The Comprehensive Community Revitalization Program (CCRP), which ran from 1992 through 1998, concentrated its efforts on struggling South Bronx neighborhoods along the Cross Bronx Expressway that had since the 1960s and 1970s been battling depopulation, arson, declining business activity and job loss.
The ‘Promise Neighborhoods’ plan has the policy world abuzz about the first major federal antipoverty effort in decades. But the effort has not yet been launched, and details are hard to come by.
A sampling of opinion from the streets of Harlem yields a positive view of the Children’s Zone.
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