Despite demolition and crime fears, most residents stayed until 1960

Evidence

Still, most of East Tremont’s people stayed; their apartments were simply too precious to them for even fear to scare them away. In 1960, the year the expressway’s East Tremont section opened, there were still—four years after demolition in the area had begun—an estimated 25,000 Jews in that neighborhood. — Robert A. Caro, The Power Broker, 3716