It was once an icon of architecture in the public interest. That didn't stop it from becoming a death trap.
The Philadelphia row house and the Bronx tower are linked by history as well. Today, we might be more likely to associate the row house with high-quality lodging and the brick tower with maligned housing projects.
the troubled modernist tower blocks that replaced them. To see Twin Parks North West transformed into a site of tragedy and a symbol of disrepair is a bitter irony for a building once held up as the cutting edge of public design. At the time, the Bronx’s East Tremont neighborhood was suffering from the consequences of highway construction, disinvestment, white flight, and a dwindling, substandard housing stock. In a, one pastor said the neighborhood was losing 1,000 housing units a year to fire and abandonment. “Back there is the kind of house we wanted to tear down,” Paul Matson, the longtime minister of Tremont Methodist Church, told the filmmakers, gesturing to a typical row house.
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