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#23 Whose America?, pt. 2: Inner City Blues

The Martyr Made Podcast

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The Devastation of East New York

Of 41 synagogues in East New York in 1959 only four remained in 1970. In 1966 there were seven crimes reported for every 100 residents. A local bakery possibly the last Jewish bakery was robbed and broken into six times in a two month period. Professional strippers often brazenly drive up in trucks in broad daylight and remove copper, brass, and lead plumbing to sell to scrap metal dealers. One out of every seven youths in the neighborhood between the ages of seven and 20 was arrested during 1965.

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