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Assassination of New York by Bob Fitch (1993, Hardcover)
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Product Identifiers
PublisherVerso Books
ISBN-100860913902
ISBN-139780860913900
eBay Product ID (ePID)1201969
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Book TitleAssassination of New York
Number of Pages318 Pages
LanguageEnglish
TopicAmerican Government / Local, Economic Conditions, American Government / State
Publication Year1993
GenrePolitical Science, Business & Economics
AuthorBob Fitch
FormatHardcover
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Item Weight20 oz
Item Length0.1 in
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Intended AudienceTrade
LCCN93-037604
TitleLeadingThe
Reviews"Bob Fitch has turned over every document in the archives to find out who was in the firing squad that murdered New York: the unelected power brokers in the boardrooms, the planners from private foundations, and the political puppets who meekly pulled the trigger on blue-collar industries when they were given the order to shoot ... Nothing that has been written about New York ... comes close."-Jim Dwyer, New York Newsday
Dewey Edition20
Grade FromCollege Freshman
Dewey Decimal330.9747/1
SynopsisRobert Fitch argues that, within a generation, New York City has been transformed from the richest city in the world to one of the poorest in North America. The pillars of its economy--Macys, the "Daily News," Citibank, Olympia and York, the Trump organization--have cracked or collapsed. Today, the officially poor in New York number nearly 2,000,000 and more than 400,000 residents of the city are without jobs. In this indictment of those who have wrecked New York, Robert Fitch points to the financial and real-estate elites. Their goals, he argues, have been simple and monolithic: to increase the value of the land they own by extruding low-rent workers and factories, replacing them with high-rent professionals and office buildings. The planning establishment has been able of raise the value of real estate inside the city boundaries over twenty-fold. In doing so, Fitch suggests, it effectively closed New Yorks deep-water port, eliminated its freight rail system, shuttered its factories and destroyed its capacity for incubating new business. Now the real-estate values have collapsed. The city is left with 65,000,000 square feet of office space--enough to last, without any new building, to the middle of the twenty-first century. In pursuit of those who are responsible, Fitch arraigns the great and the bad of the citys establishment: Roger Starr, architect of "planned shrinkage" (the withdrawal of fire, police and mass transit services from black and Latino neighborhoods); the Ford Foundation, which proposed converting vast tracts of the South Bronx into a vegetable garden; City Hall fixers like John Zucotti, Herb Sturz and James Felt, who cut the deals between government and real estate by working for both sides; and the Rockefeller family, whose involuntary investment in the Rockefeller Center became a gigantic "tar baby," nearly swallowing up their entire fortune. Drawing on never-before-published material from the Rockefeller family archives, as well as other archival documents, this book aims to expose those responsible for the demise of New York., Robert Fitch argues that, within a generation, New York City has been transformed from the richest city in the world to one of the poorest in North America. The pillars of its economy-Macy's, the Daily News , Citibank, Olympia and York, the Trump organization-have cracked or collapsed. Today, the officially poor in New York number nearly 2,000,000 and more than 400,000 residents of the city are without jobs. In this indictment of those who have wrecked New York, Robert Fitch points to the financial and real-estate elites. Their goals, he argues, have been simple and monolithic: to increase the value of the land they own by extruding low-rent workers and factories, replacing them with high-rent professionals and office buildings. The planning establishment has been able of raise the value of real estate inside the city boundaries over twenty-fold. In doing so, Fitch suggests, it effectively closed New York's deep-water port, eliminated its freight rail system, shuttered its factories and destroyed its capacity for incubating new business. Now the real-estate values have collapsed. The city is left with 65,000,000 square feet of office space-enough to last, without any new building, to the middle of the twenty-first century. In pursuit of those who are responsible, Fitch arraigns the great and the bad of the city's establishment: Roger Starr, architect of "planned shrinkage" (the withdrawal of fire, police and mass transit services from black and Latino neighborhoods); the Ford Foundation, which proposed converting vast tracts of the South Bronx into a vegetable garden; City Hall fixers like John Zucotti, Herb Sturz and James Felt, who cut the deals between government and real estate by working for both sides; and the Rockefeller family, whose involuntary investment in the Rockefeller Center became a gigantic "tar baby," nearly swallowing up their entire fortune. Drawing on never-before-published material from the Rockefeller family archives, as well as other archival documents, this book aims to expose those responsible for the demise of New York.
LC Classification NumberHC108.N7F58 1993
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- Jan 25, 2022
An important book
One of the most significant books on modern New York City — and to some extent, all modern urban systems — in the last 50 years. Its discussion of how real estate and its related businesses of finance, insurance, and law became the dominant economic and political forces in the city, and why, makes Robert Caro’s enormous work on Robert Moses, “The Power Broker,” merely a footnote.Verified purchase: YesCondition: Pre-owned
