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Researching Urban Renewal

Dave Hochfelder, Ann Pfau, and Stacy Sewell research and write about urban renewal. Learn what we are finding in and out of the archives.

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Urban Highways, Research, and Reparations

A year ago today, Gov. Kathy Hochul signed into law a bill establishing the New York State (NYS) Community Commission on Reparations Remedies. To learn how urban renewal might figure into the Commission’s mandate, see our Rockefeller Instit...

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Forcible Displacement (It's Not Just Urban Renewal)

We estimate that roughly 3 million Americans1 were displaced by federally-funded urban renewal and highway projects, 1950-1980.2 But because of the multiple laws and agencies involved, we haven’t (yet) been able come up with a more precise...

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Auburn's Unusual Relocation Records

Auburn’s Urban Renewal Agency files are fantastic—complete, organized, and well maintained. They are stored in the top floor of City Hall. (A related collection of about 300 photographs is in the Cayuga County Historian’s Office and availab...

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What We Found in an Amsterdam Carriage House

Amsterdam, NY, was the first location we (Dave and PhD student Jack Grobe) visited as part of a grant-funded project to inventory urban renewal records. What we found highlights both the large volume of documents generated by local agencies...

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Urban Renewal Records Around New York State

In 2019 we received a National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) grant, in partnership with the New York State Archives, to create inventories of urban renewal records held locally by many municipalities around the state. Ninety communitie...

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    Dave Hochfelder, Ann Pfau, and Stacy Sewell research the history of urban renewal in New York State.

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