In the 1970s, the Bronx was burning, but some residents were rebuilding. Decade of Fire, a new documentary, tells a different story about the borough’s fires—and the communities affected by them.

Mike Amadeo, who has owned a music store in the South Bronx for nearly fifty years, remembers the blight of the 1970s.. “There were periods when we had no water, no heat. My phone was hooked up ...

From Independent Lens, the film Decade of Fire covers a shocking but untold piece of American urban history, when the South Bronx was on fire in the 1970s. Left unprotected by the city government ...

Those of us who grew up in the South Bronx during the 1970s and ’80s have been defined by the fires that incinerated our neighborhoods, which had already been set up to fail by disinvestment ...

Benjamin, 25, a founder of the Ghetto Brothers, was on his way to negotiate a peace deal between two street gangs in the South Bronx when he was brutally murdered, beaten to death with a pipe.

For more on the Bronx in the 1970s: meet the Reapers, a 1970s South Bronx street gang, and revisit videos from that time. Tagged. 1970s. baz luhrmann. netflix. the bronx. the get down. trailer.

The Bronx is back. After losing one fifth of its population in the 1970s, the borough is surging, with new construction leading to population growth.

In the 1970s, wide swaths of the Bronx were destroyed by fires: in 44 of the borough’s 289 census tracts (an area containing anywhere from 1,200 to 8,000 people), more than 50% of the buildings ...

Professor Mark Naison talked about the history of hip hop and why it originated in the Bronx. He describes how the new percussive music of the early 1970s was spread through outdoor parties, left ...