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Ian Frazier’s Tour of “Paradise Bronx”

2024/9/3
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Ian Frazier: 布朗克斯区是纽约市不可或缺的一部分，它连接着其他区域，防止其漂流。他希望展现布朗克斯区鲜为人知却充满魅力的一面，纠正人们对其的误解。他通过长期的步行观察，记录了布朗克斯区独特的地理环境、人文景观和历史变迁，展现了其复杂而多样的面貌。他认为，布朗克斯区经历了高速公路建设带来的巨大代价，也经历了大规模火灾的冲击，但它依然是充满活力和韧性的社区。他关注的是那些被忽视的角落和人们的故事，以及他们如何应对城市发展带来的挑战。他认为，布朗克斯区是纽约市重要的移民聚居地，为许多人提供了生活和发展的机会，并对城市发展做出了独特的贡献。 Zach Helfand: 作为Ian Frazier的同行，他参与了对布朗克斯区的实地考察，并提供了对高桥、高速公路系统以及嘻哈音乐起源地的补充描述和见解。他与Ian Frazier一起，探讨了布朗克斯区在城市发展中的复杂角色，以及其历史变迁对当地居民生活的影响。他补充了关于布朗克斯区火灾原因的细节，以及政府政策失误对该地区的影响。

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Ian Frazier and Zach Helfand explore the High Bridge, originally an aqueduct built in 1842. It brought fresh water to Manhattan, addressing cholera outbreaks and fire risks. The bridge's height is crucial for the gravity-fed system, providing sufficient water pressure.
  • High Bridge was originally an aqueduct.
  • Built in 1842, it solved water and fire problems for Manhattan.
  • Gravity-fed system requires the bridge's height for water pressure.

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“I like to look at places that people aren’t seeing,” says Ian Frazier), the author of “Great Plains” and “Travels in Siberia,” and the new “Paradise Bronx: The Life and Times of New York’s Greatest Borough).” “Not only do people not know about” the Bronx, “but what they know about it is wrong.”  The book, which was excerpted recently) in The New Yorker, came out of fifteen years’ worth of long walks through the city streets, and on a hot morning recently, he invited a colleague, Zach Helfand), to join him on foot. They admired the majestic Romanesque-style stonework of the High Bridge, where Edgar Allan Poe would walk while mourning his wife, in the eighteen-forties; the impressively tangled connections of the interstate highway system that engineers once called “chicken guts”; and walked east to the Cedar Playground, which has a strong claim to being the birthplace of hip-hop.  

*Note: The segment misstates the year Edgar Allan Poe moved to the Bronx. Poe moved to New York City in 1844, and to the Bronx in 1846. *