The Fall Of New York And The Urban Crisis Of Affluence • Discoverology

The Fall Of New York And The Urban Crisis Of Affluence

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I have never seen what is going on now: the systematic, wholesale transformation of New York into a reserve of the obscenely wealthy and the barely here—a place increasingly devoid of the idiosyncrasy, the complexity, the opportunity, and the roiling excitement that make a city great.

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