{"product_id":"the-assassination-of-new-york-9780860913900","title":"The Assassination of New York","description":"\u003cp\u003eRobert 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 economyMacys  the Daily News  Citibank  Olympia and York  the Trump organizationhave 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 Yorks 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 spaceenough 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 citys establishment: Roger Starr  architect of planned shrinkage (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 tar baby  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.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"My Store","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45651749044277,"sku":"ByrdShop_0860913902","price":45.87,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0627\/8139\/0901\/files\/9780860913900.jpg?v=1781839269","url":"https:\/\/atxbooks.com\/products\/the-assassination-of-new-york-9780860913900","provider":"ATX Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}