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‘Decade of Fire’ Review: A Community Rises From the Ashes

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Christopher Campbell
May 02, 2019
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Decade of Fire shows us the history of a community in flames. Throughout the 1970s, a series of fires raged in the South Bronx, devastating local tenement buildings as well as the lives of those who called them home. The borough lost nearly 80 percent of its housing over the course of 10 years, displacing a quarter of a million residents and creating wi…

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