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Date Posted: Monday, April21, 07:06:am
Author: CenHudDude
Subject: Re: Corey Allen friend or foe?
In reply to: Oh well 's message, "Re: Corey Allen friend or foe?" on Monday, April21, 06:38:am

“Friend or Foe”? I’m not sure that Mr. Allen is either. There are certainly far worse persons in the city than he is. His downfall, which I don’t think he can recover from, is that he spouts a revisionist history of Newburgh at the time of urban renewal. He is correct that like many cities across the country, the Newburgh urban renewal program displaced many poor people (both black and white). Very little new housing was ever built in the waterfront urban renewal area to re-house these individuals.

Unfortunately, he likes to paint a picture of a thriving black business community in the urban renewal area. He seems to equate that to the “Black Wall Street” of Tulsa, Oklahoma at the beginning of the 20th century. This is far from the truth. In reality, the opening of the Newburgh Beacon Bridge in 1963, which ended the ferry service, was the death knell of the waterfront business community. By the time that the buildings were torn down in the early 1970s, most of the businesses had already been closed. With very few exceptions, there were no thriving businesses whether black or white owned, by the time that the buildings were demolished.

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