A City Versus its People: the Triumph of Lincoln Center and the Tragedy of San Juan Hill

National History Day Competition 2019: Triumph and Tragedy
Zoe Davis, Lena Farley, Allen Wang
New York, New York
A documentary detailing the creation of Lincoln Center and the demolition of the existing neighborhood -- San Juan Hill.

[@mattg2612]

Great work, thank you for sharing!

[@BronxRisen]

I performed there as a NYC kid apart of the Theatre Development Foundation. No mention ever made about those before.

[@bklyngirl913]

This is a great history of San Juan Hill and the current issue of Manhatanville.

[@alijordanx8954]

Damn, Seneca Village, Little Africa, San Juan Hill now Manhattanville

[@mariecolette170]

And of course the only narrative that they have pushed about San Juan Hill is how “crime ridden” and “dangerous” it was. Sigh.
Yet it was actually more dangerous in Times Square.
Regardless thank you for shining light on this lost neighborhood.

[@hirosavage]

RIP San Juan hill💯

[@musicom67]

Brooklyn Center and Atlantic Yards is a similar example. That area was a dump in the 1980s...

[@Lsapito]

San Juan hills was a Puerto Rican and Hispanic neighborhood. What's going on? That's why it's called San Juan. It was one of the first multicultural neighborhood in NYC.

[@1780scottie]

This was a tragedy.

[@flyingvguy6833]

I'm sorry thanks for this but I'm glad I grew up with Lincoln center, crime was a nightmare in the Manhattan growing up and No Solution Whatsoever at that time was going to be found to stop what was going to come if not for that and Mnt Sini saving at least a part of spanish harlem from itself, it was bad enough with that development, what would it have been like without it.

[@phyllissegura4297]

Where did the San Juan residents go? Good report to correct amnesia. Voice over annoying voice.

[@Solrac1424]

Moses was a despot!

[@warsr519]

Smh

[@1780scottie]

Nice but people lost their homes, their communities and their support networks.