>>1752692You wouldn't be wrong to think so. Parkchester was part of the same social engineering plan that gave birth to the projects. Its charter was explicitly racial in nature, much like several other developments in the city which were reserved for different races (prior to that, things were far less segregated than they are now, though of course there were still neighborhoods with strong racial identities)
At the time of this map, much of the upper east side and midtown were designated "hazardous'
