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The Town of the Talk a Survey of New York February 19Th 2005 The town of the talk A survey of New York February 19th 2005 Republication, copying or redistribution by any means is expressly prohibited without the prior written permission of The Economist The Economist February 19th 2005 A survey of New York 1 The town of the talk Also in this section Bridging the gap The next cool places to live. Page 3 After the fall What September 11th did, and what it didn’t. Page 4 Under new management On balance, the mayor’s political liabilities are assets for the city. Page 6 Graduating Harpo The politics of education. Page 7 Whitman’s paradox New York is here to stay; New Yorkers aren’t. Page 9 After the twin-tower nightmare, New York is back on form, says Anthony Gottlieb ANDER into Avenue Q at Broad- New Yorkers is easily summed up. They Wway’s Golden Theatre and you can saved the city, and they are helping to re- see the best current incarnation of an old build its neglected neighbourhoods. In the New York favourite: a musical about the disastrous 1970s, New York lost 10% of its town that invented musicals. The show population and more or less went bank- features a group of young hopefuls who rupt. Without the inux of some 780,000 are, for now, consigned by the city’s high foreigners in that decade, things would rents to a ctitious street in an outer bor- have been much worse. And ever since ough. If today’s twenty-somethings could then, immigration has helped New York to aord a Broadway ticket, they would be avoid the decline that beset most of Amer- nodding appreciatively. ica’s other big old cities. Now immigrants The story is also true to life in another make up 43% of the city’s labour force, in- way, which it may not have intended. cluding over a third of its workers in - Some of the characters are people, some nance, insurance and property, over 40% are humanoid glove-puppets, and some in education, health and social services, are green or covered with hair. The real more than half in restaurants and hotels, New York is not quite as ethnically diverse 58% in construction and nearly two-thirds as that, but it is getting there. In the 1990s, in manufacturing. immigrants ooded into New York in greater numbers and from more countries Up and coming than ever before. The city’s population has When The Economist last surveyed New reached an all-time high of 8.1m, and a York, in 1983, it said the city needed to higher proportion of its peopleover strike more of a balance between rich 36%are foreign-born than at any time Manhattan at its core and its four partly de- since the 1920s. Los Angeles and Miami caying outer boroughs of Brooklyn, have an even larger proportion of immi- Queens, the Bronx and Staten Island. Man- grants, but New York’s are far more di- hattan is still enormously wealthy. The verse. Over half of Miami’s new arrivals residents of just 20 streets on the east side A list of sources can be found online are Cuban, and over 40% of Los Angeles’ of Central Park donated more money to www.economist.com/surveys are Mexican. In New York, the Dominican the 2004 presidential campaigns than all An audio interview with the author is at Republic provides the biggest chunk of im- but ve entire American states. But many www.economist.com/audio migrants, with a share of 13%. China comes of the most wretched neighbourhoods of next with 9%, then Jamaica with 6%. No 20 years agoin south Bronx, central A city guide to New York is at other country has more than 5%. Brooklyn and Harlemhave seen a re- www.economist.com/newyork The impact of these multifarious new markable renaissance. 1 2 A survey of New York The Economist February 19th 2005 WESTCHESTER COUNTY THE 10 km BRONX NEW 2 Most immigrants live in the outer bor- competition can be erce. YORK La NEW Guardia oughs, two-thirds of them in Queens or One big reason why New Yorkers have COUNTY JERSEY NEW YORK STATE Brooklyn, where they build businesses been able to rescue their neighbourhoods, NASSAU COUNTY STATE MANHATTAN QUEENS and often homes. Flushing in Queens, attract people and smarten up the city is a INSET whose population is now nearly two- dramatic fall in crime, which began in the JFK thirds immigrant, is a striking example. 1990s and continues apace. Once notori- BROOKLYNKINGS COUNTY Poor and virtually all white in the early ous for its threatening streets, grati-cov- STATEN 1970s, the place is now Asian and ourish- ered subways, drug-addled hobos and ISLAND ing. Across the city there has been a boom general air of menace, New York todayas RICHMOND in housing construction. From the start of its businessman-mayor, Michael Bloom- COUNTY ATLANTIC OCEAN 2000 to July 2004, permits for about berg, rightly never tires of sayingis the New York City 85,000 new units were issued, almost as safest big city in America. Now that New many as in the whole of the 1990s. And Yorkers are comfortable lolling on the side- nearly half of all new housing in the past walks, eating outside and moving around HARLEM MORNINGSIDE seven years is reckoned to be occupied by the city, the trend is self-reinforcing. They HEIGHTS E. 116th ST. immigrants or their children. have reclaimed their streets. RANDALLS E. 110th ST. & WARDS New York is once more where the LEXINGTON AVE. MADISON AVE. young want to go, whether it is to take up a Street smarts W. 106th ST. ISLAND high-paying job on Wall Street, to study, or Rudy Giuliani, who was mayor in 1994- to vegetate on Avenue Q whilst guring 2001, is usually given the credit for trans- W. 96th ST. out which of the city’s opportunities to forming the city with his introduction of MANHATTAN aim for. New York University is now the zero-tolerance policing. He did indeed W. 86th ST. UPPER most popular in America, according to a demonstrate that crime can be driven Central EAST SIDE survey of college hopefuls by the Princeton down and kept down. He showed that the UPPER Park E. 79th ST. Review in 2004. Its number of applicants city was manageable, which was a great WEST SIDE for undergraduate courses more than dou- legacy to leave. But the conquest of crime W. 72nd ST. PARK AVE. 2nd AVE. 3rd AVE. bled from 1995 to 2004. More graduates did not happen quite as New Yorkers think 1st AVE. from America’s top business schools go to they remember it. The virtuous cycle was New York than to any other city. For the started when David Dinkins, a black for- ROOSEVELT ISLAND less well-heeled, a little creativity may be mer mayor who is now rarely credited 1 E. 59th ST. W. 57th ST. Queensboro 8th AVE. required to pay the rent. At a subway stop with anything, raised taxes to hire thou- 7th AVE. Bridge CLINTON 2 MIDTOWN on 57th Street, a student busker plays the sands more police in 1990-93 and crime be- MIDTOWN 6th AVE. 5th AVE. EAST Godfather theme with her saxophone gan to drop. And it was Mr Dinkins’s police WESTTHEATER DISTRICT 3 QUEENS 4 6 Queens- held sideways like a ute, to accommodate commissioner, Ray Kellynow back in the W. 42nd ST. BROADWAY 5 Midtown a well-twirled hula-hoop. The eect is a job again under Mr Bloombergwho be- 12th AVE. GARMENTGARMENT MURRAY Tunnel DISTRICTDISTRICT HILL pleasing vibrato. gan the campaign to stamp out wind- E. 34th ST. E 11th AVE. 10th AVE. 8 9th AVE. 7 a The city is bubbling with more conven- screen-washing squeegee men and s tional attractions, too. After a renovation other minor annoyances before they t R E. 23rd ST. i project that cost $858m, the Museum of turned into something nastier. It helped, v CHELSEAFLATIRON Modern Art unveiled its new building in too, that the city’s crack-cocaine epidemic GRAMERCYGRAMERCY e PARK r November. It hiked its admission charge was ending anyway in 1991. E 14th ST. from $12 to $20 but is packed. A couple of From the late 1960s to the early 1980s, GREENWICH VILLAGE weeks earlier, Jazz at Lincoln Centre lms showed the world that New York was WEST VILLAGE EAST VILLAGE H opened its concert spaces, run by Wynton steeped in sleaze and violence. The image HUDSON ST. u EAST HOUSTON ST. Marsalis, a jazz trumpeter, in the angular of the city portrayed in Midnight Cow- d s SOHO LOWER EASTWILLIAMSBURG BR. twin towers of the new Time-Warner Cen- boy, The French Connection, Death o LITTLE SIDE tre (TWC) at Columbus Circle. The TWC is Wish, Taxi Driver and Fort Apache, the n CANAL ST. ITALY the headquarters of Time-Warner, but also Bronx took time to fade. But in the 1990s TRIBECA HollandR Tunnel EAST BROADWAY houses a shopping mall (the rst real one three yawningly peaceful sitcoms broad- i CHINATOWNCIVIC M v anh Bridge e CENTER attan in Manhattan, which is causing shudders), cast a very dierent picture of the city, sup- City Brooklyn r Hall some of the most expensive apartments in planting menace with safer kinds of urban 9 FINANCIAL Bridge DISTRICT New York and two restaurants where it adventure. They were tinged with just WALL ST. NY Stock would not be hard to spend $1,000 on din- enough hedonism and cynicism to attract Exchange BROOKLYN ner for two.
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