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“late.” It had been a year of dubious distinctions: The city had logged a record number of murders (1,896); its courts had handled a record number of drug cases (110,000); its prisons housed a record number of inmates (nearly 18,000); and a record number of people (28,000) were still sleeping every night in the city’s shelters and welfare hotels. It had become impossible to talk about New York’s problems”
― The Gods of New York: Egotists, Idealists, Opportunists, and the Birth of the Modern City: 1986-1990
― The Gods of New York: Egotists, Idealists, Opportunists, and the Birth of the Modern City: 1986-1990
“appointment!’ ” In March of 1983, Kramer vented his anger toward the mayor in a six-thousand-word open letter in the New York Native, a gay biweekly, headlined 1,112 and Counting (the current number of AIDS cases in the United States). “I sometimes think that, like some king who has been so long on his throne he’s lost touch with his people, Koch is so isolated and protected by his staff that he is unaware of what fear and pain we’re in,” Kramer wrote. “No human being could otherwise be so useless to his suffering constituents.” He went on to”
― The Gods of New York: Egotists, Idealists, Opportunists, and the Birth of the Modern City: 1986-1990
― The Gods of New York: Egotists, Idealists, Opportunists, and the Birth of the Modern City: 1986-1990
“Underpinning this rapid physical transformation was a financial one. As a city of renters became a city of owners and the demand for office space surged, real estate taxes quickly evolved into the municipal government’s primary source of revenue. A less tangible but no less significant cultural shift accompanied the economic one. Power in New York had once been held by public officials and labor bosses. But with its working-class population shrinking and the government giving way to private industry, a new breed of power brokers was rising. “The people who are making the deals and shaping the future of the city are, more than ever, private individuals,” The New York Times Magazine reported in a 1985 story headlined Who Runs New York Now? Manhattan, inc., a glossy magazine”
― The Gods of New York: Egotists, Idealists, Opportunists, and the Birth of the Modern City: 1986-1990
― The Gods of New York: Egotists, Idealists, Opportunists, and the Birth of the Modern City: 1986-1990
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