After World War II, national breweries such as Anheuser Busch started huge marketing programs which marked the homogenization of American beer drinking tastes and the decline of local breweries everywhere..
NYC before Prohibition had tons of small breweries and beer gardens, especially on what was then rural Staten Island, where people would take the ferry from "The City" and go for outings especially in the summer. There is one Czech brewery that is still around which is a holdout from those days..
NY beers included Rheingold, with its famous ( and frequently kidded) "Miss Rheingold" campaigns, with ads especially in the subways...
Well, the City as I understand it at some point- believe this was late 70's--decided it had to build good quality housing on what was now the defunct Ruppert Brewery site...
From the beginning, Ruppert Towers was SUPPOSED to have, I believe, a certain percentage of "affordable housing" apartments and some disputes arose over these because as I remember some people claimed the City was going to house/ was already housing welfare families in them...
But I know there are some more interesting bits about this...let me just post something from the net to give you an idea how this all evolved...here from a site called "Wikimapia"-- sort of a funny posting, especially if you play close attention to the comments attached...
Ruppert-Yorkville Towers (New York City, New York)
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Site of the former Ruppert Brewery (owned by Jacob Ruppert, who owned the Yankees).
Built in the 1970s under the Mitchell-Lama housing program as government assisted middle income housing. Converted to
condominiums in 2003. Now houses large numbers of families with young children, as well as many elderly residents.
Built in the 1970s under the Mitchell-Lama housing program as government assisted middle income housing. Converted to
condominiums in 2003. Now houses large numbers of families with young children, as well as many elderly residents.
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Newark, New Jersey, New York City, New York, Town of Huntington
Coordinates: 40°46'54"N 73°57'1"W
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By the way, Mayor Rudi Giuliani lived for several years in a condo just North of the Ruppert Towers after divorcing his wife...which also meant a lot of uniform and plainclothes cops were in the once crime-problematic area ( especially 96th Street) --that had quite an impact....
