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The Cross Bronx, the road that cut a borough in half
1963
The Bronx, New York
Famartin · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Wikimedia Commons
Robert Moses drove seven miles of trench through dense neighbourhoods, displacing some 60,000 people rather than shift the route two blocks. The South Bronx's collapse and its fires followed within a decade, and so, out of that, did hip hop.
That was 1 of the hidden places.
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