The Hardships and Evolution of New York in 1960s

In the 1960s, New York faced economic hardship, crime rates and ethnic tensions increased to its peak. After Lindsay's winning coalition of wealthy Republicans and Liberal Democrats reformed but during his first term, he was only involved in racial politics and seemed to forget completely Basic political work to consolidate and expand the electoral base of the cause of the collapse of a major financial collapse city and a criminal disaster in fighting poverty and disregarding the middle class It makes the government faster to respond to community requests that are excluded from power.

The economy in the late 1960s was strong and the increased tax revenue made John V. Lindsay's expanded city budget balanced. However, until 1966, when the terms of settlement of transit strikes, combined with increased welfare costs and general economic decline. According to Kim Phillips-Fein's Fear City: New York's Fiscal Crisis And The Rise Of Austerity Politics, 'To support such wide-ranging public services, City Hall first under John Lindsay and later under Abraham Beame made use of short-term municipal bonds that matured quickly and put pressure on the city to choose between cutting services, levying new taxes, or seeking aid from the state or federal governments '(Jacqueline Brandon). Lindsay had to lobby the New York state legislature for a new city income tax and higher water rates for city residents, plus a new travel tax for residents working in the city but residing in places. different from the social chaos that determined the state of the country at the time, made the mayor's job extremely difficult.

In the years before the United States was sending poor and working-class young people to fight the war in Vietnam, strong incentives encouraged the abandonment of cities when the country did not provide them. equal opportunities for blacks and Puerto Rican people along with the anti-war movement, rapidly rising crime rates, racial atrocities in black as well as in telecommunications services seem to have made the city got out of control. Blacks and Puerto Rican people have been excluded from whites from the traditional neighborhood sponsor system that has been the standard tool of political engagement with the city's white ethnic groups that have exploded with such vengeance in the 1960s civil rights movement. Whites were driven from city integration and the threat of black and white crime.

From the scandal of the Union Traffic Workers Union in 1966 until 1968, the city was closed with the full stop of the subway and bus services that caused New Yorkers to suffer a strike. transit. And in an effort to decentralize the city's school system, Lindsay has granted three local school councils in the city complete control of their schools to allow for more vocal communities in their schools. they. However, this was considered by the city teachers association, the Union of Teachers Federation, to see the breakup as a way to break the alliance. According to The Origins Of 'Antibusing' Politics: New York City Protests And Revision Of The Civil Rights Act, 'These early demonstrations against school desegregation in the North offer an example of how local protests worked their way into national debates and how, in turn, the results national policies shaped what kinds of changes were possible at the local level. These early 'busing' protests and the results 'antibusing' provision in the Civil Rights Act limited the federal authority and political will to uproot school segregation in the North, and encouraged local, state, and national politicians to take up 'busing' as a way to oppose civil rights '(Matthew Delmont).

An unreasonable test, sponsored by the Ford Foundation, supervision of some schools became worse after an activist from the Brownsville area resident in Brooklyn tried to move 13 teachers and teachers most out of five schools under its control. The ensuing brawl of 350 union members and the subsequent battle for school leadership led to a series of citywide teacher strikes pitted against heavy Jewish teachers. masonry. In the movement to control the Brownsville community, anti-Semitism and low-level violence have become commonplace in some schools, as well as racist outrage underlining some of the media's statements. black leader. Meanwhile, urban renovation projects have destroyed hundreds of city blocks, removed and destabilized countless families that have caused the city to stumble from crisis to crisis.