Banana Kelly Community Improvement | Decade of Fire
Clip: Season 21 Episode 2 | 1m 1sVideo has Closed Captions
A community group in the Bronx in the '70s helps rebuild a neighborhood ravaged by fires.
This excerpt from the documentary Decade of Fire shows how the Banana Kelly Community Improvement Association, named after a banana-shaped portion of Kelly Street in the Bronx, took matters into their own hands. The group formed to help rehabilitate buildings -- that they did not own, working for free -- to help save their neighborhood in a city ravaged by fires in the '70s.
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Banana Kelly Community Improvement | Decade of Fire
Clip: Season 21 Episode 2 | 1m 1sVideo has Closed Captions
This excerpt from the documentary Decade of Fire shows how the Banana Kelly Community Improvement Association, named after a banana-shaped portion of Kelly Street in the Bronx, took matters into their own hands. The group formed to help rehabilitate buildings -- that they did not own, working for free -- to help save their neighborhood in a city ravaged by fires in the '70s.
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Decade of Fire covers the shocking story of when the South Bronx was on fire in the '70s. (30s)
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