US History 1973 - 2014 Commonplace Book: Lecture 8, Society and Culture in the 1970s

The South Bronx is a necropolis—a city of death. There's a total breakdown of services, looting is rampant, fires are everywhere.

—Head of Neighborhood Health Clinic, quoted in The New York Times, 1973

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