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The Assassination of New York Paperback – April 17, 1996
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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.
- Print length324 pages
- LanguageEnglish
- Publication dateApril 17, 1996
- Dimensions5.8 x 0.81 x 9.1 inches
- ISBN-101859841554
- ISBN-13978-1859841556
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- Publisher : Verso Books (April 17, 1996)
- Language : English
- Paperback : 324 pages
- ISBN-10 : 1859841554
- ISBN-13 : 978-1859841556
- Item Weight : 1.34 pounds
- Dimensions : 5.8 x 0.81 x 9.1 inches
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Also very wordy and not worth the time.