redlining – NewYorkScapes https://newyorkscapes.org NewYorkScapes is a research community dedicated to exploring the literary, historical, and social aspects of the city of New York using digital forms of scholarship. Mon, 03 Apr 2017 16:27:16 +0000 en hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.7.1 Edward DeGrant, Pauline Levine, Redlining, and Two New York Museums https://newyorkscapes.org/project/edward-degrant-pauline-levine-redlining-and-two-new-york-museums/ Thu, 30 Mar 2017 15:56:29 +0000 http://newyorkscapes.org/project/edward-degrant-pauline-levine-redlining-and-two-new-york-museums/ What happened to the residents of these houses-turned-museums after they moved out? Pauline Levine once lived at 97 Orchard Street, now the highly regarded Lower East Side Tenement Museum. Edward DeGrant was born around the same time in the African-American community of Weeksville. He lived at 5 Hunterfly Road, now the Weeksville Heritage Center. As a result of race-based-mortgage-lending…

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