How New York City Transformed Over the Past 40 Years

A lively, immersive history by an award-winning urbanist of New York City's transformation, and the lessons it offers for the city's future.

Read more about NEW YORK, NEW YORK, NEW YORK by Thomas Dyja here: http://bit.ly/39AAXO2New York, New York, New York, Thomas Dyja's sweeping account of this metamorphosis, shows it wasn't the work of a single policy, mastermind, or economic theory, nor was it a morality tale of gentrification or crime.

Instead, three New Yorks evolved in turn.

After brutal retrenchment came the dazzling Koch Renaissance and the Dinkins years that left the city's liberal traditions battered but laid the foundation for the safe streets and dotcom excess of Giuliani's Reformation in the ‘90s.

Then the planes hit on 9/11.

The shaky city handed itself over to Bloomberg who merged City Hall into his personal empire, launching its Reimagination.

From Hip Hop crews to Wall Street bankers, D.V.

To Jay-Z, Dyja weaves New Yorkers famous, infamous, and unknown—Yuppies, hipsters, tech nerds, and artists; community organizers and the immigrants who made this a truly global place—into a narrative of a city creating ways of life that would ultimately change cities everywhere.