Expose: New York City Once Poorer, Full of Poor People, Being Poor

An important follow-up to Upper West Side Jewish Family Found To Be “Left-Leaning”! Now we learn: New York City Once Not A Home To Just The Super-Rich, Also Full of Drugs! Oh yes. This is an amazing expose of Elena Kagan’s childhood in a Manhattan “long before Starbucks arrived” (seriously; and yes, I do think they mean “before Starbucks was invented”). Also! Did you know that “regulated rents forced many landlords to sell their buildings to tenant cooperatives”? This is a phenomenal look at history, of New York City seen through a blinding glare that obscures the very recent past to only the most vague of shapes.