The Resilient City: The Economic Transformation of NYC in the 20th Century - Kenneth T. Jackson

In 1929, on the eve of the Great Depression, New York was the largest city in the world, with the busiest harbor and most productive factories anywhere.

A half century later, Gotham was on the ropes, with rising crime, a declining population and a deteriorating economy. How did the city fall so far and so fast? And what accounts for its remarkable turnaround to become a glittering metropolis since 1980?