White people on the west side of Yonkers didn’t want poor black people in their areas, because they were bigots, because they were ignorant, and because they were selfish. They should have just called it what it was: Racism. They argued that would cause property values to drop they were afraid of crime, and they worried about a bad element in their neighborhoods. The intolerant residents of the white areas didn’t want public housing near them. In that case, a federal court ordered that the city build 200 units of pubic housing and situate them in the white part of town as part of a desegregation effort to reverse the previous segregationist policies that placed 7,000 public housing units in a one-square mile radius of Yonkers. In short, it began with the 1980 case, United States v. What that has to do with public housing is a long and complicated story. He left behind his wife, a clerk for the city of Yonkers. Six years later after being elected to mayor, Nick Wasicsko drove to the cemetery where his father was buried, walked up to his gravestone, sat down, pulled out a gun, and shot himself.
He was played exceptionally by Oscar Isaac, but this is what he looked like in real life. In 1987, at the age of 28, Nick Wasicsko became the youngest mayor in the nation at the time, and the youngest ever for the city of Yonkers. In a nutshell, this is the story of Show Me a Hero.
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It’s not exactly the kind of series that attracts a huge audience.īut it’s an important story, and one that everyone should know about whether they watch the mini-series or not. It was little seen when it broadcast on HBO (less than 500,000 viewers tuned in each week), there were no antiheroes, meth manufacturers, beheadings, red weddings, serial-killers, or orgy scenes. It’s a story about public housing, and because of that, I know that very few of you reading this will actually ever get around to watching the miniseries (which is streaming on HBO NOW), as noble as your intentions to do so may be. David Simon’s latest six-hour miniseries, Show Me a Hero, directed by Paul Haggis, was an important, incredible, fascinating, infuriating and sad account of a six-year period in the city of Yonkers, New York.
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