The city we became7/2/2023 ![]() ![]() ![]() But when you think about the hopes and the futures that were destroyed to make it, it reminds you that New York is always this shiny happy present overlaying a disturbing past. ![]() Everyone loves Central Park, it’s a wonderful place. They were given a tiny amount of money, Seneca Village was destroyed, and Central Park was in its place. He could not stand this, he found it so offensive that he basically worked with people in the city government to eminent-domain away these people’s property. What do you make of it: how does it operate What is its intent 2. ![]() Start by considering the unusual form this alien force takes in attacking New York City. Moses couldn’t stand the rampant miscegenation of all these white people f-ing all these black people. Well add publisher questions if and when theyre available in the meantime, use our LitLovers talking points to help start a discussion for THE CITY WE BECAME then take off on your own: 1. They had formed their own infrastructure and built their own houses, and were going on about their lives. Basically, the undesirables of the city had formed a very nice community there. There’s a reference in the book to the fact that Central Park used to be the site of a place called Seneca Village, which was a community of free black people and Irish people back in the days when they weren’t considered white. “He deliberately designed a number of New York’s most iconic features with an eye towards destroying certain kinds of communities he didn’t like, or getting rid of what he thought of as undesirable elements. “A lot of New York was designed by Robert Moses, who was kind of a horrible human being when you dig into his life,” Jemisin says. ![]()
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