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Bibliographic Detail
Publisher
Verso Books
Publication date
June 1, 1996
Binding
Paperback
Book category
Adult Non-Fiction
ISBN-13
9781859841556
ISBN-10
1859841554
Dimensions
1 by 6 by 9.25 in.
Weight
1.25 lbs.
Original list price
$29.95
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Summaries and Reviews
Amazon.com description: Product Description: Robert Fitch argues that, within a generation, New York City has been transformed from the richest city in the world to one of the poorest in North America. The pillars of its economyâMacyâs, the Daily News, Citibank, Olympia and York, the Trump organizationâhave cracked or collapsed. Today, the officially poor in New York number nearly 2,000,000 and more than 400,000 residents of the city are without jobs.
In this indictment of those who have wrecked New York, Robert Fitch points to the financial and real-estate elites. Their goals, he argues, have been simple and monolithic: to increase the value of the land they own by extruding low-rent workers and factories, replacing them with high-rent professionals and office buildings. The planning establishment has been able of raise the value of real estate inside the city boundaries over twenty-fold. In doing so, Fitch suggests, it effectively closed New Yorkâs deep-water port, eliminated its freight rail system, shuttered its factories and destroyed its capacity for incubating new business.
Now the real-estate values have collapsed. The city is left with 65,000,000 square feet of office spaceâenough to last, without any new building, to the middle of the twenty-first century. In pursuit of those who are responsible, Fitch arraigns the great and the bad of the cityâs establishment: Roger Starr, architect of âplanned shrinkageâ (the withdrawal of fire, police and mass transit services from black and Latino neighborhoods); the Ford Foundation, which proposed converting vast tracts of the South Bronx into a vegetable garden; City Hall fixers like John Zucotti, Herb Sturz and James Felt, who cut the deals between government and real estate by working for both sides; and the Rockefeller family, whose involuntary investment in the Rockefeller Center became a gigantic âtar baby,â nearly swallowing up their entire fortune.
Drawing on never-before-published material from the Rockefeller family archives, as well as other archival documents, this book aims to expose those responsible for the demise of New York.Â
In this indictment of those who have wrecked New York, Robert Fitch points to the financial and real-estate elites. Their goals, he argues, have been simple and monolithic: to increase the value of the land they own by extruding low-rent workers and factories, replacing them with high-rent professionals and office buildings. The planning establishment has been able of raise the value of real estate inside the city boundaries over twenty-fold. In doing so, Fitch suggests, it effectively closed New Yorkâs deep-water port, eliminated its freight rail system, shuttered its factories and destroyed its capacity for incubating new business.
Now the real-estate values have collapsed. The city is left with 65,000,000 square feet of office spaceâenough to last, without any new building, to the middle of the twenty-first century. In pursuit of those who are responsible, Fitch arraigns the great and the bad of the cityâs establishment: Roger Starr, architect of âplanned shrinkageâ (the withdrawal of fire, police and mass transit services from black and Latino neighborhoods); the Ford Foundation, which proposed converting vast tracts of the South Bronx into a vegetable garden; City Hall fixers like John Zucotti, Herb Sturz and James Felt, who cut the deals between government and real estate by working for both sides; and the Rockefeller family, whose involuntary investment in the Rockefeller Center became a gigantic âtar baby,â nearly swallowing up their entire fortune.
Drawing on never-before-published material from the Rockefeller family archives, as well as other archival documents, this book aims to expose those responsible for the demise of New York.Â
Editions
Hardcover
from Verso Books (December 1, 1993)
9780860913900 | details & prices | 6.25 × 9.50 × 1.25 in. | 1.80 lbs | List price $65.00
About: Robert Fitch argues that, within a generation, New York City has been transformed from the richest city in the world to one of the poorest in North America.
About: Robert Fitch argues that, within a generation, New York City has been transformed from the richest city in the world to one of the poorest in North America.
Paperback
Exp upd edition from Verso Books (September 30, 2004)
9781859844014 | details & prices | 320 pages | List price $20.00
About: Robert Fitch's The Assassination of New York unearthed Gotham's great secret: how its multinational banks and landowning families, led by the Rockefellers, scuttled the City's matchless port and planned the destruction of its once rich manufacturing base.
About: Robert Fitch's The Assassination of New York unearthed Gotham's great secret: how its multinational banks and landowning families, led by the Rockefellers, scuttled the City's matchless port and planned the destruction of its once rich manufacturing base.
The price comparison is for this edition
from Verso Books (June 1, 1996)
9781859841556 | details & prices | 6.00 × 9.25 × 1.00 in. | 1.25 lbs | List price $29.95
About: Robert Fitch argues that, within a generation, New York City has been transformed from the richest city in the world to one of the poorest in North America.
About: Robert Fitch argues that, within a generation, New York City has been transformed from the richest city in the world to one of the poorest in North America.
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