The Neighborhood That Disappeared (2014)

In 1962, one of the most massive urban renewal projects in American history removed the cultural and ethnic heart of Albany, NY. An arrangement made by first term Governor Nelson A. Rockefeller and longtime Albany Mayor, Erastus Corning the 2nd, displaced almost eight per cent of the City's diverse population, razed more than a thousand buildings, dislodged 3,600 households, and closed 350 businesses. The South End of Albany was a polyglot of cultures and customs, and because it has disappeared, its former residents, their children and their grandchildren. can never go home again. The Neighborhood That Disappeared will tell the story of intrepid immigrants and others that were uprooted by politicians who failed to value the community that they built.