Ed Koch and the Rebuilding of New York City

Ed Koch and the Rebuilding of New York City
Author: Jonathan Soffer
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Total Pages: 526
Release: 2012-01-31
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 0231150334

In 1978, Ed Koch assumed control of a city plagued by filth, crime, bankruptcy, and racial tensions. By the end of his mayoral run in 1989 and despite the Wall Street crash of 1987, his administration had begun rebuilding neighborhoods and infrastructure. Unlike many American cities, Koch's New York was growing, not shrinking. Gentrification brought new businesses to neglected corners and converted low-end rental housing to coops and condos. Nevertheless, not all the changes were positive--AIDS, crime, homelessness, and violent racial conflict increased, marking a time of great, if somewhat uneven, transition. For better or worse, Koch's efforts convinced many New Yorkers to embrace a new political order subsidizing business, particularly finance, insurance, and real estate, and privatizing public space. Each phase of the city's recovery required a difficult choice between moneyed interests and social services, forcing Koch to be both a moderate and a pragmatist as he tried to mitigate growing economic inequality. Throughout, Koch's rough rhetoric (attacking his opponents as "crazy," "wackos," and "radicals") prompted charges of being racially divisive. The first book to recast Koch's legacy through personal and mayoral papers, authorized interviews, and oral histories, this volume plots a history of New York City through two rarely studied yet crucial decades: the bankruptcy of the 1970s and the recovery and crash of the 1980s.

Up From Zero

Up From Zero
Author: Paul Goldberger
Publisher: Random House Trade Paperbacks
Total Pages: 322
Release: 2005
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 081296795X

Explores the struggle to rebuild the site at Ground Zero, offering a social, political, cultural, and architectural history of the World Trade Center and the artistic, financial, and emotional challenges of creating a design for the site.

The Edge Becomes the Center

The Edge Becomes the Center
Author: DW Gibson
Publisher: Abrams
Total Pages: 243
Release: 2015-05-12
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 1468311875

This “generous, vigorous, and enlightening look at class and space in New York” examines the human side of gentrification—“a joy to read” (The Paris Review).For years, journalists, policymakers, critics, and historians have tried to explain just what happens when new money and new residents flow into established neighborhoods. But now, “Mr. Gibson lets the city speak for itself, and it speaks with charm, swagger and heartening resilience” (The New York Times). The Edge Becomes the Center captures, in their own words, the stories of people?brokers, buyers, sellers, renters, landlords, artists, contractors, politicians, and everyone in between?who are shaping and being shaped by the new New York City. In this extraordinary oral history, Gibson shows us what urban change looks and feels like by exposing us to the voices of the people living through it. Drawing on the plainspoken, casually authoritative tradition of Jane Jacobs and Studs Terkel, The Edge Becomes the Center is an inviting and essential portrait of the way we live now.

Power at Ground Zero

Power at Ground Zero
Author: Lynne B. Sagalyn
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Total Pages: 938
Release: 2016
Genre: Architecture
ISBN: 0190607025

The destruction of the World Trade Center complex on 9/11 set in motion a chain of events that fundamentally transformed both the United States and the wider world. In Power at Ground Zero, Lynne Sagalyn offers the definitive account of one of the greatest reconstruction projects in modern world history: the rebuilding of lower Manhattan after 9/11.

Once More to the Sky

Once More to the Sky
Author: Scott Raab
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Total Pages: 352
Release: 2021-08-31
Genre: Architecture
ISBN: 1982176148

In late 2014, One World Trade Center-- or the Freedom Tower-- opened for business. It had taken nearly ten years, cost roughly four billion dollars, and had suffered setbacks that would have most likely scuttled any other project. Today it serves as a reminder of what America is capable of when we put aside our differences and pull together for a common cause. Raab's articles appeared in the pages of Esquire between 2005 and 2015, and here are accompanied by many never-before-seen photos. -- adapted from back cover.

The Big U

The Big U
Author: Neal Stephenson
Publisher: Harper Collins
Total Pages: 322
Release: 2009-10-13
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 0061847380

The New York Times Book Review called Neal Stephenson's most recent novel "electrifying" and "hilarious". but if you want to know Stephenson was doing twenty years before he wrote the epic Cryptonomicon, it's back-to-school time. Back to The Big U, that is, a hilarious send-up of American college life starring after years our of print, The Big U is required reading for anyone interested in the early work of this singular writer.

Battle for Ground Zero

Battle for Ground Zero
Author: Elizabeth Greenspan
Publisher: Macmillan
Total Pages: 283
Release: 2013-08-20
Genre: History
ISBN: 0230341381

An assessment of the heated controversies behind the struggle to rebuild at Ground Zero draws on interviews to explore how grieving families, commercial interests, and political agendas have challenged every step of the process.

Naked and Transparent

Naked and Transparent
Author: Vladimire Calixte
Publisher: Fresh Ink Group
Total Pages: 153
Release: 2018-07-01
Genre: Self-Help
ISBN: 194786713X

Do you feel broken or lost? Are you trapped by fear, loneliness, and heartache, but unable to see a way out? Are you unhappy in your relationships, and without a solution to make things right? If you are searching for answers to all of your struggles, Vladimire Calixte’s Naked and Transparent: Six Vital Tools for Knowing Yourself and Attracting Healthy Relationships can help you reclaim your life and help you attract more love, success, peace, and joy than you’ve ever imagined! Filled with personal experiences about love, loss, and abandonment, Naked goes beyond a traditional self-help book. It is a refreshing, honest, and stimulating experience that will help you open your heart and soul, and discover a brand-new you! Part workbook and part memoir, Naked is an enjoyable yet informative must-read for women, men, and teens who suffer from low self-esteem, unworthiness, anxiety, shame, guilt, feelings of failure, and toxic relationships.