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SUMMARY:GODS OF NEW YORK with Journalist Jonathan Mahler
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LOCATION:New Canaan Library, 151 Main Street, New Canaan, CT 06840, United
  States
ROOM: Jim & Dede Bartlett Auditorium + Community Room + Kend Kitchen
DESCRIPTION:New York, 1986: Record profits on Wall Street sent money splas
 hing across Manhattan, as thousands of New Yorkers were sleeping in the st
 reets, dying of AIDS, and nearly one-third of the city’s Black and Hisp
 anic residents were living below the poverty line. Could New York City sim
 ultaneously be the city of immigrants and culture AND the money-soaked cap
 ital of global finance?  The events of 1986 - 1989 would split the New Yo
 rk City wide open. Howard Beach. Black Monday. Tawana Brawley. The crack e
 pidemic. The birth of ACT UP. The Central Park jogger. The release of 
 Do the Right Thing. And a cast of outsized characters—Ed Koch, Donald Tr
 ump, Al Sharpton, Spike Lee, Rudy Giuliani, Larry Kramer—would compete t
 o shape the city’s future while building their own mythologies. Journal
 ist Jonathan Mahler tells a story of a city whose identity was suddenly up
  for grabs: Could it retain a civic culture—a common idea of what it m
 eant to be a New Yorker—when the rich were building a city of their own 
 and vast swaths of its citizens were losing faith in the systems meant to 
 protect them? New York City was one thing at the dawn of 1986; it would b
 e something very different as 1989 came to a close. This is the story of
  how that happened. Elm Street Books will be on site for book sales and s
 igning. Jonathan Mahler is a longtime staff writer for the New York Times
  Magazine and the author of the best-selling Ladies and Gentlemen, the Bro
 nx Is Burning, which was adapted as an ESPN mini-series, and The Challenge
 , a New York Times Notable Book. His journalism has been featured in The B
 est American Sports Writing, and has received numerous awards. He lives in
  Brooklyn.
URL:https://www.newcanaanlibrary.org/gods-of-new-york
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