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I just watched Donnie Brasco
I just watched Donnie Brasco
Not mafia, BigMoaner, but have you seen 80 Blocks From Tiffany's?
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80 Blocks From Tiffany's - 70s NYC gang doc
Read this article in the Guardian Guide on Saturday and watched the film here last night. A real snapshot of how utterly fucked large swathes of NY were in the 70s; block after block of vacant, burned out buildings. Also weird watching a doc where there's no narrative added on by the film...www.urban75.net
Film:
The frequency and scale of the spectacular fires that consumed much of the South Bronx and other areas of New York City throughout the 1970s can in large part be blamed on the recommendations for fire service reduction made by the New York City-RAND Institute and HUD between 1969 and 1976. In 1973, urban epidemiologists Deborah Wallace and Rodrick Wallace got access to Rand's fire service reports. Immediately recognizing the flimsy pseudoscience that undergirded their claims, they began to write and campaign against the station closures and the other policies based on Rand recommendations.
"By 1978," the Wallaces write in their introduction to A Plague on Your Houses: How New York Was Burned Down and National Public Health Crumbled (published by Verso in 1998), "we discovered that the Rand-recommended fire service cuts had triggered an epidemic of building fires and heated up a related epidemic of building abandonment. We submitted a grant proposal to the National Institutes of Health (NIH) to assess public health outcomes of this massive destruction of housing in New York's poor neighborhoods. The NIH did not even review our proposal. That research plan, carried out over a period of fifteen years without federal funding, resulted in this book."
In the excerpt below, Wallace and Wallace situate the development of Rand's recommendations in the context of the deliberate de-industrialization of New York undertaken by federal and state officials.
See also CIA/Contras/crack in the '80s.Benign Neglect and Planned Shrinkage
Verso Blog 25 March 2017
Good shout:looks like a good companion to Rubble Kings. Never ceases to astonish me how fucked they let it get. Because its a union town, because they were black areas. They'd rather let the city rot than let the people in in it live their lives.
i bought a book when i was in junior school about famous criminals and was obsessed with lucky luciano, lepke buchalter, meyer lansky and dillinger. it had illustrations of fellers in fedoras and trenchcoats firing tommy guns. been with me ever since.I have a broad range of cultural tastes, from dubstep to Zen buddhism to heidegger to poetry.
also got a massive unrelenting obsession with the american mafia not sure what the fuck is wrong with me.
totally obsessed with the Deep Cover podcast where they interview donnie brasco about his six years. spellbinding.
it's the audacity of it all.
La Cosa Nostra? As in, Sicilian mafia rather than Calabrian 'Ndrangheta, Neapolitan Camorra etc.Sorry, what does LCN stand for?
Molto grazie!La Cosa Nostra? As in, Sicilian mafia rather than Calabrian 'Ndrangheta, Neapolitan Camorra etc.
CAKES GOT ICED"It was La Crossing Nostra"
(Idris2002)
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“He spent his life looking over his shoulder but he forgot to look both ways before crossing the street,” one police source said."It was La Crossing Nostra"
(Idris2002)
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not just the 80sthe guy above...got sent away for 9years in teh 80s for a 200 odd million drug sting!