Alfred E. Smith Houses, Building 8
26 Madison Street | also 23 St James Place, 25 St James Place, 21 St James Place | Two Bridges | built 1950
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The city photographed every building for its tax records around 1940 and again in the 1980s. NYC Municipal Archives.
Written with AI from the source each entry cites, then fact-checked.
- 1955
Twenty neighborhood groups form the Two Bridges Neighborhood Council to cool tensions around Smith Houses
As the Smith Houses brought more diversity, Italian, Black and Puerto Rican families met amid gang fights and racial friction. In 1955 representatives of twenty local organizations formed the Two Bridges Neighborhood Council, guided by a social worker assigned by Hamilton-Madison House. It set up an emergency committee to defuse street rumbles, ran a year-round sports program for 500 to 600 youngsters, and began a narcotics education committee.
Source: socialwelfare.library.vcu.edu
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