Many people feel they know New York, even from a distance. But our reporter’s reading guide offers a more up-close-and-personal view
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take much to be a New Yorker. You don’t have to be born there, nor even to live there for long. Just move there. You will need to find a go-toin order to feel at home. And you must learn how to say “not for nothing” in the right context. Much of this should come easy. Perhaps because New York serves as a character in so many film and television series, many people feel they know the great city even from a distance.
During the covid-19 pandemic, in one broadcast video call after another New York’s politicians and journalists appeared with’s “The Power Broker” visible on their bookshelves. They may have been hoping to show that, as readers of the 1,296-page tome, they understood the city’s politics and how its government works. Published in 1974 and meticulously researched by Mr Caro, the book offers a detailed profile of, who held many positions simultaneously in municipal and state government.
For decades after Robert Moses, big projects were not on the agenda. That changed after the attacks of September 11th 2001. Michael Bloomberg, a billionaire media mogul, was elected mayor even as the 16-acre pit, the remains of the destroyed Twin Towers, still burned. He and Daniel Doctoroff, his deputy mayor for economic development, used the rebuilding of Lower Manhattan as a catalyst for rethinking the functioning of the city more widely.
How quickly will New York bounce back from the lingering economic effects of the pandemic, if at all? Many office buildings remain half empty and shops unoccupied. Graffiti and squeegee men, panhandling car windscreen-washers, are reappearing. Crime is on the rise. Could New York now face a period like the 1970s when manufacturing decline hit the city, the population dwindled and confidence generally fell? New York took 25 years to recover from that.
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