How East New York Became a GhettoIn response to the riots of the mid 60s, Walter Thabit was hired to work with the community of East New York to develop a plan for low and moderate income public housing. In the years that followed, he experienced first hand the forces that had engineered East New Yorks dramatic decline and that continued to work against its successful revitalization. How East New York Became a Ghetto describes the shift of East New York from a working class immigrant