Word: subways
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Luna Park, once a rhinestone star in the Coney Island constellation, was never rebuilt after a fire in 1944; a housing project went up instead. The other big Coney amusement center, Steeplechase, also closed last year. Coney Island, where the summer visitors used to be packed like subway straphangers, is so worried about falling attendance that it has shelled out $150,000 to restore the old allure. Where Murder Inc. once made lethal lead pay big dividends, the two-bit Gallo and Profaci mobs cannot even afford to fix the cops. Tough Tony Anastasio, the stevedore Caesar who ruled...
...train, the subway, the telephone, the telegraph, and eventually the automobile, foreshortened distances; the countryside beckoned, and people sick of inner-city congestion rushed in hordes to the cool green plots of suburbia...
...billion, six-year pilot project aimed at encouraging broad, unified plans that will prod suburban and inner-city governments into the cooperative ventures that they have so assiduously avoided in the past. Though its initial appropriation of $12 million is scarcely enough to buy 1½ miles of Manhattan subway, the program at last-and at least-recognizes that the metropolitan crisis demands a coordinated, scientific approach to quicken civic consciences and radically improve the total context of city living...
...further its policy of "open enrollment," the School Committee also offered to provide free subway tokens for elementary school pupils who want to attend a school more than a mile and a half from their homes. Such unsupervised transportation of young children is not likely to attract many Negro parents...
...compliance seems the best hope for the generation of Negroes Boston is now miseducating. Clearly, compensatory programs and subway tokens won't be enough...