Lincoln Center’s site required obliterating the Black and Puerto Rican San Juan Hill neighborhood

Evidence

Harlem and East Harlem had public housing projects. So did the area around Pennsylvania Station, not to mention Brooklyn and Queens or the Bronx, which Moses bifurcated with two colossal expressways. Few of these developments were as ambitious as the Lincoln Square Renewal Project, which despite four years of community resistance obliterated the largely Black and Puerto Rican neighborhood of San Juan Hill to create space for the Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts. — J. Hoberman, Everything Is Now, 112

Categorization

• XREF: A concrete instance of ‘culture displacing the culturally disfavored’ — valuable alongside Zukin-style gentrification claims on the shelf.