DA LEGGERE. NEW YORK, NOW AND THEN
Una serie di articoli sulla trasformazione di New York: "Gentrification and Its Discontents. Manhattan never was what we think it was", di Benjamin Schwarz, theatlantic. "Life in New York, Then and Now", di John Podhoretz, commentary, che parla soprattutto dell'Upper West Side diventato "the most affluent shtetl the world has ever seen. One doesn’t walk a block without seeing a yarmulke; the three conservative synagogues are alive and buzzing with congregants; the neighborhood’s gans, day schools, and yeshivas are educating some 4,000 children; a dozen kosher restaurants and two kosher supermarkets profitably serve an increasingly observant community. This is genuine urban renewal, which rose from once-rank soil after the soil was, finally, properly tended and tilled and brought once again to life." E infine l'editoriale di oggi di David Brooks, "Children of the '70s", nyt.