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New York, New York, New York: Four Decades of Success, Excess, and Transformation
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Overview
Dangerous, filthy, and falling apart, garbage piled on its streets and entire neighborhoods reduced to rubble; New York’s terrifying, if liberating, state of nature in 1978 also made it the capital of American culture. Over the next thirty-plus years, though, it became a different place—kinder and meaner, richer and poorer, more like America and less like what it had always been.
New York, New York, New York, Thomas Dyja’s sweeping account of this metamorphosis, shows it wasn’t the work of a single policy, mastermind, or economic theory, nor was it a morality tale of gentrification or crime. Instead, three New Yorks evolved in turn. After brutal retrenchment came the dazzling Koch Renaissance and the Dinkins years that left the city’s liberal traditions battered but laid the foundation for the safe streets and dotcom excess of Giuliani’s Reformation in the ‘90s. Then the planes hit on 9/11. The shaky city handed itself over to Bloomberg who merged City Hall into his personal empire, launching its Reimagination. From Hip Hop crews to Wall Street bankers, D.V. to Jay-Z, Dyja weaves New Yorkers famous, infamous, and unknown—Yuppies, hipsters, tech nerds, and artists; community organizers and the immigrants who made this a truly global place—into a narrative of a city creating ways of life that would ultimately change cities everywhere.
With great success, though, came grave mistakes. The urbanism that reclaimed public space became a means of control, the police who made streets safe became an occupying army, technology went from a means to the end. Now, as anxiety fills New Yorker’s hearts and empties its public spaces, it’s clear that what brought the city back—proximity, density, and human exchange—are what sent Covid-19 burning through its streets, and the price of order has come due. A fourth evolution is happening and we must understand that the greatest challenge ahead is the one New York failed in the first three: The cures must not be worse than the disease.
Exhaustively researched, passionately told, New York, New York, New York is a colorful, inspiring guide to not just rebuilding but reimagining a great city.
Product Details
ISBN-13: | 9781797122540 |
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Publisher: | Simon & Schuster Audio |
Publication date: | 03/16/2021 |
Product dimensions: | 6.10(w) x 5.60(h) x 1.90(d) |
About the Author
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Jacques Roy is a audio narrator and actor, known for The Lower Angels and Room and Board.
Hometown:
New York, New YorkDate of Birth:
July 31, 1962Place of Birth:
Chicago, IllinoisEducation:
B.A in English, Columbia UniversityTable of Contents
Introduction xiii
I Renaissance
Chapter 1 "I Love New York" Day 3
Chapter 2 Something It Hadn't Been 21
Chapter 3 New York Equalize You 43
Chapter 4 Every Night a Different Channel 55
Chapter 5 To Lake Ladoga, and Beyond 65
Chapter 6 The Age of the Individual 81
Chapter 7 Be a Card-Carrying Capitalist 97
Chapter 8 They Begin to Blossom 111
Chapter 9 The Devil and Ed Koch 133
Chapter 10 From Queens Come Kings! 147
Chapter 11 Building the Bonfire 159
II Reconsideration
Chapter 12 The Age of Atonement 171
Chapter 13 A Psychic Turning Point 181
Chapter 14 Dave, Do Something! 191
Chapter 15 Mayor School 207
Chapter 16 The End of the One-Tribe Nation 217
Chapter 17 You Were on Your Own 231
III Reformation
Chapter 18 More Like the Rest of America 247
Chapter 19 Larceny in Everyone's Heart 257
Chapter 20 Cyber City 269
Chapter 21 Whose World Is This? 279
Chapter 22 Heat Is Quality 293
Chapter 23 Stand Clear of the Closing Doors 303
September 11, 2001 319
IV Reimagination
Chapter 24 The Pile, the Pit, and the Bullpen 333
Chapter 25 Oz Wasn't Built in a Day 345
Chapter 26 "B'klyn Cheers, Trembles" 357
Chapter 27 Too Big to Fail 367
Chapter 28 Hard Landings 383
Epilogue 403
Acknowledgments 423
Notes 427
Index 499