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*This is a free Adult School class. Click on the ticketing link to register.
In the 1950s, New York City leaders decided to demolish the San Juan Hill neighborhood – a lively mixed-race community that had long been considered a “slum”—in order to make way for the construction of the Lincoln Center complex. Of the 7,000 households displaced by the development, about 20% were Puerto Rican. .
This talk will provide political and social context for this important moment in New York’s redevelopment in the mid-20th century, and will also highlight the ways Puerto Rican New Yorkers responded to the failures of city leaders to provide equitable support to the struggling migrant community.
