Case Against Lincoln Center, The

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Case Against Lincoln Center, The is a short film from 1968 released on 16mm. It is held in the Prelinger Archives collection.

On the Lincoln Center redevelopment project and the destruction of community on New York City's Upper West Side. With many shots of Puerto Ricans and their neighborhood, seemingly with direct sound.

Description from Roz Payne archives:

To keep the well-to-do from continuing to flee the city and depleting its tax base, city, state, and federal government, and the Rockefellers, Morgans, and Mellons finance the prestigious Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts. It was built in the middle of a Puerto Rican ghetto, displacing thousands of families and a lively street culture. Upper-income families move into high-rise apartment houses and gourmandise the "humanities," financially inaccessible and culturally irrelevant to the lives of the former residents.

Case Against Lincoln Center, The
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Newsreel
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1968
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