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Mar 2022
31m 26s

Episode 3: Things Fall Apart

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As more and more white people leave New York City for the suburbs, the Chabad-Lubavitchers and Caribbean-Americans remain in Crown Heights. Everyone is talking about violent crime. Private citizens patrol the streets in groups. New York City elects its first Black mayor, David Dinkins. And the neighborhood begins to reach its boiling point.

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