New York, New York, New York: Four Decades of Success, Excess, and Transformation
Thomas Dyja
Simon & Schuster, March 2021

Hardcover | 6 x 9 inches | 544 pages | 45 illustrations | English | ISBN: 9781982149789 | $30.00

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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 gl...