Cityscape: The Bronx Remembered




WFUV's Cityscape show

Summary: <p style="border: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 15px; padding: 0px; font-size: 16px; color: #333333; font-family: 'pt sans', helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 22.3999996185303px;"><span style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">The Bronx has been experiencing a development boom in recent years with a number of projects sprouting up across the borough, from new hotels to shopping malls. But, it was only a few decades ago when arson fires, rampant crime and poverty made the borough a national symbol of urban decay.</span></p><p style="border: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 15px; padding: 0px; font-size: 16px; color: #333333; font-family: 'pt sans', helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 22.3999996185303px;"><span style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">On this week's Cityscape, we’re revisiting the Bronx in different eras.  We'll talk with author Avery Corman about his new memoir </span><em style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">My Old Neighborhood Remembered, </em><span style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">as well with Photographer Stephen Shames about his new book, </span><em style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">Bronx Boys</em><span style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">.  </span></p>