Manhattantown

Manhattantown

Manhattantown, now known as Park West Village or West Park Apartments, was a massive urban renewal project in the Bloomingdale District section of New York City west of Central Park. It was funded by Title I of the Housing Act of 1949, which financed slum clearance under urban redevelopment initiatives. Allegations of corruption were leveled soon after the project's inception in the Spring of 1949, culminating in hearings in the Senate's Banking and Currency Committee in 1954. These included the sale of $15,000,000 in real-estate to a political insider for $1,000,000 by the Mayor's slum clearance committee, headed by Robert Moses, and delays by the owners of the site in demolishing the slum, so that they could collect rents from slum dwellers.

References

"The Tragedy of Urban Renewal," Reason.tv, 2011.


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