Vanishing New York
by Jeremiah Moss · 19 May 2017 · 479pp · 140,421 words
City 3 Ludlow Street and the Lower East Side 4 The Battle for New York’s Soul 5 The Bowery 6 The Neoliberal Turn 7 Little Italy 8 September 11 9 Greenwich Village 10 Bloomberg 11 The Gold Coast of Bleecker Street PART TWO 12 In the New New York 13 High Line 1: The Meatpacking District
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14 The New Gilded Age and the Enron Society 15 Chelsea 16 On the Sidewalk 17 High Line 2: West Chelsea to Hudson Yards 18 The Trouble with Tourists 19 Times Square 20
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west side of Manhattan, I will try to illustrate and analyze that psychic shift. A city’s personality, after all, comes from its people. 13 HIGH LINE 1: THE MEATPACKING DISTRICT Atlas meatpacking plant, Washington Street. Gregoire Alessandrini (www.nyc90s.com), 1994 IN 1997, NEW YORK MAGAZINE PUBLISHED A COVER STORY TITLED “The Wild West
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icon of neighborhood preservation, a beautifully designed public space, and not as the hyper-gentrification juggernaut it also happens to be. Today the High Line has several more critics, but the most colorfully caustic has got to be art critic Jerry Saltz. Writing in New York magazine in 2015, he gleefully ripped the park: Popularity
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not withstanding, not only do I feel oddly creeped out by its canned, fabricated naturalness, closed in by its conveyor-belt-narrow walkways, and irked at its romance with ruins, for me, the High Line is the harbinger of a
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, extra-busy, overdesigned, high-maintenance mannered playgrounds, curated experiences, and crowd-pleasing spectacles. Like most transplanted New Yorkers, I love the city, and the madness and chaos of its crowds. But the High Line has never felt to me to truly be a part of New York. It’s an undead limbo; protective custody for tourists who
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she should douse herself with High Line perfume. Bottled by Bond No. 9, the High Line fragrance combines notes of bergamot and rhubarb to create “the scent of wildflowers, green grasses . . and urban renewal.” 14 THE NEW GILDED AGE AND THE ENRON SOCIETY Graffiti on demolition plywood, Soho. Jeremiah Moss, 2014 NEW YORK CITY HAS LONG ATTRACTED THE WEALTHIEST
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if a luxury developer provided improvements to the High Line itself, such as stairways and public restrooms, that developer could build their condo towers even bigger. The High Line and the rezoning worked together, creating a recipe for what might be the biggest, fastest, most expensive development boom in New York City history. Snaking north, the park would
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the soil and prepping it for an explosion of unimaginable growth—and destruction. The opening of the High Line’s second section heralded a
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springs on stagecoaches,” he said. “The New York City streets have been good to me,” he continued. “The potholes have been good to me. Things were great until Bloomberg came into office. He decided to build his own fucking park and he called it the High Line. It’s for the city’s glamorous people
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designs, while others made headlines with retro-futuristic swoops and boomerangs, Space Age architectures conjuring sleek hybridizations of The Jetsons, the iPhone, and the latest Tom Cruise post-apoc flick. One broker told the Post in 2013 that the High Line area is “Dubai in New York. I’ve never seen such a landscape change so
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“lewd,” and there was no full nudity permitted. Still, the stroller brigade didn’t like the fair. The sentiment was mutual. Folsom East made posters that read, “Get your stroller out of my face. This is New York Fucking City.” The following year, the flood of tourists to the increasingly popular High Line had increased
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, so the eyes of children need not be shielded. Folsom East continues to keep a piece of New York’s unconventional soul alive. For now. From the Special West Chelsea District in the 20s, the High Line continues into its final section, taking a sharp left to wrap around the Hudson Yards at 30th
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to provide a link between the Meatpacking District below and the new neighborhood above, all with the High Line running through like a conveyor belt ferrying tourists and money up and down. Back in 2001, in Fortune magazine, Joshua David laid it all out. The High Line would make New York “more prosperous,” he wrote. “It can be a
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highlight its visitors, to “celebrate ourselves” and “showcase us.” So the intended view is not so much outward to the city, but inward, tourist facing tourist, a hall of living mirrors. Ross nicknamed it “the social climber.” For all this, the High Line gets the thanks. The New York City Economic Development Corporation published a
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study stating that before the High Line was redeveloped, “surrounding residential properties were valued 8 percent below the overall median for Manhattan.” Between 2003 and 2011, property values near the park increased 103 percent
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Gets Its Own High Line.” And the Times declared it a “Scenic and Serene Cousin of the High Line.” As we know, the High Line has proven to be a powerful catalyst for hyper-gentrification. It is being copied by competitive cities across the globe, and other neighborhoods in New York. Everyone wants a High Line—for the tourists and property values that follow
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New York City Like a Local
by Dk Eyewitness · 168pp · 33,675 words
when not in Paris. It was at NYU that Bryan began his journalism career. Now a teacher, he is also a devotee of the New York Road Runners and Front Runners and spends hours jogging Prospect Park, not to mention chasing down Chinese food. KWEKU ULZEN Having moved from Toronto to the Deep South
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, Brooklyn. He’s kept busy as a software engineer but finds time to volunteer with high school kids and political organizations. Kweku unwinds by playing basketball and hosting wine-fueled dinner parties. g Contents New York City WELCOME TO THE CITY New Yorkers are as diverse as the city itself – a patchwork of ages
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complain about the city like it’s their unruly problem child. Yet they still love it, because beyond the noise, dirt, and hardship, there’s something magical about New York City. And it’s this something that keeps visitors returning time after time. Of course, glimpsing the city’s iconic skyline is thrilling. But
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of the city’s character. NYC is also squat tenements crisscrossed by rusty fire escapes and school yards emblazoned with graffiti. It’s everything at once: history and high-rises, nature and urbanism, shabby and chic. New York City can be chaotic and overwhelming. But that’s where this book comes in. We know the places New
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people – is the most invigorating feeling. It’s like being at the center of the universe.” LAUREN PALEY, BRAND MANAGER AND TRAVEL WRITER g Contents New York City THROUGH THE YEAR There’s no off-season in New York – something is always afoot in the city. Think jolly parades in spring, alfresco shows in summer
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an enviable backdrop: the sparkling city skyline. LIVE EVENTS Parks host outdoor events in summertime, like show-stopping Broadway previews in Bryant Park and Shakespeare’s greatest hits in Central Park. ALFRESCO DINING New York becomes electric during the summer, with the energy buzzing around its outdoor dining scene. Patios overflow with groups
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unite to watch giant balloons float along the city streets for the Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade before they tuck into turkey and all the trimmings. WINTER FAIRY TALE IN NEW YORK The movies don’t lie: nowhere does Christmas like the Big Apple. Lights are draped everywhere, department stores compete for attention
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ask you to leave once the meal is over (don’t be offended). DRINK Coffee fuels New York, and working cafés are a huge part of daily life. That said, more and more coffee shops are going Wi-Fi- and laptop-free so, if you’re hoping to connect to the internet, check with a
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city’s parks. Sadly, littering is an issue in the city so avoid adding to the problem and take your garbage with you. There’s also a large population of people experiencing homelessnes in New York City, so it’s not uncommon to be approached for food in outdoor spaces. Keep in mind
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Lennon memorial. Simply download the free what3words app, type a what3words address into the search bar, and you’ll know exactly where to go. CITYMAPPER Your journey planner More comprehensive and easier to use than New York’s official public transportation app (MyMTA), Citymapper offers live info on the best routes from A to
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B, using the subway, buses, bikes, taxis, and more. There’s real-time info on departures and delays, too. g Contents New York City NEIGHBORHOODS New York City is a vast mosaic of neighborhoods, each patch with its own character and community. Here we take a look at some of our favorites. Alphabet
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” is a study in contrasts: Hasidic Jews live side-by-side with hipsters, trendy roasteries occupy tattered warehouses, and old-world dance halls have been transformed into trendy clubs. {map 4} g Contents New York City ON THE MAP Whether you’re looking for your new favorite spot or want to check out
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serves up delicious international fare alongside stunning, panoramic views of Lower Manhattan. The dining space is elegant, the food delicious, and the staff are welcoming, but the star attraction here is New York City itself. g Special Occasion g Contents Google Map ALTA Map 1; 64 West 10th Street, Greenwich Village; ///dating.hops
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church. Join local women on Saturday mornings to make varenyky (pierogies). g EAT g Contents Sweet Treats New York sure does have a sweet tooth. The city is jam-packed with bakeries, ice-cream parlors, and cheesecake outlets galore – so go on, treat yourself. g EAT g Contents Sweet Treats LEVAIN BAKERY MORGENSTERN
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Coffee Shops Take a Tour: An evening of cocktails in the East Village g DRINK g Contents Secret Speakeasies New York’s underground speakeasy scene exploded during Prohibition, with revelers cutting loose to jazz and moonshine. Today hidden bars are throwbacks to these times. You’ve just got to find your way inside
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Google Map BROOKLYN BREWERY Map 4; 79 North 11th Street, Williamsburg, Brooklyn; ///member.able.translated; www.brooklynbrewery.com This is a New York City institution, exporting beer to 30 US states and more than 30 countries. Brooklyn Lager might be the favorite, but unique formulations are inspired by international flavors, like East IPA
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Map SUNNY’S BAR Map 5; 253 Conover Street, Red Hook, Brooklyn; ///brand.looks.cove; www.sunnysredhook.com Sunny’s is one of a kind and a true New York treasure. Yes, Brooklyn is famously gentrifying, but this old-school saloon has held on to its charm, with inimitable live bluegrass
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the scent past the industrial roasting machinery to the main coffee shop, which is a lovely airy space (downright huge by New York standards) with sun dripping down from an enormous skylight and a soaring vertical garden covering the back wall. This Williamsburg store is an eternally crowded hipster paradise, with home workers
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’mores. It’s perfect for a rainy Saturday when you want to feel like you’re in a New York-based sitcom.” RENNA GOTTLIEB, TEACHER AND COFFEE ADDICT g Coffee Shops g Contents Google Map COFFEE PROJECT NY Map 2; 239 East 5th Street, East Village; ///matter.looked.ahead; www.coffeeprojectny.
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store’s secondhand collection of jazz, funk, house, and hip-hop, and love to chat all things music with the friendly staff. » Don’t leave without taking a look at the store’s fading Polaroids. You’ll spot the likes of DJ Premier and New York legend DJ Tony Touch. Try it! BECOME A DJ
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.cargo.neat; www.krewe.com New Orleans-based luxury brand Krewe has a unique collection of eyewear, available at its one New York brick-and-mortar store. Splurge on well-crafted, delicate sunglasses and rest assured that few others will be sporting these cool, Southern-style frames. A bonus fact for pop-culture buffs
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of their shared history. Visit these fascinating museums to learn about this place and its people, past and present. g ARTS & CULTURE g Contents City History NEW YORK TRANSIT MUSEUM TENEMENT MUSEUM THE NEW-YORK HISTORICAL SOCIETY MUSEUM OF THE CITY OF NEW YORK CENTER FOR BROOKLYN HISTORY MUSEUM OF RECLAIMED URBAN SPACE THE CITY RELIQUARY MUSEUM 9
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past. » Don’t leave without parting with your paycheck in the gift shop, which has an incredible collection of books and classy NYC souvenirs. g City History g Contents Google Map THE NEW-YORK HISTORICAL SOCIETY Map 3; 170 Central Park West, Upper West Side; ///charm.design.regime; www.nyhistory.org The crowd
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MUSEUM Map 5; 180 Greenwich Street, Financial District; ///slower.deal.spot; www.911memorial.org You can’t talk about the history of New York and not mention 9/11. The event had a seismic impact on the city and its effects still ripple today. This moving museum commemorates those who died in the tragedy
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Dinner Party, a feminist work depicting 39 place settings that each represents a woman of note (think Sojourner Truth and Queen Elizabeth I). Arts & Culture | Favorite Museums We’ve all seen Gangs of New York and The Godfather, but when it comes to the genuine history of organized crime in NYC, the Museum of
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like its founder. It stages brave, bold shows that push the boundaries, so it follows that radicals, students, and general theater fanatics are regulars here. g Off-Broadway g Contents Google Map NEW YORK THEATRE WORKSHOP Map 2; 79 East 4th Street, East Village; ///tamed.worth.punchy; www.nytw.org Jonathan Larson, Caryl
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RESEARCH IN BLACK CULTURE g NIGHTLIFE g Contents Live Music People from all walks of life gather in New York’s live music venues, all looking to be carried away by the city’s musicians. And with everything from jazz to rock ’n’ roll, there’s a show for every night of the
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g OUTDOORS g Contents Green Spaces New York’s parks aren’t just open spaces. They’re gathering spots, birthday venues, date locales, and much-needed respites from the city’s grid of steel, brick, and concrete. g OUTDOORS g Contents Green Spaces WASHINGTON SQUARE PARK PROSPECT PARK THE HIGH LINE ST. NICHOLAS PARK CENTRAL PARK
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studio Bend + Bloom in summer. g Green Spaces g Contents Google Map THE HIGH LINE Map 1; entrance via 30th Street and 11th Avenue, Hudson Yards; ///wipe.spray.goods; www.thehighline.org Nowhere better symbolizes New York’s ingenuity than the High Line. On what was once an elevated train track set for demolition, the urban park
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best city views all to yourself. g Green Spaces g Contents Google Map BRYANT PARK Map 3; entrance via Sixth Avenue and West 42nd Street, Midtown; ///turned.bunk.guilty; www.bryantpark.org Tucked behind New York Public Library is lovely Bryant Park, where freelancers take advantage of the park’s free Wi-Fi
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something special. This iconic arena is never short on spectacle, with rocket-launcher-style T-shirt cannons and a “celebrity row” reserved for A-list stars. Tickets are hard to find, but singing “Go, New York, Go!” at the top of your lungs with 20,000 vociferous locals? Priceless. » Don’t leave without
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garden, which is thought of as the city’s first community garden. In the 1970s, New York resident Liz Christy and a group of “Green Guerillas” banded together to clean up and revitalize a vacant lot with herbaceous plants and wildflowers. Today, dedicated volunteers carry on the good work so New Yorkers can continue to
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half-day of garden volunteering (11am–3pm). Gardening experience isn’t necessary but be prepared to get your hands dirty. g OUTDOORS g Contents Streets and Alleys New York City moves at a brisk pace, but there are some seriously idyllic alleys that deserve more of a leisurely meander. Forget your itinerary
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on Ninth Avenue, where fashionistas and that-model-you-know-from-TV can be spotted clip-clopping down the street. It feels like a vestige of old New York, especially if you carry on to Gansevoort Street, with its cobblestones. This is also a great place to start the High Line, where the magic continues
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Art Center, a 30-minute shuttle from the town’s center, for arty inspiration. It’s an open-air sculpture museum and the artworks are striking against the backdrop of the New York county countryside. Once you’ve had your fill of art, head back to Beacon’s cute Main Street, lined with
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Penn Station, you can join the Ramapo-Dunderberg trail, which passes through Harriman State Park. New York parents, their kids and own parents in tow, love hiking the park’s stunning landscape, stopping to enjoy its vast lakes and point out birdlife. Sound good? You can also stay at a lean-to or camp
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The decommissioned Jackie Kennedy Onassis Reservoir was named after the former president’s wife for her contributions to the city. g Contents New York City DIRECTORY With a little research and preparation, this city will feel like a home away from home. Check out these websites to ensure a healthy, safe stay in
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New York City. SAFE SPACES New York City is diverse and inclusive, but should you feel uneasy at any point or want to find your community, there are spaces catering to different genders, sexualities
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Color. www.blackownedbrooklyn.com A curated guide to Brooklyn’s Black-owned businesses. www.gaycenter.org A space for New York City’s LGBTQ+ community to meet and connect. www.sixthstreetcenter.org Community center and youth program space in the Alphabet City neighborhood. HEALTH Health care in America isn’t free, so it’s
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few open 24/7. www.institute.org An affordable community health center organization, featuring two free clinics for the uninsured. www.nyp.org New York-Presbyterian, a health care and hospital network with locations in the city. www.plannedparenthood.org Nonprofit organization providing sexual health care for all. www.health.ny.gov Resource
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detailing hospitals and their services throughout the state. TRAVEL SAFETY ADVICE Before you travel – and while you’re here – always keep tabs on the latest regulations in New York City, and the US. www.cdc.gov National public health institute offering disease prevention
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and guidance. www.coronavirus.health.ny.gov COVID-19 news and advice from New York State. www1.nyc.gov New York Police Department website, including precinct
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, with details on how to retrieve lost property. www.safehorizon.org Nonprofit helping survivors of domestic abuse, sexual assault, and other crimes. www.travel.state.gov Latest travel safety information. ACCESSIBILITY New York City is steadily becoming more accessible, with the goal of adding elevators to all subway stations by 2034. These resources
On Bicycles: A 200-Year History of Cycling in New York City
by Evan Friss · 6 May 2019 · 314pp · 85,637 words
in New York City / Evan Friss. Description: New York : Columbia University Press, [2019] | Includes bibliographical references and index. Identifiers: LCCN 2018045873 (print) | LCCN 2018049808 (ebook) | ISBN 9780231182560 (cloth : alk. paper) Subjects: LCSH: Cycling—Social aspects—New York (State)—New York. | Cycling—United States—History. | Cycling—New York (State)—New York—History. | Urban transportation—New York (State)—New York. | Bicycle commuting—New York (State)—New York—History. | Bicycle sharing programs—New York (State)—New York—History
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. | Cycling—Government policy—New York (State)—New York. Classification: LCC GV1045.5
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solve a big population’s big problems. Thus, although it will occasionally journey beyond the five boroughs, the book is set in New York and New York alone.12 Necessarily, bicycles—and their advocates and foes—stand at the center of this narrative. Even in the cycling heydays, many a New Yorker never rode a bicycle or
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cyclists from midtown Manhattan to Portchester. His other maps illustrated preferred routes to Poughkeepsie and Tarrytown. League of American Wheelmen, Fifty Miles Around New York: A Book of Maps and Descriptions of the Best Roads, Streets and Routes for Cyclists and Horsemen (New York: New York State Division of the League of American Wheelmen, 1896) One favorite club activity was
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Davis, California, are often cited as America’s first. Although people forget about the on-street bike lanes (the asphalt ribbons) in 1890s New York, it is true that New York and almost every other American city had not seen any kind of bike lanes since the nineteenth century. Even off-road bicycle paths, like
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PlaNYC’s goals was Rohit (Rit) Aggarwala, a smart, affable historian by training, who wrote his dissertation about the rivalry between New York and Philadelphia in the Early Republic. New York had won, and Aggarwala, “the brains behind PlaNYC,” was charged with making sure it won again in the twenty-first century.13 PlaNYC envisioned the
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of the NYC DOT, September 14, 2011 Still, it was not clear that bikesharing could work in New York. This was America, not Europe. And Denver, Minneapolis, and Washington, DC, had many fewer people (and taxicabs) than New York. Criticism and protests stirred. The city comptroller warned about lawsuits from an expected increase in crashes. A restauranteur in
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number of rails-to-trails projects across the country where defunct transportation corridors have morphed into inviting spaces for walkers, hikers, and cyclists. Bicycles are, however, not invited to tour New York’s High Line. Those arriving by Citi Bike have to dock their wheels before climbing a set of stairs. Despite calls for one
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29, 1887. 18. Tiffany & Co. Engagement Books, Tiffany & Co. Archives; Map of Asphalt and Macadam Roads in League of American Wheelmen, Fifty Miles Around New York: A Book of Maps and Descriptions of the Best Roads, Streets and Routes for Cyclists and Horsemen (New York: New York State Division of the League of American Wheelmen, 1896); Tiffany & Co. Archives, “Tiffany
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. General Ordinances of the City of New York under the Greater New York Charter (New York: Banks Law Publishing Co., 1902), 128–30; Friss, The Cycling City, 71–77. Though there were cars in New York in the 1890s, they were rare. For more on the early period of motoring in cities and New York in particular, see Clay McShane,
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Down the Asphalt Path: The Automobile and the American City (New York: Columbia University Press, 1995); Mike Wallace, Greater Gotham: A
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History of New York City from 1898 to 1919 (New York: Oxford University Press, 2017), 240–50. 44. Hyde diaries,
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. Receipt of LAW Dues, 4 April 1896, in Newspaper Clippings Related to Cycling and Cycling Clubs, New-York Historical Society, New York; Staten Island Bicycle Store to Isaac B. Potter, 1 August 1895, in Newspaper Clippings Related to Cycling and Cycling Clubs, New-York Historical Society, New York; Isaac B. Potter to Miss V. M. E. Ward, 10 August
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Clippings Related to Cycling and Cycling Clubs, New-York Historical Society, New York; Abbott Bassett to M.V.E. Ward, 25 April 1895, in Newspaper Clippings Related to Cycling and Cycling Clubs, New-York Historical Society, New York; Isaac Potter to M.V.E. Ward, undated, in Newspaper Clippings Related to Cycling and Cycling Clubs, New-York Historical Society, New York. For an interesting account
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Isaac B. Potter, 18 October 1895, in Newspaper Clippings Related to Cycling and Cycling Clubs, New-York Historical Society, New York. 62. Staten Island Bicycle Store to Isaac B. Potter, 18 October 1895, in Newspaper Clippings Related to Cycling and Cycling Clubs, New-York Historical Society, New York; Receipt, 1 December 1895, Box 5, Folder 3, Ward Family Papers,
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Bicycling, 68, 78–79, 104. 76. “Wheels in House Decorations,” Cincinnati Enquirer, November 18, 1896, in Newspaper Clippings Related to Cycling and Cycling Clubs, New-York Historical Society, New York. 77. “Fair Ladies and the Wheel,” New York Herald, May 3, 1896. See also “Bicycling for Ladies,” Literary News, July 1896, 200 (reprinted from Springfield Republican); “The Art
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Scissors, 236–50, which makes clear that scrapbooks are a unique genre of writing, editing, and archiving. 81. Newspaper Clippings Related to Cycling and Cycling Clubs, New-York Historical Society, New York. 82. Annual Report and List of Members of the New-York Historical Society (New York: New-York Historical Society, 1938); Maxine Friedman, “Shall We Go For a Ride? A Conversation about
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Planning, Path Dependence, and Cycling in Stockholm,” in Cycling and Recycling: Histories of Sustainable Practices, ed. Ruth Oldenziel and Helmuth Trischler (New York: Berghahn Books, 2016), 101–21. 3. Caro, The Power Broker, 25–37; New York Bicycle Directory for 1896 (New York: New York Bicycle Directory Publishing Co., 1896); New York State Division LAW, Fifty Miles Around Brooklyn (New York: New York State Division of the
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; Harry Taylor, memorandum, 2 February 1939. 64. “Trunk Line Travel Rose Here in 1936,” New York Times, April 5, 1937; Port of New York Authority and Triborough Bridge and Tunnel Authority, Joint Study of Arterial Facilities: New York-New Jersey Metropolitan Area (New York, 1955), 13–16; Harry Taylor, memorandum, 2 February 1939. 65. Longhurst, Bike Battles, 160. “Dr.
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Lane Likely for a Major City Street,” New York Times, September 17, 1970; New York City Transportation Administration, Bicycles in New York City (New York: Office of Comprehensive Planning of the New York City Transportation Administration, 1973), 26. 9. New York City Transportation Administration, Bicycles in New York City, 41–43, appendix C. For more on bike policy and infrastructure in Davis, California, see Bruce
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26, 1971, Proceedings of the Council of the City of New York, Box 50377, 478, LaGuardia and Wagner Archives, New York; “Bicyclists Denied a Push by Mayor,” New York Times, September 26, 1971. 11. The bikeway program was actually already under way. New York City Transportation Administration, Bicycles in New York City, 18–19. For more on the history of
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. 12. Robert K. Herzfelder to Thomas Cuite, 25 October 1971, Box 50610, Records of The Council of the City of New York, La Guardia and Wagner Archives, New York. 13. New York City Transportation Administration, Bicycles in New York City, 1–2; Bruce Epperson, “Historical Statistics of the American Bicycle Industry, 1878–2013. Version 1.0” (unpublished spreadsheet,
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15. Trillin, “U.S. Journal: Manhattan Fun’s Over,” 120–27. 16. New York City Transportation Administration, Bicycles in New York City, 7; Trillin, “U.S. Journal”; Rafael Macia, The New York Bicycler (New York: Simon and Schuster, 1972), 60–64. 17. Rivvy Neshama, “Transportation Alternatives: Memories and Organizational History,” (unpublished manuscript, 2013), Microsoft Word file; Transportation Alternatives, 2012–2013
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Thomas J. Cuite, 18 March 1974, Box 417, Records of The Council of the City of New York, La Guardia and Wagner Archives, New York. 20. New York City Transportation Administration, Bicycles in New York City, 8. 21. New York City Transportation Administration, Bicycles in New York City, 47. Especially important in shaping the debate about where cyclists belonged on city streets was
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author, February 2018. 32. New York City Department of Transportation, Bicycle Safety Education Program Final Report (New York: New York City Department of Transportation, 1983), 13. 33. “Bicycling is Double Level Before Strike,” New York Times, May 4, 1980; New York City Department of Transportation and Police Department, Improving Bicycle Safety in New York City (New York: New York City Department of Transportation and Police Department, 1980), 1
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–5, appendix. 34. New York City Department of Transportation, Bicycle
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41096, Box 209, Folder 8, Edward Koch Papers, Departmental Correspondence, Municipal Archives, New York. 65. Carol Greitzer to Paul Dalnoky, 4 February 1983, Box 51215, Records of The Council of the City of New York, La Guardia and Wagner Archives, New York; “New York Day by Day,” New York Times, January 18, 1983; Larry Reilly to Roger Herz, 21 June 1984
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, Reel 41096, Box 209, Folder 8, Edward Koch Papers, Municipal Archives, New York; Bicycle Transportation Action, memorandum, 26 June 1984, Reel 41096,
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; Bicycles, I.D., Int. No. 679-A, Box 051424, Folder 1, Records of the Council of the City of New York, La Guardia and Wagner Archives, New York; No. 47, Local Laws of the City of New York, 1984. 66. Jack Lusk, memorandum, 19 July 1985, Reel 41028, Box 71, Folder 6, Edward Koch Papers, Departmental
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30, 2006, http://www.streetfilms.org/cab-in-a-crosswalk/; Petersen, “Whose Streets?” 179, 185. 27. New York City Department of Transportation, Sustainable Streets: 2013 and Beyond (New York: New York City Department of Transportation, 2013), 130. 28. Sadik-Khan and Solomonow, Streetfight, 154–55. For a beautifully illustrated, general history of bicycle planning in twentieth-century Europe
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, 166 Newark, NJ, 22, 37 New York Amsterdam News, 122, 141 New York Bicycle Club, 27 New York Chamber of Commerce, 140 New York City Department of Parks (Department of Public Parks), 26, 29–30, 31, 82, 85, 88, 209n24 New York City Department of Public Works, 102 New York City Department of Transportation (DOT): and bike infrastructure, 123, 143, 157–59
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163, 166, 168; leadership of, 117, 156, 164; and messengers, 131–32; and perception of bicycles, 2, 113; and regulating cycling, 118–19, 142; and safety, 134. See also Sadik-Khan, Janette New York City Housing Authority (NYCHA), 96 New York City Transportation Administration. See New York City Department of Transportation New York Cycle Club, 112, 114, 119 New Yorker, 3–4
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, 91, 96, 112, 166, 174 New York Herald, 70 New-York Historical Society, 72 New York Magazine, 128, 163, 167, 177, 227n38 New York Post, 3, 132, 140 New York Recorder
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, 70 New York Times: and bike lanes,
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Pocket New York City Travel Guide
by Lonely Planet · 27 Sep 2012
night, enjoy mind–blowing performances in venues ranging from Broadway theaters to back-alley comedy joints, and shop ’til you drop among the veritable UN of international brands and unique boutiques. New York is truly one helluva town. New York City Top Sights Central Park (Click here) One of the world’s most renowned green
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enviable collection of 20th-century art and welcomes exhibits from all over the world. Right: The Shapes of Space, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, April 14–September 5, 2007. ©The Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation, New York. Used with permission. JEAN-PIERRE LESCOURRET/LONELY PLANET IMAGES © New York City Top Sights The High Line (Click here) Refurbished rail tracks
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have been transformed into grassy catwalks in the sky. It’s the paradigm of urban renewal gone right, enjoying its status as one of the city’s most beloved public spaces. ALAN COPSON/CORBIS © New York City Top Sights Times
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to the refurbished Chelsea Market (Click here) where you can choose from a colorful assortment of lunchtime nibbles. Grab a gelato to go and climb up to The High Line (Click here) for a stroll amid green stretching over the gridiron. Spend the latter half of the afternoon wandering among the Chelsea Galleries
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Music (Click here) to see what’s on. If you’re diggin’ Brooklyn’s (hipster, ahem) vibe, stick around for the evening and check out Williamsburg, New York’s of-the-moment Bohemia. Do dinner at Dressler (Click here), then the neighborhood’s night scene is yours for the taking – try Commodore
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your final destination. Getting Around Once you’ve arrived in NYC, getting around is fairly easy. The 660-mile subway system is cheap and (reasonably) efficient. The sidewalks of New York, however, are the real stars in the transportation scheme – this city is made for walking. Subway The subway system is inexpensive,
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can very difficult to grab a taxi in inclement weather. Ferry There are hop-on-hop-off services and free rides to Staten Island. Check out New York Waterway ( 800-533-3779; www.nywaterway.com) and New York Water Taxi ( 212-742-1969; www.nywatertaxi.com; hop-on-hop-off service 1 day $26). For
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before settling into quieter nights. Tribeca, however, continues to hum well after dark with its cache of restaurants and lounges. Top Sights New York Harbor (Click here) World Trade Center Site (Click here) Best of New York City Fine Dining Locanda Verde (Click here) Les Halles (Click here) Drinking Brandy Library (Click here) Weather
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was created by commissioned sculptor Frédéric-Auguste Bartholdi. The artist spent most of 20 years turning his dream – to create the hollow monument and mount it in the New York Harbor – into reality. Bartholdi’s work on the statue was delayed by structural challenges – a problem resolved by the metal framework mastery
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Romanesque facade, a sight no longer accessible to the public due to security concerns. Feel free to gawk outside the building, protected by barricades and the hawk-eyed New York Police Department (NYPD). (The online shop has souvenirs like a hooded NYSE sweatshirt, as if you’d actually been inside.) (NYSE; www
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Sat, 7am-4pm Sun; A/C, J/Z, 2/3, 4/5 to Fulton St) 8 Bowling Green Park Offline map Google map New York’s oldest – and possibly tiniest – public park is purportedly the spot where Dutch settler Peter Minuit paid Native Americans the equivalent of $24 to purchase Manhattan Island
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Google map Head to this unisex boutique for cognoscenti labels like Sweden’s Our Legacy, Canada’s Dace and New York’s very own Steven Alan. The look is chic, silhouetted and fun, with whimsical frocks, vintage-inspired shirts, woolen ties and detailed denim in the mix. Accessories include hard-to-find colognes, bags, jewelry
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1809–15 Gothic Revival church designed by Joseph-François Mangin. In its heyday, the church was the seat of religious life for the archdiocese of New York, and an important community center for new, mainly Irish, immigrants. Its ancient cemetery out the back is a beautiful respite in the midst of city chaos
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6pm Wed-Sun, closed 3-3:30pm; N/R/W to Prince St) Understand Chinatown’s Residents The history of Chinese immigrants in New York City is long and tumultuous. The first Chinese people to arrive in America came to work on the Central Pacific Railroad under difficult conditions. Others were lured
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Tompkins Square Park Park Offline map Google map The 10.5-acre Tompkins Sq Park honors Daniel Tompkins, who served as governor of New York from 1807 to 1817 (and as the nation’s vice president after that, under James Monroe). It’s like a friendly town square for locals, who gather
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offering endless strolling fodder. The Meatpacking District – once filled with slaughterhouses and now brimming with sleek boutiques and roaring nightclubs – leads to Chelsea, stocked with galleries and gay-friendly haunts. Top Sights The High Line (Click here) Local Life Chelsea Galleries (Click here) Best of New York City Drinking Little Branch (Click here) Bathtub Gin (Click here
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here). For a local’s day in Chelsea, Click here. Greenwich Village, Chelsea & the Meatpacking District Top Sights The High Line C3 Sights 1 Washington Square Park F4 2 Chelsea Market C3 3 New York University G4 4 Astor Place G4 5 Pier 45 C5 6 Grace Church G4 7 Chelsea Art Museum B2
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& Company E4 59 The Bathroom E4 60 Jeffrey New York C3 Greenwich Letterpress (see 34) 61 Marc by Marc Jacobs D4 62 Stella McCartney C3 63 Nasty Pig D2 64 Forbidden Planet G3 65 Abracadabra F2 66 192 Books C2 Top Sights The High Line www.thehighline.org Gansevoort St 7am-7pm L, A
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s most beloved urban renewal project opened with much ado, and it’s been one of New York’s star attractions ever since. LOGAN MOCK-BUNTING/CORBIS © Don’t Miss Public Art In addition to being a haven of hovering green, The High Line is also an informal art space featuring a variety of installations
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8th St-NYU) 4 Astor Place Square Offline map Google map This square is named after the Astor family, who built an early New York fortune on beaver pelts and lived on Colonnade Row, just south of the square. Originally Astor Pl was the home of the Astor Opera House (now gone),
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Pier, this is an 850ft-long finger of concrete, spiffily renovated with a grass lawn, flowerbeds, an outdoor cafe, tented shade shelters and a stop for the New York Water Taxi. It’s a magnet for downtowners of all stripes, from local families with toddlers in daylight to mobs of young gays
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5-week course $270; 1 to Houston St) Local Life Robert Hammond on The High Line Co-founder and executive director of Friends of The High Line Robert Hammond shares his High Line (Click here) highlights: ‘What I love most about The High Line are its hidden moments, like at the Tenth Ave cut-out near 17th St, most
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Longacre Sq, an unremarkable intersection far from the city’s commercial epicenter of Lower Manhattan. This changed with a deal between subway pioneer August Belmont and New York Times publisher Adolph Ochs. Heading construction of the city’s first subway line (from Lower Manhattan to the Upper West Side
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face extinction again when its major ballet companies departed for the Lincoln Center. Today, it hosts dance troupes including the Alvin Ailey and American Dance Theater, theater productions, and the New York Flamenco Festival in February or March. ( 212-581-1212; www.nycitycenter.org; 131 W 55th St btwn Sixth & Seventh Aves; N/
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WaMu Theater – hosts big-arena performers, from Kanye West to Madonna. It’s also a sports arena, with New York Knicks, New York Liberty and New York Rangers games, as well as boxing matches and events like the Annual Westminster Kennel Club Dog Show. (www.thegarden.com; Seventh Ave btwn 31st & 33rd Sts; 1/2/3 to
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structure was initially derided by some critics, but the swishing spirals of white quickly became a beloved architectural icon, featuring on countless postcards, TV programs and films. NEW YORK. USED WITH PERMISSION. GAVIN GOUGH/LONELY PLANET IMAGES © Don’t Miss Permanent Collection Galleries Although the Museum of Modern Art has garnered a reputation
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& Sun-Wed, to 7pm Sat), on the 3rd floor, which offers sparkling views of Central Park and excellent coffee and light snacks. Local Life Road Runners The long-time club and organizer of the New York City Marathon, New York Road Runners Club (Offline map; www.nyrrc.org; 9 E 89th St btwn Madison & Fifth Aves
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Sun; 4/5/6 to 86th St) 6 Temple Emanu-El Synagogue Offline map Google map Founded in 1845 as the first Reform synagogue in New York and completed in 1929, this temple is now one of the largest Jewish houses of worship in the world. An imposing Romanesque structure, it is more
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) 32 Crawford Doyle Booksellers Books Offline map Google map This genteel Upper East Side book shop invites browsing, with stacks devoted to art, literature and the history of New York – not to mention plenty of first editions. A wonderful place to while away a chilly afternoon. (1082 Madison Ave btwn 81st & 82nd
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arrangement of gleaming Modernist temples contains some of Manhattan’s most important performance spaces: Avery Fisher Hall (home to the New York Philharmonic), David H Koch Theater (site of the New York City ballet) and the iconic Metropolitan Opera House, whose interior walls are dressed with brightly saturated murals by painter Marc Chagall. Various other
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Festival. (www.kaufman-center.org/mch; 129 W 67th St btwn Amsterdam Ave & Broadway; admission varies; 1 to 66th St-Lincoln Center) American Ballet Theatre and New York City Ballet dancers in Christopher Wheeldon's Commedia, Morphoses JULIE LEMBERGER/CORBIS © 34 Smoke Jazz Offline map Google map This swank but laid-back lounge
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observation deck. Bank of America Tower The Bank of America Tower is New York City’s third-tallest building and – perhaps surprisingly – one of the most ecofriendly. New York Public Library At the corner of 42nd St and Fifth Ave stands the stately New York Public Library (Click here), guarded by a pair of regal lions called
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Met Sally (1989). Wollman Skating Rink (Click here) in Central Park RICHARD I'ANSON/LONELY PLANET IMAGES © Best Fine Dining Tasting trends in New York City come and go, but there’s one thing that will forever remain certain: fine dining never goes out of style. Sure, the culture of haute eats
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gun pro. (Click here) Dovetail Simplicity is key – vegetarians unite on Mondays for a divine tasting menu. (Click here) Le Bernardin Triple Michelin-star earner and New York’s holy grail of fine dining. (Click here) Pasta for sale in Eataly JAMES LEYNSE/CORBIS © Best Local Eats From inspired iterations of world cuisine
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opentable.com). Best for Old-School NYC Katz’s Delicatessen Classic pastrami on rye is the name of the game at this New York stalwart and tourist haven. (Click here) Zabar’s New York Jewish charm fills the knish-tinged air on the Upper West Side. (Click here) William Greenberg Desserts Sweet treats à la
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meant to be used as a mooring mast for dirigibles – an idea that made for good publicity, but proved to be impractical and unfeasible. A Starchitect’s Canvas New York City’s heterogenous landscape lends itself well to the dabbling sketching pencils of some of the world’s leading architectural personalities, or ‘
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kinds of sexy (even if the galleries have a detention-center vibe).(Click here) Flatiron Building TETRA IMAGES/GETTY© Best Museums New York City is America’s culture capital and sports dozens upon dozens of museums, showcasing an incredible spectrum of exhibits. You’ll find everything from big-ticket attractions known throughout
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wee but it won’t keep you from busting a move – especially on weekends. (Click here) JERRITT CLARK/WIREIMAGE/GETTY © Best Parks New York’s parks, gardens and squares are the city’s backyards. The larger parks are ideal for strolling or simply soaking up the sunshine, with plenty of seating as
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The city’s most famous park has more than 800 acres of rolling meadows and boulder-topped hillocks. (Click here) The High Line A thin stripe of green that unfurls up the western slice of downtown. (Click here) Gramercy Park New York exclusivity at its finest: it’s cut off from the public by wrought
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three-hour tours that help you eat your way through the city. Prepare thyself for a moving feast of fresh Italian pasta, sushi, global cheeses and real New York pizza. Bike the Big Apple ( 877-865-0078; www.bikethebigapple.com; tours incl bike & helmet $70-80) Recommended by NYC & Company, this operator
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after 7pm. (Click here) Central Park New York’s giant backyard is yours for the taking, with acre after acre of tree-lined bliss. Go for a jog, relax on the lawn or throw bread crumbs at the ducks in the pond. (Click here) The High Line The city’s proudest achievement in urban
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renewal in the last decade, this catwalk of parkland is great for a stroll and some skyline ogling. (Click here) New York Public Library The grand, beaux arts gem (aka the Stephen A Schwarzman
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/newyork) Rooms at the luxurious, skyscraping Setai are more akin to suites. Understatedly chic, all feature neutral hues, handsome wood paneling, Duxiana mattresses and Nespresso machines. Chatwal New York (www.thechatwalny.com) A restored art deco jewel in the Theater District, the Chatwal is as atmospheric as it is historic. Arriving in
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bit of a rip-off. NJ Transit runs rail service (with an AirTrain connection) between Newark and New York’s Penn Station for $12.50 each way. The trip uses a commuter train, takes 25 minutes and runs every 20 or 30 minutes from 4:20am to about 1:40am. When travelling to the
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card will be accepted in other states or countries. › If your cards are lost or stolen, contact the company immediately. Changing Money Banks and moneychangers, found all over New York City (including all three major airports), will give you US currency based on the current exchange rate. Money-Saving Tips › Browse our
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’s Office for People with Disabilities ( 212-788-2830; 9am-5pm Mon-Fri), which will send you a free copy of its Access New York guide if you call and request it. Another excellent resource is the Society for Accessible Travel & Hospitality (SATH; 212-447-7284; www.sath.org; 347 Fifth Ave
The Rough Guide to New York City
by Rough Guides · 21 May 2018
Staten Island Listings21. Accommodation 22. Eating 23. Drinking 24. Nightlife 25. Performing arts and film 26. LGBT New York 27. Commercial galleries 28. Shopping 29. Sports and outdoor activities 30. Parades, festivals and events 31. Kids’ New York ContextsHistory Books New York on film Maps and small print How to use this Rough Guide ebook This Rough Guide is one
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its history in the thought-provoking Tenement Museum. The East and West villages are known for their gorgeous, tree-lined streets, bohemian history and their hip bars, restaurants and shops. Chelsea has established gay venues, a happening gallery scene and outdoor gems in the High Line and Hudson River Park developments; just below it, the Meatpacking
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; you might get cheaper rates by shopping around for indirect flights via Qatar (Qatar Airways; qatarairways.com), Dubai (Emirates; emirates.com), or Amsterdam and London. Trains New York is connected to the rest of the continent by several Amtrak train lines (800 872 7245, amtrak.com). The most frequent services are along
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the Boston–Washington, DC corridor; there is also one daily train between Montréal and New York (10hr 30min). Fares from Boston and DC start at around $140 round-trip, or $250 for the Acela Express, which saves 30–35 minutes on either route. Fares
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cheap options (with the oldest buses) include Lucky Star, which runs nonstop between the Chinatowns of Boston and New York for $25 each way. Agents and operators Amtrak Vacations US 800 654 5748, amtrakvacations.com. Rail, accommodation and sightseeing packages. Contiki US 888 266 8454, contiki.com. 18-to-35-year-olds-only tour
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often the same day (there’s usually an $18–25 minimum though). Some budget hotels, YMCAs and hostels also have coin-operated washers and dryers. Living and working in New York It’s not easy to live and work in New York, even for US residents. For anyone looking for short-term work, the typical urban employment options
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are a variety of public restrooms scattered around the city, usually free (see m3.mappler.net/nyrestroom). Travellers with disabilities In terms of sightseeing and entertainment, most New York ferries or cruise boats are accessible, as are Broadway theatres; top sights such as American Museum of Natural History, MoMA, Lincoln Center, 9
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immigrants. The museum’s American Family Immigration History Center (same times as museum) holds a database of over 22 million immigrants who passed through New York between 1892 and 1924. Outside, the names of over 700,000 of these immigrants are engraved in copper; while the “Wall of Honor” is always accepting
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) • 212 825 3045, nps.gov/gois and govisland.com “Nowhere in New York is more pastoral,” wrote travel writer Jan Morris of Governors Island, a 172-acre tract of land across from Brooklyn with unobstructed views of the Financial District and New York Harbor. With its village greens and colonial architecture reminiscent of a New England
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ceiling mosaics in the main hall by muralist William DeLeftwich Dodge, featuring the signs of the zodiac. From here, follow the signs to the New York Municipal Library and Archives, where a room contains the “Windows on the Archives” exhibit, a small collection of quirky historic artefacts such as the 1957 Ebbets
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, The Market Line (completion expected 2021–24). There’s also the Lowline (thelowline.org), a historic trolley terminal converted to a spectacular High Line-style park, albeit underground and lit by solar technology (opening very optimistically slated for 2021). To the south, the neighbourhood dubbed Two Bridges (roughly the area along the
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their Most Wanted List. While the group was responsible for several bombings in the 1970s, the loss of life was studiously avoided – though buildings in New York and Washington, DC, were damaged, the group’s most notorious exploit was busting counterculture guru Timothy Leary out of prison in 1970. By 1980, most
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passes the lumbering 69th Regiment Armory at 26th Street (sixtyninth.net). The site of the famous Armory Show of 1913, which brought modern art to New York, and a very early home to the Knicks basketball team, it retains its original function as the headquarters of the National Guard’s “Fighting Sixty-Ninth
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the Rock and the Empire State Building are obvious places to go for panoramic views of New York, but you can find interesting angles on the city at any of the following: Brooklyn Bridge Brooklyn Bridge Park’s Main Street Lot Cantor Rooftop Garden The High Line The Panorama of the City of New York Diamond
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, packed with attractions meant to entertain legions of tourists. The heart of Midtown West is Times Square, where jostling crowds and huge neon signs assault the senses, and New York City reaches its commercial zenith. South of Times Square is the business-oriented Garment District, while just north of the once “naughty, bawdy
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highest point in the park, edges just south of Turtle Pond. It’s still a splendid viewpoint – its terraces prime perches for birdwatchers – and houses the New York Meteorological Observatory’s weather centre; there’s also a handy visitor centre here. Numerous ranger-led tours leave from here as well. Delacorte Theater
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based in Cleveland, the family eventually settled in New York, John D. Rockefeller, Jr moving into 740 Park Ave in 1937 (Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis grew up in the same posh building). His son Nelson Rockefeller (and New York governor) lived at 810 Fifth Ave. The Roosevelts New York’s premier political family produced two US presidents
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buildings arranged around a large plaza, serves as the city’s temple of high culture. Home to the world-class Metropolitan Opera, the New York City Ballet and the New York Philharmonic, as well as a host of other smaller companies, Lincoln Center is worth seeing even if you’re not catching a performance;
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of Nieuw Haarlem in 1658, naming it for a town in Holland, the area remained primarily farmland up until the mid-nineteenth century, when the New York and Harlem Railroad linked the area with Lower Manhattan. The suburb’s new, fashionable brownstones attracted better-off immigrant families, mainly German Jews from the
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the Union victory in the Civil War, was unveiled in 1892. Saturday is by far the best day to visit, when dozens of farmers from New York and New Jersey set up stalls here at the city’s second-largest farmers’ market (Sat year-round 8am–4pm). At the height of summer,
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, an affiliate of Midtown’s Museum of Modern Art. Farther out, Flushing Meadows–Corona Park draws sports fans for baseball and tennis; families come for the Queens Museum, Queens Zoo and New York Hall of Science. At the southeast end of the borough (accessible via the A train or, in some cases, by
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Bronx, although it has transformed Buckminster Fuller’s 1964 geodesic dome into a dizzying aviary, and some beautiful animals both big (bison, Shetland cattle) and small (coyote pups, pudú deer) roam the grounds. Unisphere and New York Pavilion East of the Queens Zoo, the Unisphere is a 140ft-high, stainless-steel globe that weighs
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facade; damaged by fire in late 2012, it’s now been transformed into a mega-church. The Bronx Bombers The Yankees, who inspire love and loathing in New York (and mostly the latter outside the city), moved from north Manhattan to the Bronx in 1923. Leading the way was George Herman “Babe” Ruth,
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include Belmont, better known as the Bronx’s Little Italy, and verdant Bronx Park, home to the city’s prized Bronx Zoo and New York Botanical Garden. Serious sightseers can seek out the Poe Cottage and the Hall of Fame for Great Americans. Arrival and departure By train/bus Take the B, D or #4
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Island Listings 21. Accommodation 22. Eating 23. Drinking 24. Nightlife 25. Performing arts and film 26. LGBT New York 27. Commercial galleries 28. Shopping 29. Sports and outdoor activities 30. Parades, festivals and events 31. Kids’ New York Accommodation Accommodation in New York eats up the lion’s share of travellers’ budgets. Most hotels in the city charge
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Astoria; COFFEE ART; Hot dog VENDOR; New York bagels > Chelsea and the meatpacking district West Chelsea is one of the more vibrant foodie havens in the city; there are excellent Spanish, Italian and New American spots that have sprouted along Ninth and Tenth avenues, and with the advent of the High Line, it’s only getting busier. The
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to many Off-Broadway theatres. Expect a $5–7 surcharge per ticket. Daily noon–8pm. Ticketmaster 800 745 3000, ticketmaster.com. Theatre festivals and events New York is home to some of the world’s best theatre festivals, especially in the summer. If you’re visiting in August, check out the highly
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summer theatre events are the Lincoln Center Festival and New York Musical Theatre Festival in July (nymf.org). The Downtown Urban Arts Festival in May (duafnyc.com) and Midtown International Theatre Festivals (midtownfestival.org) in July/August (MITF Summer) and October (MITF Fall) nurture new and up-and-coming talent. Theatre Theatre venues in the city
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out what sales are coming up is to check the current issues of Time Out New York and New York magazine, or follow the Twitter feeds of your favourite designers. new york novelty Manhattan is home to hundreds of unique, obscure and just plain crazy independent stores, though these are increasingly being pushed to the outer boroughs
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Mon–Fri 9am–5pm, Sat 10am–4pm, later on game days. Baseball The two Major League Baseball (MLB) teams – New York Mets (which compete in the East Division of the National League) and New York Yankees (East Division of the American League) – play for what seems the better part of the year; try to
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game of baseball, as it is played to this day. For half the twentieth century, New York was home to three Major League Baseball (MLB) teams: the New York Giants and the Brooklyn Dodgers, who represented the National League, and the New York Yankees, who represented the American League. Additionally, in the years before MLB was integrated,
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the most local flavour at September’s raucously tacky Feast of San Gennaro. Street fairs are usually listed on nycstreetfairs.com or in Time Out New York and neighbourhood newspapers. Smaller block parties, sponsored by community groups rather than business organizations, are more intimate affairs, generally with one side street closed to
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To find out what’s available when you’re in town, check listings in Time Out New York magazine (and the extra-specialized TONY Kids), the Village Voice, New York magazine and The New York Times; websites such as mommypoppins.com and achildgrows.com are also valuable resources. A solid directory of family-oriented events all around the
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the economy finally began to rebound, a spate of new hotels opened and construction sped up both on the buildings around the World Trade Center site and on the long-awaited arena in Brooklyn’s Atlantic Yards; meanwhile, the High Line and Hudson River Park developments helped spur revitalization on Manhattan’s west side.
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Despite this, the city seems on an upward swing, with the opening of One World Trade Center and its sky-high observatory, the relocation of the Whitney Museum at the foot of the High Line and the continued reclamation of the city’s waterfront. The mayor looks set to win another term, despite
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reform movements to its racial make-up in the 1820s. Robert A. Caro The Power Broker: Robert Moses and the Fall of New York. Despite its imposing length, this brilliant and searing critique of New York City’s most powerful twentieth-century figure is one of the most important books ever written about the city
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look at the artists (some household names, like de Kooning; some less so, like Hans Hoffman) who defined the 1940s, 50s and 60s of the New York scene – and how New York helped define them. Jacob Riis How the Other Half Lives. Photojournalism reporting on life in the Lower East Side at the end of
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the nineteenth century. Its original publication in 1890 awakened many to the plight of New York’s poor. Stern, Mellins and Fishman/Stern, Gilmartin and Massengale/Stern, Gilmartin and Mellins/Stern, Mellins and Fishman/Stern, Fishman and Tilove New York 1880/1900/1930/1960/2000. These five exhaustive tomes contain all you’ll ever want or
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-budget indie movies in equal measure. What follows is a selection not just of the best New York movies but the most New York of New York movies – movies that capture the city’s atmosphere, pulse and style. New York stories Basquiat (Julian Schnabel, 1996). Haunting portrait of the artist as a young (doomed) man, rising from spray
The Rough Guide to New York City
by Martin Dunford · 2 Jan 2009
-800/USA-RAIL, Wwww.amtrak.com). The most frequent services are along the Boston-to-Washington corridor; there is also one daily train between Montréal and New York. Fares from Boston are about $125 round-trip, or $200 for the Acela Express, which saves 35 minutes. DC trains are about $145, considerably
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has a $45 Boston–New York round-trip fare. Buses arrive in New York at the Port Authority Bus Terminal, Eighth Avenue and 42nd Street. The least expensive option by far is the Fung Wah bus (T212/925-8889, W www .fungwahbus.com), which runs nonstop between the Chinatowns of Boston and New York for $15 each way
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. From the UK and Ireland Flying to New York from the UK takes about seven hours; flights tend to leave Britain in the morning or afternoon
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30 Although it’s still the most vibrant news market in the US, only four newspapers remain: the broadsheets the New York Times and the New York Sun and the tabloids the Daily News and the New York Post. The New York Times ($1.25; Wwww .nytimes.com), an American institution, prides itself on being the “paper of record” – America’
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ranging from $110 per person (for six to eight minutes) to $204 33 B A SICS (16–20min). Reservations are required; times and locations vary on Sundays and holidays. New York Helicopter offers similar rates (W www.newyorkhelicopter.com). one of the historic yachts based at the South Street Seaport (p.61), or Chelsea
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tables, babysitting, etc – as well as some quirkier opportunities, like artist’s modeling in Soho or Tribeca. For ideas and positions, check the employment ads in the New York Times, New York Press, Village Voice, and the free neighborhood tabloids available throughout the city. If you’re a foreigner, you start at a disadvantage. Unless you
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the list. Governors Island | Governors Island “Nowhere in New York is more pastoral,” wrote travel writer Jan Morris of Governors Island, a 172-acre tract of land across from Brooklyn with unobstructed views of lower Manhattan and New York Harbor. Until the mid1990s, this was the largest and most expensively run Coast Guard installation in the
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took only minutes before the jury reached a verdict of not guilty. After he was acquitted, Zenger was appointed public printer of New York and New Jersey. Museum of American Finance and around Further along Wall Street, the former Bank of Manhattan Trust building at no. 40 was briefly the world’s tallest building
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their Most Wanted List. The group was responsible for several bombings in the 1970s, though the loss of life was studiously avoided – though buildings in New York and Washington, D.C, were damaged, the group’s most notorious exploit was busting counterculture guru Timothy Leary out of prison in 1970. By 1980 most
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a few wholesale meat companies remain, the area is now very much designer territory, with Stella McCartney and Alexander McQueen among the fashion boutiques The High Line 112 One of New York’s most ambitious urban regeneration projects, the High Line (Wwww.thehighline.org) should be open by 2009 as a unique city park, slicing through the
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high-rises on a former elevated rail line. Constructed between 1929 and 1934, the line was effectively abandoned
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skin. While Grand Central soon took on an almost mythical significance, today its traffic consists mainly of commuters speeding out to Connecticut, Westchester County, and upstate New York, and any claim to being a gateway to an undiscovered continent is purely symbolic. The most spectacular aspect of the building is its size, though in
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here that the east side’s more sedate approach to capitalism finally overflows its bounds and New York City reaches its commercial zenith. South of Times Square is the bustling, business-oriented Garment District, home to Madison Square Garden and Macy’s department store, while just north of the once “naughty, bawdy 42nd Street
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made the open space west of Central Park more accessible to city residents, who mainly still lived downtown. Cheap tenements began to pop up, and the New York Central Railroad line, which transported livestock to the 60th Street stockyards, went in about a year later, adding the smell of farm animals to
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open-air location for West Side Story, which was based on the stage musical set here. Home to the world-class Metropolitan Opera, the New York City Ballet, and the New York Philharmonic, as well as a host of other smaller companies, Lincoln Center is worth seeing even if you’re not catching a The
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of Nieuw Haarlem in 1658, naming it for a town in Holland, the area remained primarily farmland up until the mid-nineteenth century, when the New York and Harlem Railroad linked 8BTIJOHUPO)FJHIUT5IF$MPJTUFST "#$% 84545 )BNJMUPO (SBOHF 5)*3 % #3*%"7&/ (& 6& '*'5)"7&/6& $) 108&--#-7% 1"3,"
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as Hamilton Heights; like Morningside Heights to the south, there’s a blend of campus buildings (in this case, belonging to the City College of New York) and residences here, lightened by a sprinkle of slender parks on a bluff above Harlem. However, one stretch, the Hamilton Heights Sunday gospel Harlem’s incredible
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for a scenic bike ride along the water, then visit Coney Island, the venerable seaside amusement district known for its rattletrap roller-coaster, the Cyclone, and the New York Aquarium. Grab some borscht at nearby Brighton Beach, where the Russianborn population tops 320,000. “T 63( FS 00 & 9 , -: / 13 2 &4
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victory in the Civil War, was unveiled in 1892. Saturday is by far the best day to visit the plaza, when dozens of farmers from New York and New Jersey set up stalls here at the city’s second-largest Greenmarket (year-round 8am–4pm). At the height of summer, expect to find
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The park is home to the Brooklyn Cyclones (see p.404), a New York Mets-affiliated minor-league team that draws a dedicated crowd. Seating is intimate, beer flows freely, and tickets start at just $7. 240 Coney Island Museum and New York Aquarium East of Stillwell Avenue, the nonprofit Coney Island Museum, 1208 Surf Ave
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Meadows–Corona Park draws sports fans and families – the former to the New York Mets’ new stadium, Citi Field (which replaced Shea), and the USTA Billie Jean King National Tennis Center, home of the US Open Tennis Championships each fall, and the latter to the Queens Museum, Queens Zoo, and New York Hall of Science. At the southeast
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the heavily Irish cooperative community of Breezy Point feels like a beach town imported from another state – come here to truly escape New York. | Jamaica Bay and the Rockaways Jamaica Bay and the Rockaways QUE E NS Queens Historical Society. You can see the house from Bowne Street (which runs south from Northern Boulevard
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development in the 2000s. With a few exceptions, such as the Little Italy section of Belmont, which is within walking distance of the Bronx Zoo and the New York Botanical Garden, the Bronx doesn’t lend itself to extensive wandering, mainly because sights are spread so far apart. Smart use of public transportation
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a rather low-income area, though you wouldn’t guess it from the street’s The Bronx Bombers 258 The Yankees, who inspire love and loathing in New York (and mostly the latter outside the city), moved from north Manhattan to the Bronx in 1923. Leading the way was George Herman “Babe” Ruth,
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lawns. Other points of interest include Belmont, better known as the Bronx’s Little Italy, and verdant Bronx Park, home to the city’s prized Bronx Zoo and New York Botanical Garden. Serious sightseers can seek out the Poe Cottage and the Hall of Fame for Great Americans. | The Central Bronx The Central Bronx THE
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sts T 212/385-4900, W www.marriott.com. This civilized business hotel boasts excellent service as well as superb views of the Hudson River and New York Harbor. It’s situated near the relaxing Battery Park City esplanade, but you’ve got to cross the West Side Highway to get there. $
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of exploring the city’s diverse culinary landscape, though, is having a sense of adventure – eating is one of the great joys of being in New York, and it would be a shame to waste time on the familiar. A Cuisines 306 American cooking is an umbrella term for a vast array of
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not accept credit cards. The best way to find out what sales are coming up is to check the current issues of Time Out New York (Wwww.timeoutny.com) and New York magazine (Wwww.newyorkmetro.com). You can also sign up for the free regular emails issued by Charlie Suisman’s MUG (W www.manhattanusersguide
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popular copies of up-to-the-minute styles, well loved for their ability to take on New York’s “shoekilling” streets. Flea markets and craft fairs New York flea markets are outstanding for funky and old clothes, collectibles, lingerie, jewelry, and crafts; there’s also any number of odd places – parking lots, playgrounds, or maybe just
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the game of baseball, as it is played to this day. For half a century, New York was home to three Major League Baseball (MLB) teams: the New York Giants and the Brooklyn Dodgers, who represented the National League, and the New York Yankees, who represented the American League. Additionally, in the years before MLB was integrated, the
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Max Schmeling in the first round. In (American) football, “the greatest game ever played” took place at Yankee Stadium in December 1958 between the New York Giants and the Baltimore Colts. The televised championship game went into a dramatic overtime period, indirectly helping popularize the sport across the country. After more than 85
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in the Atlantic Division of the Eastern Conference of the National Hockey League (NHL). The regular season lasts throughout the winter and into early spring, when the playoffs take place. New York Rangers New York Islanders Founded in 1972, the Islanders (T 1800/882-ISLES, W www.newyork islanders.com) were fortunate enough to string
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www.5bbc.org. This club organizes rides throughout the year, including the Montauk Century, where riders can chose routes varying between 65 and 140 miles from New York to Montauk, Long Island. New York Cycle Club T212/828-5711, W www .nycc.org. This 1400-member club offers many rides. 411 Fishing Sometimes the amount
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800/NYCVISIT or go to W www.nycvisit.com. Also look at listings in the Village Voice’s “Voice Choices,” New York Magazine’s “Agenda,” Time Out New York’s “Around Town” sections, and in the New York Times’ “Weekend Arts” section, published every Friday. N PARA D E S A N D F E S T
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yields more character too – you might happen across lucha libre (Mexican wrestling) along with the usual fare. Street fairs are usually listed in Time Out New York and neighborhood newspapers. Smaller block parties, sponsored by community groups rather than business organizations, are more intimate affairs, generally with one sidestreet closed to cars, kids
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St T212/226-4085, Wwww.manhattanchildrens theatre.org. $20, inquire for children’s prices. Classic plays, fairy tales, and musicals, plus some new works. New York with teens For many teenagers, the sights and sounds of New York (paired with a little wellplaced down-time) will be fascinating enough, particularly if they have certain obsessions (movies
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The voters were rewarded: Giuliani’s first term ushered in a dramatic upswing in New York’s prosperity. A New York Times article described 1995 as “the best year in recent memory for New York City.” The pope even came to town and called New York “the capital of the world.” The city’s reputation flourished, with remarkable decreases
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reform movements to its racial make-up in the 1820s. 441 Robert A. Caro The Power Broker: Robert Moses and the Fall of New York. Despite its imposing length, this brilliant and searing critique of New York City’s most powerful twentieth-century figure is one of the most important books ever written about the city
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of the Gay Male World 1890–1940. Definitive, revealing account of the city’s gay subculture. CONTEXTS Kenneth T. Jackson (ed) The Enyclopedia of New York. Massive, engrossing, and utterly comprehensive guide to just about everything in the city. Did you know, for example, that Truman Capote’s real name was Streckford Persons
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C, D......... 98 Avery Fisher Hall ......... 191, 363 AXA Financial Center ... 150 469 bus tours ........................ 33 buses in the city ........................... 27 to and from the airport....... 23 to and from New York City .................................. 19, 24 C cabarets........................ 366 cafés .................... 290–305 cafes (by area) I ND E X | 470 Bronx................................ 305 Brooklyn ....................302–304
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Harlem Renaissance ... 204, 436 Harvard Club ................ 127 Haughwout Building....... 75 & New York Architecture color section Hayden Planetarium ..... 196 health......................36, 413 Hearst World Headquarters ................................... 150 helicopter tours .............. 33 Hell’s Kitchen........143, 149 Helmsley Building......... 134 Henderson Place.......... 185 Herald Square .............. 145 High Line ..............112, 113 Hispanic Society of America ..................... 214 Historic Richmond Town
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hours ................ 39 Orchard Beach ............ 264 Orchard Street................ 90 P Paine, Thomas.............. 109 Paley Center for Media ................................... 130 Panorama of the City of New York ................... 254 parades and festivals .............416–422 & Ethnic New York color section Affordable Art Fair............ 419 African-American Day Parade ...................................... 421 African Diaspora Film Festival ..................................... 422 American Crafts Festival ... 419 Asian American
The New Urban Crisis: How Our Cities Are Increasing Inequality, Deepening Segregation, and Failing the Middle Class?and What We Can Do About It
by Richard Florida · 9 May 2016 · 356pp · 91,157 words
. My research found that the metros with the highest levels of wage inequality were also those with the most dynamic and successful creative economies—San Francisco, Austin, Boston, Seattle, Washington, DC, and New York.3 But even as I was documenting these new divides, I had no idea how fast they would metastasize, or
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median home values were more than $2 million were located in these three metros: 11 in the San Francisco Bay Area, 7 in LA, and 6 in New York. In 2016, roughly 6 in 10 homes in the San Francisco metro area (57.4 percent) were valued at more than $1 million, up
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the most important economic generators for cities. The airport was limited to operating turbo-prop planes to relatively close-by places like Montreal, New York, Boston, Washington, DC, and Chicago. The question was whether it should be permitted to extend its runway to accommodate small jets that could fly to cities farther away
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Down?” BuildZoom, April 18, 2016, www.buildzoom.com/blog/cities-expansion-slowing. Geography can push up housing prices in other ways. Older cities like New York, Boston, and San Francisco are ringed by suburbs that make it impossible for them to expand outward, unlike younger Sunbelt cities, which have been able to annex
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in housing prices, according to a 2010 study by Massachusetts Institute of Technology economist Albert Saiz. Even when such geographically constrained places as New York, San Francisco, LA, and Boston have restrictive land use policies, geography is the key factor in the extraordinary run-up of their housing prices.26 Despite high land
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of Silicon Valley) has $48,566 left over; in San Francisco, it’s $45,200. In Washington, DC, it’s $43,308, and in Boston and New York it’s $42,858 and $42,120, respectively, considerably more than Orlando, $25,774, or Las Vegas, $26,194. In fact, the wages for the “average worker
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Thorstein Veblen coined the term, it has become something more mundane today—a new class of economic asset used to store and grow wealth.10 The broader evidence indicates that New York and London do have considerable shares of the world’s wealthiest people, the former leading in the location of billionaires, the latter
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wealth.12 On this metric, London comes out on top, with 4,364 of these ultra-rich. Tokyo is second, followed by Singapore, with New York in fourth place and Hong Kong in fifth. Figure 3.2: Locations of Ultra-High Net Worth Households Note: Households $30 million or more in assets. Source
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in urban ZIP codes in 2013. Roughly 60 percent of venture investment in the Bay Area went to dense, walkable neighborhoods in urban ZIP codes, and in New York, more than 80 percent did. In the ZIP codes that received venture capital investment nationwide, the share of workers who walked, biked, or used
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finance, banking, or even real estate, for instance, but by the incredible expansion of its creative economy, which grew by 13 percent between 2003 and 2013. Though New York’s 8.4 million people make up just 2.6 percent of the US population, the city is home to 8.6 percent of
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average; New York’s is one and a half times as high. New York has nearly three times and LA more than twice the national average for musicians and singers. LA’s concentration of actors is roughly ten times the national average; New York’s is two and a half times the average. LA has nearly seven times and New York four and a
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half times the national average for producers and directors. Both metros have more than three times the national average for writers and authors. And New York’s concentration of fashion designers is ten
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in London. America’s great indigenous art form, the blues, was born in the Mississippi Delta and came of age in Chicago before it was massively commercialized in New York, LA, and London. Madonna moved from Detroit to New York, and Miley Cyrus from a suburb of Nashville to LA. Taylor Swift, who grew up in Reading
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residents back to cities. Both public universities and private research universities receive substantial federal support, and many offer housing or housing subsidies to university faculty and staff, who often live in and spur gentrification in adjacent neighborhoods. Public investment in parks and green spaces also boosts gentrification. New York’s High Line park, for example, has generated billions of
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neighborhood is rising. Of course, large-scale publicly subsidized redevelopment efforts, such as Hudson Yards in New York City
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Heights. Conversely, rents increased by just over 18 percent in South Crown Heights and more than 20 percent in Brownsville and Ocean Hill. Figure 4.2: Gentrifying and Non-Gentrifying Neighborhoods in New York Source: NYU Furman Center, State of New York City’s Housing and Neighborhoods in 2015, May 2016. An even more varied pattern of housing
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close proximity to the gentrified (or gentrifying) neighborhoods. We can all think of obvious exceptions to this rule—traditionally African American neighborhoods like New York’s Harlem, Crown Heights, and Bedford Stuyvesant have all experienced intensive gentrification, for example. But the main message of this study, which is applicable in the lion’s
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is increasingly becoming baked into the new geography of class in America. 5 THE INEQUALITY OF CITIES Up until 2012, few people outside of Brooklyn and New York City’s progressive political circles had even heard of Bill de Blasio. Though he had been elected to the citywide Office of Public Advocate in
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the top 5 percent rakes in, on average, in excess of $550,000. Income inequality in the superstar cities of New York and Los Angeles and the knowledge hubs of Boston, Washington, DC, and San Francisco is also driven by those at the top. But there are other metros where large 95–20 ratios are
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poor are most highly segregated in Rustbelt metros—Milwaukee, Cleveland, and Detroit—along with Hartford, Philadelphia, and Baltimore in the Northeast corridor spanning Boston, New York, and Washington, DC, Memphis in the Southeast, and Denver in the Southwest (see Table 6.2). But New York ranks sixth; and tech hubs have higher levels of poverty segregation than they do
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school are most segregated include Los Angeles; the tech hubs of Austin, Denver, San Diego, San Francisco, and San Jose; and the Sunbelt metros of Phoenix, Dallas, San Antonio, and Houston (see Table 6.4). New York, Boston, and Washington, DC, also have relatively high levels of educational segregation, although they rank outside the top ten
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segregation of the creative class, the now familiar pattern of superstar cities and tech hubs comes through more clearly (see Table 6.7). Los Angeles takes first place, and New York City is fifth. The tech hubs of San Jose, San Francisco, Austin, and San Diego also number among the top ten, along with Chicago
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large metro on this metric, followed by Austin, Dallas, Washington, DC, Raleigh-Cary in the North Carolina Research Triangle, San Francisco, and San Jose in the top ten, with New York and Boston also pretty far up on the broader list. When it comes to overall occupational segregation—based on our composite index for
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the segregation of all three classes—tech hubs and superstar cities again top the list (see Table 6.10). San Jose is first, San Francisco second, and Washington, DC, third, followed by Austin, LA, and New York, and then Houston, San Diego, San Antonio, and Columbus rounding out the top ten. In all these places
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faster rate than their suburbs in more than half (21 of 41) of the largest US metros, among them Charlotte, Oklahoma City, Milwaukee, and Indianapolis, as well as New York, San Francisco, and Austin. And although the suburbs are creating jobs at a faster rate than urban centers, those jobs are lower paying, less skilled
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400. Today, there are more than 500. In 1950, there were only two mega-cities that had more than 10 million people: New York and Tokyo. Today, there are 28, and by 2030, there will be 40 or so. By 2150, according to one plausible projection, the world will have perhaps ten mega-cities
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reap extraordinary rewards, or rents, by simply profiting from the increase in property values that is created by neighborhood upgrading and the ongoing appreciation of real estate values. The High Line Park in New York, for instance, created a huge increase in the land value of surrounding property, which generated windfalls for real estate developers
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rail (traveling at speeds like France’s TGV or Japan’s Shinkansen) could reduce the travel time between New York and Boston, or New York and Washington, DC, to less than ninety minutes, and between Dallas and Houston, or Dallas and Austin, to about the same; trips from LA to San Francisco, or Pittsburgh to Chicago, would shrink to
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metro to metro or city to city, ranging from a high of around $15 an hour in San Jose and DC to roughly $14 in San Francisco, about $13 in Boston, New York, and Seattle, and around $9.50 in less expensive metros such as Las Vegas, Louisville, Memphis, Miami, Nashville, New Orleans, Orlando, San
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Glaeser, The Triumph of the City: How Our Greatest Invention Makes Us Richer, Smarter, Greener, Healthier, and Happier (New York: Penguin, 2011); Bruce Katz and Jennifer Bradley, The Metropolitan Revolution: How Cities and Metros Are Fixing Our Broken Politics and Fragile Economy (Washington, DC: Brookings Institution Press, 2013); Benjamin Barber, If Mayors Ruled the World: Dysfunctional
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.nytimes.com/2011/09/04/opinion/sunday/one-path-to-better-jobs-more-density-in-cities.html; Matthew Yglesias, The Rent Is Too Damn High (New York: Simon and Schuster, 2012); Matthew Yglesias, “NIMBYs Are Killing the National Economy,” Vox, April 25, 2014, www.vox.com/2014/4/25/5650816/NIMBYs-are-killing
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/news/london/londons-3bn-ghost-mansions-foreign-investors-are-using-capitals-finest-homes-as-reallife-monopoly-pieces-9128782.html. On New York, see Sam Roberts, “Homes Dark and Lifeless, Kept by Out-of-Towners,” New York Times, July 6, 2011, www.nytimes.com/2011/07/07/nyregion/more-apartments-are-empty-yet-rented-or-owned
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, www.citylab.com/housing/2016/09/the-latest-victims-of-london-gentrification-are-the-rich/498536. 9. Louise Story and Stephanie Saul, “Stream of Foreign Wealth Flows to Elite New York Real Estate,” New York Times, February 7, 2015, www.nytimes.com/2015/02/08/nyregion/stream-of-foreign-wealth-flows-to-time-warner-condos
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School of Professional Studies, July 2015, www.pageturnpro.com/New-York-University/67081-The-Great-Reset/index.html; Richard Florida, “Resetting and Reimagining New York City’s Economy,” CityLab, July 29, 2015, www.citylab.com/politics/2015/07/resetting-and-reimagining-new-york-citys-economy/399815; Adam Forman, Creative New York, Center for an Urban Future, June 2015, https://nycfuture
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.org/research/publications/creative-new-york-2015. 28. Juan Mateos-Garcia and Hasan Bakhshi, The Geography of Creativity in the UK, Nesta, July 2016, www
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, www.citylab.com/housing/2014/12/no-ones-very-good-at-correctly-identifying-gentrification/383724. 23. NYU Furman Center for Real Estate and Urban Policy, State of New York City’s Housing and Neighborhoods in 2015, May 2016, http://furmancenter.org/files/sotc/NYUFurmanCenter_SOCin2015_9JUNE2016.pdf. 24. These data were provided by PropertyShark
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.com. 25. Lance Freeman, “Displacement or Succession?,” Urban Affairs Review 40, no. 4 (2005): 463–491; Lance Freeman and Frank Braconi, “Gentrification and Displacement: New York City in the 1990s,” Journal of the American Planning Association 70, no. 1 (2004): 39–52; Lance Freeman, “Neighborhood Diversity, Metropolitan Segregation
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/2009/03/how-the-crash-will-reshape-america/307293; Richard Florida, The Great Reset: How the Post-Crash Economy Will Change the Way We Live and Work (New York: Harper Business, 2010); Nick Timiraos, “U.S. Homeownership Rate Falls to 20-Year Low,” Wall Street Journal, January 29, 2015, http://blogs.wsj.com
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Hartley, Daniel, 63–64 Helsinki, 16 (table), 17 High Line park, 37, 66, 194 high-speed rail, 197–198 high-tech industry centralization of, 19 density and, 43–45 economic inequality and, 47–49 economic segregation and, 111 gentrification and, 48–49 housing costs and, 37, 47–49 in New York City, 43, 44 (table), 45–47 rise of
City Squares: Eighteen Writers on the Spirit and Significance of Squares Around the World
by Catie Marron · 11 Apr 2016 · 195pp · 58,462 words
enjoyed visiting some of the most famous, such as Place des Vosges, Piazza di Navona, and Djemaa el-Fnaa, and I have taken advantage of the ones near home in New York City. But their power—in humanity, urban life, and history—had never fully registered with me. A few years ago, that changed. Whenever
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as people did the agoras of ancient Greece. Squares have stood the test of time. After all, squares are all about, and for, people. THOMAS STRUTH Times Square Billboard, New York City OBERTO GILI PART ONE CULTURE: POWER OF THE PLACE INTRODUCTION Michael Kimmelman ON MOST MORNINGS, THE CAMPO DE’ FIORI COMES AWAKE
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Washington Square. That the Village has become one of the most desirable and expensive places in the world is in no small measure due to Moses’s failure and the park’s survival. The good life, wrote the other great New York urban writer of Jacobs’s era, Lewis Mumford, involves more than shared
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turns out to be that there’s a nearly insatiable demand for such places. Under Michael Bloomberg’s administration, New York City inaugurated a program to convert streets across the five boroughs into plazas and squares. Making Times Square into a pedestrian mall was the program’s headliner. But the mayor’s office
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proposed. The city carted in some potted trees, benches, chairs, and tables, and voilà, a new square was created. Some of these made an immediate difference in reducing crime, boosting local commerce, and improving street life. ALO CEBALLOS/Getty Images, Washington Square Park, New York City But the big news was just how much people
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craved public squares. Madison Square Park, lately renovated and one of the loveliest parks in New York City, faces the Flatiron Building, where Fifth Avenue
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, a parish extends the distance of a church bell’s ring, and the bells of St. Ludwig’s, while deafening in the square, filtered through the surrounding streets, binding the neighborhood together. On our final day before moving back to New York, one of those cruelly perfect, sun-kissed summer Sundays in Berlin
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something in common with such spaces as Rittenhouse Square in Philadelphia or Gramercy Park in New York—as a residential square, in first form and continued feeling—it also has something in common with the small cobblestone streets and intersections of the cast-iron district in Manhattan, a great civic gem that for a
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that lined the square were meant to house factories on the second and third floors—the spacious scale they offer today to those lucky enough to live in them was, in effect, like those of the loft buildings of New York’s SoHo, derived from their original utilitarian purpose. Uniform in design, they
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CESARINI THE PROBLEM WAS A HALOGEN bulb; it was extremely hot and built into a bookcase. Perhaps the page of a book had strayed over it, or the corner of a cushion, I’ll never know. I was due in New York the next morning for a reading in Brooklyn, my bag was
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my memory for the word for fire. “Incendio!” I cried. (This is something like leaning out a New York window and screaming: “Conflagration!”) People looked up, but nobody moved. The dog was screaming. I opened our door to look for what might be saved. I reached
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in Manama, Bahrain. In every one of these places, and in many more, there have been major upheavals, set pieces of political drama. In 1989 my wife, Esther Fein, and I were working in Moscow as newspaper reporters, she for The New York Times and I for The Washington Post. (We had done plenty of
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area; it can still be observed today. In the nineteenth century, the world’s third-oldest subway line (after London and New York) was opened here, connecting Galata to Pera. Taksim Square and the areas surrounding it were traditionally the most cosmopolitan parts of Istanbul. Unlike more conservative boroughs, the area around Taksim has
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FEI GI News/Getty Images, artist Davide Martello brought his self-made grand piano to Taksim Square and played for 14 hours alongside the protestors SZE TSUNG LEONG Tiananmen Square, Beijing, courtesy Yossi Milo Gallery, New York TIANANMEN SQUARE, BEIJING: IN SEARCH OF HEAVENLY PEACE Evan Osnos TO FOREIGNERS, TIANANMEN SQUARE HAS ONE
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change. Being communal, squares reflect the civic culture of a city and a civilization. Times Square—whether the sleazy 1970s version (preserved forever in Midnight Cowboy and Taxi Driver) or the more recent corporate-neon fantasyland—represents the naked capitalism of New York, open to all comers. That it’s not so much a
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Brooklyn is safer than many small towns. Everything Jane Jacobs prescribed for cities is here—diversity of uses, eyes on the street. The resurrection of New York and other American cities is a singular achievement of recent years, but it would be hard to claim that it’s been accompanied by a resurgence
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end, opposite Ground Zero, an anarchic drum circle pounded out noise day and night. Around the square, hard-core occupiers—some of them homeless—staked out spots for sleeping bags and pup tents. The occupation dominated public attention in New York for two months in the fall of 2011. It created spin-offs around
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England in the 1970s, when I grew up, children used to hang out in the village squares and greens with considerable freedom. But for my daughter and her friends, who live in twenty-first-century New York, the cultural mores feel entirely different. So after I read boyd’s argument, I stopped fretting quite
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Erich Lessing/Art Resource ABOUT THE AUTHORS CATIE MARRON With a career that has encompassed investment banking, magazine journalism, and public service, Marron is currently chairman of the board of directors of Friends of the High Line; a trustee of the New York Public Library, where she was chairman of the board for seven years
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; and a contributing editor to Vogue. Also the editor of City Parks, she lives in New York City with her family. DAVID ADJAYE, OBE David Adjaye is
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recipient of the Chevalier of the Order of Arts and Letters from the French Republic. www.adamgopnik.com ALMA GUILLERMOPRIETO Born in Mexico City, Guillermoprieto is a journalist and essayist whose work has appeared in the New Yorker, the Washington Post, Newsweek, and the New York Review of Books. She is a MacArthur fellow, a
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KIMMELMAN The architecture critic for the New York Times, Kimmelman was its longtime chief art critic. He is the author
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of several books, including the national bestseller The Accidental Masterpiece: On the Art of Life and Vice Versa, a regular contributor to the New York Review of Books, and has been recognized with numerous honors including the Brendan Gill Prize. JEHANE NOUJAIM An Egyptian-American documentary director
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five nonfiction books, including The Assassins’ Gate: America in Iraq, which was among the New York Times’s ten best books of the year in 2005 and the winner of the New York Public Library’s Helen Bernstein Book Award, and The Unwinding: An Inner History of the New America, which won the National Book Award
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1998, Remnick’s books include Lenin’s Tomb, King of the World, and The Bridge. ANDREW ROBERTS A Visiting Professor at London’s King’s College, and the Lehrman Institute Lecturer at the New-York Historical Society, Roberts is also a New York Times bestselling author whose books have been translated into eighteen languages. He appears
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published in more than forty languages, Shafak is also a political scientist, activist, and public speaker. She has written for major publications around the world, including the Financial Times, the Wall Street Journal, the New York Times, the Guardian, and other publications. A founding member of the European Council on Foreign Relations, she was
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columnist and writer, Shavit is the author of the New York Times bestseller My Promised Land: The Triumph and Tragedy of Israel, which was one of the Economist’s best
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public television. www.arishavit.com ZADIE SMITH English writer Zadie Smith has written four award-winning novels, including White Teeth, On Beauty, and, most recently, NW. A professor at New York University, Smith is also the author of an essay collection, Changing My Mind. RICHARD STENGEL Stengel is U.S. undersecretary of the
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the experience, Mandela’s Way: Lessons on Life, Love, and Courage. RORY STEWART, OBE, FRSL A British academic, author, diplomat, documentary maker, and politician, Stewart is the minister for the Environment in the British Government. The author of three books, including the New York Times bestseller The Places in Between, describing his solo walk
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Ltd. 1 London Bridge Street London SE1 9GF, UK www.harpercollins.co.uk United States HarperCollins Publishers Inc. 195 Broadway New York, NY 10007 www.harpercollins.com *A catchphrase of my mother’s and a powerful adject for me. *danah boyd, It’s Complicated: The Social Lives of Networked Teens (New Haven: Yale
Money Free and Unfree
by George A. Selgin · 14 Jun 2017 · 454pp · 134,482 words
Table 4.3: Chicago Bank-Note Discounts, October 1863 Table 6.1: Deposits of the Eight Largest New York City Banks, October 21, 1913 Table 6.2: Bankers’ Balances in Six Largest New York National Banks, 1913 and 1926 Table 8.1: Characteristics of Quarterly Inflation Table 8.2: Output Volatility, Alternative GNP Estimates Table
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system. That encounter, finally, led to my becoming Larry’s first graduate student when he joined the faculty at New York University and to my pursuit there and since of my own research on free banking and other, alternative monetary arrangements. The essays reproduced here, with minor changes, represent a sample of that research, with
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have drawn from this? What conclusions should be drawn from the fact that large Canadian banks have sometimes relied upon private banks in New York City both prior to and after 1913? Finally, what should one conclude from the experience of the Swedish enskilda banks prior to 1900—which were, as a matter
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a total of $119,813,212 in notes that traded at par in Chicago. Included were practically all the banks in Illinois, New England and New York, Indiana, Ohio, Delaware, and Philadelphia, as well as the State Bank of Iowa. Other banks’ notes were discounted even in Chicago, but here again the discounts were
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could be returned to their issuer at relatively low cost. The par-acceptance requirement burdened the banks of Philadelphia, Boston, and especially New York. Notes were brought to New York by the “channels of trade” and—more importantly—by shipments from correspondent banks who thereby acquired deposits in the “reserve city” banks that they could count
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Chronicle (1870: 102–3) attributed the opposition to the interior banks’ desire to maximize short-term profits, to their constant fear of becoming “tributary” to New York, and to the “demoralization of opinion upon banking regulations which grew out of the financial expedients of the [Civil War].” THE REFORM OF 1874 By the
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their city correspondents, extending the notes’ circulation (Bell 1912: 45–47). The majority of notes received by the Treasury were sent by New York banks, with shipments from Philadelphia and Boston next in size. SHERMAN’S ORDER OF 1878 Despite the relative paucity of note returns, the Treasurer’s office was quickly overwhelmed
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last important effort to establish an actively redeemed asset currency, was a joint product of the ABA’s Currency Commission and the Committee on Finance and Currency of the New York State Chamber of Commerce. Their proposal, put before Congress in 1907 as H.R. 23017, recommended that national banks be allowed to issue
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Bankers’ Association 1907: 138). But skepticism was not confined to the unit banking interests. Frank Vanderlip, a former assistant secretary of the treasury and a member of the New York currency committee, also came to doubt “whether the creation of numerous redemption points would be sufficient to drive in the redundant circulation.”30
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I also wish to respond to conventional, celebratory accounts of the Fed’s establishment by drawing attention to the way in which special interests, and representatives of the major New York City banks in particular, seized control of the pre-Fed currency reform movement, taking it in a direction better suited to preserving
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with Midwestern city correspondents, sending their surplus funds there during the off-season. Midwestern city correspondents, in turn, kept funds with New York correspondents, and especially with the handful of banks that dominated New York’s money market. Those banks, finally, lent the money they received from interior banks to stockbrokers at call (White 1983
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have survived with a little timely assistance. Although it exposed them to occasional crises, the correspondent business was both very lucrative to the most powerful New York banks and crucial to their success, having come to surpass in importance the business they did with individual depositors. By October 1913, the eight largest
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Wall Street Journal itself took part in this campaign, by publishing a 14-part series of opinion pieces authored by Charles Conant, a journalist and member of the New York Chamber of Commerce Commission on Currency Reform, which had earlier reported in favor of establishing a U.S. central bank. The first fruits
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plan proponents, with Benjamin Strong landing what would quickly become the most powerful position of all: governorship of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York. Notwithstanding the appearance of decentralization and government control, control of the Fed had, in fact, been “captured” by Wall Street, which thereby secured for itself a position of
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disappointing to sincere proponents of reform, including many of that act’s champions, than its utter failure to address the pyramiding of bank reserves in New York City, and the consequent employment of such reserves to finance stock purchases. As Lawrence Clark (1935: 346) observed two decades after the Fed’s establishment, the
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attractive than it ever was before the establishment of the central banking system” (Clark 1935: 358). Table 6.2: Bankers’ Balances in Six Largest New York National Banks, 1913 and 1926 (Millions of Dollars) SOURCE: Watkins (1929: 21, Table 4; 60, Table 15). Figure 6.2: Bankers’ Balances in National Banks, 1900–30
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banking interests to determine its plan for reform. It was only to be expected that Wall Street would favor a plan protective of its interests—and of New York’s correspondent banking business in particular—while opposing any alternative that might harm those interests. For that reason, the public was right to be
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million. The immediate cause of suspension in the Union was a decision by Chase that warrants the adjective “Jacksonian.” Having convinced the bankers of New York, Boston, and Philadelphia to collectively purchase $50 million in Treasury securities, with the option of buying two further installments of the same size, Chase surprised them by
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June 1967, France became the first country to act upon growing doubts about the dollar’s future convertibility by quitting the gold pool and starting to shift gold from New York and London to Paris. France’s move put sterling under severe pressure that led, in November 1967, to its devaluation, which, in turn
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the National Banking Act, encouraged interior banks to count balances with city correspondents as cash reserves. The consequent “pyramiding” of reserves in New York, combined with inflexible minimum reserve requirements and the “inelasticity” of the stock of national bank notes (which had to be more than fully backed by increasingly expensive government bonds
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—a framework that relies heavily on a small number of systematically important financial firms known as “primary dealers,” as well as on JPMorgan Chase and Bank of New York Mellon in their capacity as “clearing banks” for the Fed’s temporary open market transactions. In theory, these private institutions serve as efficient monetary
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legislation during the National Banking period removed Charleston and added Baltimore, Cincinnati, San Francisco, and Chicago. 5. Other determinants of New York banks’ excess reserves were, in order of significance: (1) movements of gold and greenbacks between banks and the public; (2) movements between the banks and the New York subtreasury; and (3) international gold flows (Scott 1908: 273–98
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The Enablers: How the West Supports Kleptocrats and Corruption - Endangering Our Democracy
by Frank Vogl · 14 Jul 2021 · 265pp · 80,510 words
. James A. Thurber, Distinguished University Professor of Government; Founder of the Center for Congressional and Presidential Studies, American University The Enablers The Enablers How the West Supports Kleptocrats and Corruption—Endangering Our Democracy Frank Vogl ROWMAN & LITTLEFIELD Lanham • Boulder • New York • London Published by Rowman & Littlefield An imprint of The Rowman & Littlefield Publishing Group
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for ever greater power. Central to Western complicity with kleptocrats and their associates across the globe are the armies of financial and legal advisors, real estate and luxury yacht brokers, art dealers and auction house managers, diamond and gold traders, auditors, and consulting firms, based in London and in New York and in other important global business centers, who aid
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kleptocrats constantly operate on a global scale. For example, the activities of kleptocrats and their associates in Nigeria impact real estate prices in London and in New York as the crooked officials take their ill-gotten gains and launder them through global banks and other financial intermediaries into prime properties. For example, in 2017, the US
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democracy around the world. The records show that five global banks—JPMorgan, HSBC, Standard Chartered Bank, Deutsche Bank and Bank of New York Mellon—kept profiting from powerful and dangerous players even after US authorities fined these financial institutions for earlier failures to stem flows of dirty money.”3 Many of the media investigations
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had done business with Saudi Arabia’s largest private financial institution, Al Rajhi Bank. After al Qaeda’s September 11, 2001, attacks on New York’s World Trade Towers and the Pentagon, suspicions mounted that Al Rajhi had unsavory connections. In 2005, HSBC announced internally that its affiliates should sever ties with the
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Ackermann’s leadership, became a major competitor across the global stage of investment banking. It bought Bankers Trust in New York, established major investment banking and trading operations on both sides of the Atlantic, and went after the huge commissions associated with sovereign debt bond issues. There was a downside to such aggressiveness. For
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(PCI)—$11,964,915 Investment Company Institute (ICI)—$11,903,162 Independent Community Bankers of America (ICBA)—$11,644,426 Goldman Sachs—$11,237,071 New York Life Insurance—$11,169,176 USAA—$10,907,945 Wells Fargo—$10,571,054 While the US banking authorities, the Treasury, the SEC
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. Berman, who at the time was the US attorney for the Southern District of New York. He pursued Halkbank, asserting that it used front companies in Iran, Turkey, the United Arab Emirates, and elsewhere to violate and to evade and avoid prohibitions against Iran’s access to the US financial system, restrictions on the use
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power behind the throne. But even before the 2019 election, the Macri government was in trouble and had to restructure the $65 billion,19 while turning to the IMF for help. The IMF provided a record-high line of credit amounting to $57 billion. Today, Argentina is awash in foreign debt that it
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Russian state. The scale of property ownership via offshore holding companies on behalf of kleptocrats and their associates is probably even greater in the United States. For example, a five-part series of articles in the New York Times6 detailed the results of investigations into the ownership of 200 of the most expensive
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longer in control of the companies. Assisting Lord Barker, according to a detailed investigation by the New York Times, were, among others, the Mercury public relations firm in Washington, DC, and the law firms of Latham & Watkins, Dentons, and Steptoe & Johnson. This is an elite army with considerable political access honed over many years
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clients. For example, Jho Low, who has been at the center of the Malaysian 1MDB scandal, acquired five works of art at auction in New York, including a Monet and a Picasso, for approximately $58.3 million, according to US Justice Department filings. Had Low not been on the US wanted list, then
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’s a rotten game. Chapter 8 Secret Dealings A good lawyer knows the law and a great lawyer knows the judge. —Mark Koplik, partner in the New York law firm of Henderson & Koplik LLC, as recorded by Global Witness and shown on the CBS television program 60 Minutes Isabel dos Santos, long seen as
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-based Global Witness organization, carrying a hidden video camera, managed to have meetings in New York with partners in thirteen law firms as he posed as the representative of a wealthy African politician seeking to make safe and anonymous investments in the United States. Only one of the lawyers he met showed him
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so we make them in ways that’s advantageous to the lawyers.” The fees that kleptocrats and corrupt international financial organizations offer to lawyers are sometimes too tempting. For example, in January 2019, the large New York–headquartered law firm of Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP agreed that it should have registered
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reputation in the US Congress by depicting his opponent as a corrupt leader, was leaked by a Skadden partner to reporter David Sanger of the New York Times. The law firm, as part of its Justice Department settlement, agreed to pay the Treasury the full fee that it had been paid for
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plan was to drum up old racial hatreds. It was a bridge too far, and when the scheme was exposed, Bell Pottinger partners and employees, as well as clients, fled and the company collapsed. In an article in the New York Times, Bell reflected what is perhaps the guideline for too many wretched consultants: “Morality
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UK/German/French–owned commercial aircraft rival to Boeing, which also sold military equipment in its dirty deals9 ; and Sweden’s Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson. US Attorney Geoffrey S. Berman of the Southern District of New York said on announcing a settlement of charges at the end of 2019: “Today, Swedish telecom giant Ericsson
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. In the 1930s, in the Depression, he sold precious Russian ikons and artworks in a public auction held at Macy’s in New York. He was the ultimate enabler with networks that spanned the globe, embracing heads of state and industry tycoons and deals always masked in secrecy. They included dealings with Richard Nixon that
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powerful kleptocratic aspirations, making them all the more likely targets for Russian kompromat. For example, Hungary and Poland receive large amounts of EU agricultural budget payments each year that are misused, according to a 2019 New York Times investigation. EU officials admitted after the publication of the story that there was a serious
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to expose massive corruption in world soccer perpetrated by the Swiss-based Fédération Internationale de Football Association (FIFA) organization and its senior executives, including one who rented three apartments in Trump Tower in New York.20 Significantly, it was the US Justice Department, not the Swiss equivalent, that led the charge against FIFA
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state-owned enterprises to hundreds of billions of dollars in the international bond markets, through bonds managed by financial institutions in London and New York and other key financial centers that seemingly take no interest in just how the funds are used, adds to the entrenchment of the kleptocracies. In turn,
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financier at the Lazard Freres investment bank who pushed his deal-making aside and jumped into action when New York City faced bankruptcy in 1975. He chaired the Municipal Assistance Corporation with no pay to deploy his management and negotiating skills. Another New York investment banker, Robert Roosa, a partner at Brown Brothers Harriman, had played
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Orban, Gets Away with It: He Takes Near-Dictatorial Powers, While the EU Does Nothing.” The New York Times article “In Hungary, Viktor Orban Showers Money on Stadiums, Less So on Hospitals,” by Patrick Kingsley and Benjamin Novak, October 26, 2019. 7. For an overview of the challenges of curbing corruption in Nigeria
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Aslund. Published in 2019 by Yale University Press. 7. BBC news report July 2, 2020, headline: “Putin Strongly Backed in Controversial Russian Reform Vote.” 8. New York Times, article by Andrew Higgins, October 2, 2019, headline: “Russia Couldn’t Stop This Putin Critic. Now It Has a New Tactic.” 9. On the
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presidency’s crowning disgrace.” (It’s Our Turn To Eat: The Story of a Kenyan Whistleblower, by Michela Wrong, published by Fourth Estate, London, 2009.) New York Times, December 21, 2003: “Kenya Joins Nations Pursuing Funds Stolen by Ex-Leaders.” Capital News—Nairobi, November 21, 2008—headline: “The High Court on Friday
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Rights Research. 24. See Richard McGregor’s “Xi Jinping: The Backlash,” a Lowry Institute Paper, published by Penguin Specials, 2019, and papers noted previously here by Professor Andrew Wederman. 25. New York Times article by Alexandre Stevenson from Hong Kong, July 2020, headline: “China Is Dismantling the Empire of a Vanished Tycoon.” Also
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fortune in June 2012. That story was built upon with an in-depth article by journalist Michael Forsythe reported on June 18, 2014, in the New York Times: “As China’s Leader Fights Graft, His Relatives Shed Assets.” The Bloomberg News site was immediately blocked by the Chinese authorities on publication of
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30. The Economist, June 6, 2020, edition: “The Pandemic Is Hurting China’s Belt and Road Initiative.” 31. Op-Ed article headed “Don’t Bankroll China,” by Senator Marco Rubio, a Republican senator from Florida, in the New York Times, January 19, 2020. CHAPTER 7 1. For an overview, see the report of
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intelligence community. The committee was originally established by the Intelligence Services Act 1994 and was reformed, and its powers reinforced, by the Justice and Security Act 2013. 6. The New York Times five-part series titled “Towers of Secrecy” by Louise Story and Stephanie Saul, February 7, 2015. The stories were based on investigations of the
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metropolitan areas, which have seen large numbers of such transactions. Specifically, FinCen’s order related to: (1) all boroughs of New York City; (2) Miami-Dade County and the two counties immediately north (Broward and Palm Beach); (3) Los Angeles County; (4) three counties comprising part of the San Francisco area (San Francisco, San
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.” 13. “Report on the Investigation into Russian Interference in the 2016 Presidential Election.” Special Counsel Robert S. Mueller. March 2019. 14. New York Times, November 4, 2018, article by Andrew Higgins and Kenneth P. Vogel, headline: “Two Capitals, One Russian Oligarch: How Oleg Deripaska Is Trying to Escape U.S. Sanctions.” 15. US
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Scheme to Defraud the United States.” 6. Global Witness’s 2014 investigation: “Undercover in New York.” 7. US Justice Department, National Security Division, announcement of a settlement agreement on January 15, 2019. 8. Our Man: Richard Holbrooke and the End of the American Century, by George Packer, 2019, published by Alfred A. Knopf
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, New York. 9. See detailed 1992 brief published by the Federation of American Scientists (FAS): “Robert Morgenthau—BBCI
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raised €4.8 billion since 2013, while Malta has reaped about €718 million in foreign direct investment since 2014.” 19. New York Times, February 4, 2018, “Bell Pottinger PR Firm for Despots and Rogues,” by David Segal. Also see Lord Bell’s obituary in the Washington Post by Harrison Smith, August 26, 2019
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People: Trump White House Backs Arms Dealers: U.S. Arms Sales to Saudi Arabia Continue in the Face of Human Rights Violations and a Brutal War in Yemen.” 11. The New York Times, May 18, 2020, headline: “Fired Watchdog Was Investigating Arms Sales to Saudi Arabia.” Also see data from the Arms Control
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Mr. Firtash was published by Reuters, November 26, 2014, written by Stephen Grey, Tom Bergin, Sevgil Musaieva, and Roman Anin: “Putin’s Allies Channeled Billions to Ukraine Oligarch.” 6. Interview by Mr. Firtash with the New York Times, November 25, 2019. 7. Bloomberg News, September 23, 2019, “Trump-Friendly Lawyers Join Legal Team
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originally established by the Intelligence Services Act 1994 and was reformed, and its powers reinforced, by the Justice and Security Act 2013. 12. Story in the New York Times: “The Money Farmers: How Oligarchs and Populists Milk the E.U. for Millions,” November 3, 2019. And—follow-up—the New York Times: “E.U. Lawmakers Condemn Subsidy Corruption but
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Ex-Treasurer Sentenced in Massive Corruption Case.” CHAPTER 12 1. Financial Times, interview on July 9, 2007, by Michiyo Nakamoto in Tokyo and David Wighton in New York with Charles Prince. 2. The Banker magazine annual publishes the data on the world’s 100 largest banks: the 2019 numbers were published in the
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Settlements. October 22, 2020. Department of Justice, October 22, 2020, headline: “Goldman Sachs Charged in Foreign Bribery Case and Agrees to Pay over $2.9 Billion.” Case documents: US District Court Eastern District, New York. US against the Goldman Sachs Group, Inc. Defendant. Cr. No. 20-437 (MKB). Federal Reserve Board fines the
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cautiously optimistic perspective on the fight against illicit finance almost impossible. Throughout this long journey, Peter Bernstein, at the Bernstein Literary Agency in New York, has been a calm and reassuring friend, consistently advising on drafts. Without that support, this book would not have been published. My thanks to Jon Sisk at Rowman
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