17 Jul 2020 RogerEbert.com: Review: Decade of Fire
Americans of a certain age will remember the images of the Bronx in ruins. Click to read more. ...
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26 Feb 2020 The Weekly Journal: Puerto Rican Filmmaker Tells the Story of Struggling Communities in the Bronx
‘Decade of Fire’ uncovers the systemic racism that marginalized African-Americans and Puerto Ricans in the 1970s. Click to read more. ...
13 Feb 2020 City Limits: Film Offers Instruction on Self-Defense Against Urban Displacement
The old saying, often mangled, is that “those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.” But what of the rest of us? What are those who know history, and remember it, supposed to do with that knowledge? Click to read more. ...
17 Jan 2020 Latino USA – NPR: Looking Back On A ‘Decade Of Fire’
In the 1970s, a string of devastating fires would help make the South Bronx a symbol of urban decay. In her documentary "Decade of Fire," co-director Vivian Vázquez Irizarry, who grew up in the South Bronx, tries to dissect and counter that negative image through...
28 Nov 2019 Marketplace: “Decade of Fire” shows how the people of the Bronx saved their neighborhood
Fires consumed New York City’s South Bronx throughout the 1970s. One year alone saw more than 4,000 fires set to the area’s apartment buildings, leveling entire city blocks and displacing countless families. Click to read more. ...
02 Nov 2019 NBC: NYC forgot the Bronx. Latinos and Blacks saved it, says new documentary.
"We did not burn the South Bronx," says filmmaker Vivian Vázquez Irrizary, who grew up in the borough. "In fact, we were the ones who saved it.” Click to read more. ...
01 Nov 2019 NY Daily News: ‘Decade of Fire’ documents why the Bronx burned and how the flames ignited residents’ fighting spirits
The stench of fire hung in the air. Sirens wailed. The Bronx was burning. And it was happening long before Howard Cosell announced it during Game 2 of the 1977 World Series. Click to read more. ...
30 Oct 2019 Democracy Now: Who Burned the Bronx? PBS Film “Decade of Fire” Investigates 1970s Fires That Displaced Thousands
We continue our discussion with Vivian Vázquez Irizarry and Gretchen Hildebran, co-producers and co-directors of the PBS film “Decade of Fire,” which re-examines the devastating fires that swept the South Bronx throughout the 1970s. Click to read more. ...
30 Oct 2019 Democracy Now: How Policymakers Tried to Clear the Bronx of Its Original Residents by Letting It Burn
The new documentary “Decade of Fire” looks back at the history of a crisis that unfolded in New York City in the 1970s, when the South Bronx faced a near-constant barrage of fires that displaced almost a quarter-million people and devastated an entire community. Click to...
29 Oct 2019 Remezcla: REVIEW: ‘Decade of Fire’ Is a Personal Look at the Bronx’s Burning Buildings of the 1970s
In the 1970s, the Bronx was on fire. During the 1977 blackout alone, for example, it’s estimated that 1,000 fires burned in the New York City borough. Click to read more. ...