, a prezi, a music video, a slide show, or a written essay with pictures that shows and explains the reasons for the fires that displaced people during the 1970’s in New York City and the effect these fires had on people and the neighborhoods.
In this task the readings include:
1. An introduction
2. A reflection about the South Bronx written by a writer for
The Post
3. An interview with a journalist who covered the fires in
Bushwick
4. An oral history from someone who experienced the fires at the time
You need to take notes in your notebook. You can pick which information that you think is important for your presentation. You cannot start working on your presentation until you have completed all of the readings …show more content…
One of the fires in Bushwick killed an entire family of ten. So many people got burned and some died. I don’t know the exact number. I do know that because the buildings were attached (connected) if a fire was set in one building, it would burn the buildings attached, even if those buildings were not owned by the landlord who hired the arsonist.
Bushwick wasn’t a well known neighborhood those days. It was left to fall apart without attention. The city was broke in those days, there were empty lots all filled with burned out mattresses, burned household appliances and other garbage dumped in them.
The firemen never stopped working, they were constantly on call. A lot of the neighborhood was literally burned down, pulled apart and taken away.
It was a depressing place to be. People who lived or worked in the neighborhood told me that they constantly smelled like smoke. The smell was in their hair, in their clothes and worst of all in their lungs. This was especially hard on kids with asthma.
Overall, I can say that as a reporter at the time, the city and the greed of the landlords destroyed several neighborhoods all over the city. This
In this task the readings include:
1. An introduction
2. A reflection about the South Bronx written by a writer for
The Post
3. An interview with a journalist who covered the fires in
Bushwick
4. An oral history from someone who experienced the fires at the time
You need to take notes in your notebook. You can pick which information that you think is important for your presentation. You cannot start working on your presentation until you have completed all of the readings …show more content…
One of the fires in Bushwick killed an entire family of ten. So many people got burned and some died. I don’t know the exact number. I do know that because the buildings were attached (connected) if a fire was set in one building, it would burn the buildings attached, even if those buildings were not owned by the landlord who hired the arsonist.
Bushwick wasn’t a well known neighborhood those days. It was left to fall apart without attention. The city was broke in those days, there were empty lots all filled with burned out mattresses, burned household appliances and other garbage dumped in them.
The firemen never stopped working, they were constantly on call. A lot of the neighborhood was literally burned down, pulled apart and taken away.
It was a depressing place to be. People who lived or worked in the neighborhood told me that they constantly smelled like smoke. The smell was in their hair, in their clothes and worst of all in their lungs. This was especially hard on kids with asthma.
Overall, I can say that as a reporter at the time, the city and the greed of the landlords destroyed several neighborhoods all over the city. This