Patricia

“I came to New York because I needed the city, and New York is for people who need cities, for those who cannot function outside of one. Open and permissive, insulating you with the sort of anonymity you can’t find in a small town or suburb, the city allows us to expand, experiment, and become our truest selves.”
― Jeremiah Moss, Vanishing New York: How a Great City Lost Its Soul

“A neighborhood is an emotional ecosystem, and when it is destroyed by gentrification, it's trauma.”
― Jeremiah Moss, Vanishing New York: How a Great City Lost Its Soul

“The scapegoats of the Giuliani era were people of color, the poor and working class, immigrants, feminists, homosexuals, socialists, bohemians. These people made New York the city it became in the twentieth century---open, progressive, diverse, and creative. They had also long been identified as enemies of the more conservative elites.”
― Jeremiah Moss, Vanishing New York: How a Great City Lost Its Soul

“New York would no longer be a free-spirit city. Instead, it would be a free-market city.”
― Jeremiah Moss, Vanishing New York: How a Great City Lost Its Soul