Urban renewal leveled huge Manhattan neighborhoods as new housing after World War II

Evidence

Ruins were already present. Since the end of World War II, huge chunks of Manhattan had been leveled in the name of urban renewal, the new term for “slum clearance.” Buildings, entire blocks, even whole neighborhoods might disappear as if overnight, often rebuilt in the form of brutalist public housing projects. Many of these were on the Lower East Side. — J. Hoberman, Everything Is Now, 108

Categorization

• XREF: Connects to Moses’s urban-renewal clearance which my library of gentrification studies treats as the origin of artist-led displacement. — connects to: Urban renewal displaced nearly half a million New Yorkers to build rich housing. — Robert A. Caro, The Power Broker: Robert Moses and the…, 102; New York City dominated American urban renewal spending under Robert Moses — Robert A. Caro, The Power Broker: Robert Moses and the…, 63