Stories From People Who Stayed And Fought For The Bronx During the Turbulent 1970s and 80s

Emita Brady Hill and Susan Boyd discusses the elected officials, religious leaders, and activists who played a positive role in a pivotal time in the Bronx. In Bronx Faces & Voices: Sixteen Stories of Courage and Community, sixteen men and women tell their personal stories of the New York City borough, before, after and during the troubled years of arson, crime and abandonment and flight in the 1970s and 1980s. 

Mother and Child, Patients at Lincoln Hospital, 1980

(Walter Rosenblum)

We Need Jobs, Street Scene, 1980

(Walter Rosenblum)

Choir, Rapture Preparation Church, 1983

(Georgeen Comerford)

Schoolboys with Yarmulkes, 1983

(Georgeen Comerford)

Boy on Wall with Popeye Graffiti, 1980

(Walter Rosenblum)