![]() Instead, three New Yorks evolved in turn. 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. 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. ![]() The National Book Review 10 Best Non-Fiction Books of 2021Ī lively, immersive history by an award-winning urbanist of New York City’s transformation, and the lessons it offers for the city’s future.ĭangerous, 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.The New York Times 100 Notable Books of 2021. ![]() New York, New York, New York Four Decades of Success, Excess, and Transformation ![]()
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