Reading reactionary New York

Part 1, Reading the Ridgewood Times, 1910s-1970s

“Stand or Fall Together,” 1912 call for merchants, property owners and common people to unite against the city and “predatory corporations.” This theme was repeated regularly for much of the next century.

Scans from the 1910s-1920s: socialists, suffragists and the emergence of a new populism

This era saw a tolerance of some degree of women’s rights, and for a brief period, socialist voices. The space given to the socialists dwindled at the time of the first Red Scare and the American entry into WWI.

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Includes ad for “Masterly lectures on socialism”; pro-suffragist notice; publisher G. Schubel’s articulation of German-American sentiments on WWI; a big minstrel show and public utilities; “Taxpayers Storm City Hall” over sewer taxes, 1929.

Scans from the 30s: Property owners get increasingly militant; America First in Queens; German-American societies distance themselves from Hitler

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Non-Ridgewood Times scans on 1930s Nazis in Ridgewood

These scans from the Long Island Daily Advocate and the Nazi “Friends of the New Germany” pamphlet provide some context for the volatile tenor of the street-fighting 1930s in Ridgewood (and much of NYC).

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Scans from the 40s-50s: The US entry into WWII, taxpayers against public housing

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The 60s: militant landlords against rent control, the 1961 zoning resolution, the anti-busing movement grows

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The 60s continued: militant landlords, the anti-busing movement grows

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Late 60s-70s: Agony of Bushwick era

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This era of the RT is best summed up by the seven-part series, the Agony of Bushwick, which ran following the Blackout of 1977. The entire series was collected in pamphlet form and can be read on the Internet Archive.

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