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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...scattering housing for the poor throughout the city, rather than erecting still more public housing in ghetto areas. If any neighborhood should accept that idea, it seemed, it would be Forest Hills, which had voted for Lindsay in his two successful mayoralty elections. Yet as soon as the site was announced in 1966, neighborhood opposition began. Residents organized an association to block the project and won temporary delays in court. The Queens Jewish Community Council, representing 53 smaller groups, joined in fighting the project...
...Lindsay refused to retreat from the plan, which was to build 840 units, including three 24-story apartment buildings, on an 8.5-acre site at a cost of about $30 million. The site is a vacant tract near the busy Long Island Expressway. Officials said that some 40% of the new units were to be reserved for the elderly, al though neighbors were not convinced that this promise would be kept. They also feared that they would be inundated by ghetto blacks. Actually, considerable integration seemed likely; nearly half of the original applicants for apartments were from Forest Hills itself...
They marched in a torchlight procession to the construction site, smashed the windows of construction trailers with rocks, blocked traffic on the expressway and threatened to set fire to construction facilities. Shouted one demonstrator: "If this was Harlem, these trailers would have been burned long ago!" Police called for help as the mob threatened to get out of control, and some 20 officers restored order...
Burback said he was pleased with the design of the addition. "The use of pre-molded concrete instead of steel has cut our on-site labor costs and our time of completion by about two months," he said...
Those Who Vanished. Closer to the historical era, comparisons can be made between early Americans and their Old World contemporaries. Ceram tells of the work of Emil Walter Haury, a young field archaeologist in the 1930s who explored a site at Snaketown, Ariz. The Pima Indians said that it once belonged to the "Hohokam" ("those who have vanished"). Haury confirmed that the artistic Hohokam seem to have invented etching around A.D. 1000, hundreds of years before it appeared in Europe. Instead of using metal, they worked with seashells. They cremated their dead, methodically smashing whatever artifacts they had possessed...