The Assassination of New York (Forbidden Bookshelf Book 8)

The Assassination of New York (Forbidden Bookshelf Book 8)

<DIV>The story of how the richest city in the world became one of the poorest in North America, with a new introduction by Peter Kwong How did New York City come to be a network of steel towers, banks, and nail salons, with chain drugstores on every blockâ€”a place where, increasingly,Â no one can afford to live except the lords of Wall Street and foreign billionaires, and where more and more of the Big Appleâ€™s best-loved businessesÂ have closed their doors? It didnâ€™t start with Michael Bloombergâ€”or with Robert Moses. As Robert Fitch meticulously demonstrates in this eye-opening book, the planning to assassinate New York began a century ago, as the cityâ€™s very richest fewâ€”the Morgans, the Mellons, and especially the Rockefellersâ€”looked for ways to maximize the value of their real estate by pushing Gothamâ€™s vibrant and astonishingly varied manufacturing sector out of town, and with it, the cityâ€™s working class. The Assassination of New YorkÂ attacks a Goliath-like enemy: the real-estate developers who maintain a stranglehold on the cityâ€™s most valuable commodity. Their efforts to increase land value by replacing low-rent workers and factories with high-rent professionals and office buildings was one of the single most decisive factors in the cityâ€™s downturn. In the 1980s the number of real-estate vacancies eclipsed that of the fiscal crisis of the 1970s. In September of 1992 there was a staggering twenty-five million square feet of empty office space. Are the cityâ€™s problems fixable? How will the future of New York play out through the twenty-first century? Fitch comes up with solutions, from saving jobs to promoting economic diversity to rebuilding the crumbling infrastructure. But it will take vision and hard work to restore New York to what it once was while creating a new and better home for coming generations. </DIV>
Country USA
Manufacturer Open Road Media
Binding Kindle Edition
ReleaseDate 2014-09-16
Format Kindle eBook

Country	USA
Manufacturer	Open Road Media
Binding	Kindle Edition
ReleaseDate	2014-09-16
Format	Kindle eBook

The Assassination of New York (Forbidden Bookshelf Book 8)

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