ABSTRACT
The situation of ethnic groups in New York City is described in a classic study by Nathan Glazer and Daniel P. Moynihan, Beyond the Melting Pot, 2d ed. New York City, chronically short of low income housing, for a long time managed to run a highly successful public housing program with only a few "problem" projects. Large housing authorities like the one in New York City transformed the notion of scattered sites outside ghetto and slum areas into a bureaucratic distortion of the original idea. The last major subway line to be built in New York City, in the thirties, ran through the area, which was then still, in large measure, empty lots and small communities of homeowners. The Black citizens of New York are as desperately eager to flee from crime-ridden neighborhoods as the White, and if they can, they do—out of the city, to West-chester, and within the city, to whatever area seems to provide greater safety.
