In New York City, the neighborhood dominated by Lincoln Center was once home to Black and Puerto Rican communities. Nearly 7,000 families were displaced for the arts complex to be built. Etienne Charles' new musical work addresses that difficult history.
Long before Lincoln Center existed, San Juan Hill was a nexus for African American and Caribbean culture. It nurtured many jazz greats, who lived and played there — including alto saxophonist Benny Carter, who grew up in the neighborhood, and pianist Herbie Nichols, who was born there to parents from St. Kitts and Trinidad.
"Yeah, well, I lived on one of those streets there for a number of years, and I know exactly what it was like," Moses responded. "It was the worst slum in New York," Moses insisted in the television interview."You want to leave it there? Why? Out of account of neighborhood business? Christ, you never could have been there. That was the worst slum in New York," he bellowed, clapping his hands for emphasis."And we cleared it out."is the director of the Center for Puerto Rican Studies at Hunter College. She says Robert Moses intentionally used highly charged language about San Juan Hill.
"Robert Moses in particular," Bonilla says,"He used a lot of kind of medical language talking about the slums as these cancers that had to be eradicated and cleaned up, almost as if it was a disease that could spread." A mural depicting the history of San Juan Hill by graffiti and visual artist Wicked GF and his graffiti crew The EX VANDALS, created in Brooklyn as part of thehide captionA mural depicting the history of San Juan Hill by graffiti and visual artist Wicked GF and his graffiti crew The EX VANDALS, created in Brooklyn as part of the60 years after Lincoln Center's opening and a $550 million renovation later, the New York Philharmonic's home at Lincoln Center, David Geffen Hall, is reopening...
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