• Ronek Park: Postwar Non-discriminatory Housing on Long Island | A New York Minute in History

  • May 29 2024
  • Length: 30 mins
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Ronek Park: Postwar Non-discriminatory Housing on Long Island | A New York Minute in History

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  • This episode tells the story of Ronek Park, a non-discriminatory housing development built in 1950 in the village of North Amityville. Unlike the many housing developments created in the post-WWII U.S. that followed the practice of redlining and did not allow African American or Jewish people to buy homes, Ronek Park specifically marketed itself as allowing anyone to purchase a home regardless of race or creed. Marker of Focus: Ronek Park, Village of North Amityville, Suffolk County, Long Island Interviewees: Mary Cascone, Town of Babylon Historian and Eugene Burnett, Ronek Park resident and former Town of Babylon Police Department Sergeant. Further Reading: Dolores Hayden, Building Suburbia: Green Fields and Urban Growth, 1820-2000, 2004. Kenneth T. Jackson, Crabgrass Frontier: The Suburbanization of the United States, 1985. Gene Slater, Freedom to Discriminate: How Realtors Conspired to Segregate Housing and Divide America, 2021. Teaching
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