FREE: Downing Theater Mon May 15 "Lost Roundout"-a film about urban "removal"
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Lost Rondout: A Story of Urban Removal
May 15 Mon 7:30
Admission will be free; seating is on a first-come first-served basis.
Lynn Woods, film co-producer and co-director, will present the film and will be available for questions and discussion.
Produced/directed by Stephen Blauweiss and Lynn Woods
69 min | Documentary | In English | 2016
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ABOUT THE FILM Urban renewal left lasting scars, but many Americans are unaware of how their city came to be pocked and fragmented by parking lots, expressways, Brutalist buildings, and crime-plagued high-rise public housing projects. Lost Rondout: A Story of Urban Removal chronicles how a federally funded 1960s urban renewal project devastated the waterfront district of Kingston, New York, a microcosm of the urban disruption that occurred all over America. Nearly 500 buildings were destroyed and thousands of people were displaced, many of them African Americans who had difficulty finding new housing.
FREE: Downing Theater Mon May 15 "Lost Roundout"-a film about urban "removal"