"even then, Powell recalls, residents locked their doors. "Burglaries were common," he writes. "Drug use was on the rise. Street fights and knifings occurred."
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In that same era of decline, as heroin and guns flooded the area, Powell's old building was abandoned and burned in the mass arson that gutted whole neighborhoods of the Bronx. Businesses closed, factories shut down, people moved out.
The 41st Precinct stationhouse was known as Fort Apache. Later, when all the shells of buildings had been knocked down, the station was dubbed Little House on the Prairie.
Charlotte St., several blocks from Powell's street, was a campaign stop for two men who became President. Jimmy Carter and Ronald Reagan both paused there to proclaim it the symbol of urban decay.
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In 1991, while Powell directed Operation Desert Storm at a cost of 150 U.S. lives, 51 people, most of them young men, were slain in his old neighborhood.
A mural on the wall of the building across from his old home is dedicated to the murder victims of the '90s: "G-Man," "J-Prod," "Bebe," and "Mark." "One Love" is emblazoned on the red heart in the center of the spray-painted tribute.
Home sweet home eh collin?
Very good. You should send that to General Bowel to “fesh” his memory. It’s now plain to see, he likes to rewrite history like the Klintonistas. What a HUGE fraud this man is. I liked & respected him once, too.