The Death of a Once Great City
Kevin Baker | July 2018New York has been my home for more than forty years, from the year after the city’s supposed nadir in 1975, when it nearly went bankrupt. I have seen all the periods of boom and bust since, almost all of them related to the “paper economy†of finance and real estate speculation that took over the city long before it did the rest of the nation. But I have never seen what is going on now: the systematic, wholesale transformation of New York into a reserve of the obscenely wealthy and the barely here—a place increasingly devoid of the idiosyncrasy, the complexity, the opportunity, and the roiling excitement that make a city great.
As New York enters the third decade of the twenty-first century, it is in imminent danger of becoming something it has never been before: unremarkable. It is approaching a state where it is no longer a significant cultural entity but the world’s largest gated community, with a few cupcake shops here and there. For the first time in its history, New York is, well, boring.
This is not some new phenomenon but a cancer that’s been metastasizing on the city for decades now. . . .
https://harpers.org/archive/2018/07/the-death-of-new-york-city-gentrification/
New York has become the elitist Democrat's Utopia, as has San Francisco. It is the final product of decades of leftist policies implemented in a test bed of humanity. The haves and have nots living segregated on a sizable plot of land united in political thought. Perfect harmony. And all cheer when the monthly chocolate ration is increased from 25g to 20g, thanks to their Democrat overlords.
