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Masters of the Universe still run New York

Violent districts have been gentrified but, 20 years after The Bonfire of the Vanities, rich white bankers are even richer, reports Paul Harris

Sunday December 16, 2007
The Observer

Robert Thompson remembers vividly what happened when he opened The Bonfire of the Vanities, the chronicle of Eighties New York that captured the city as a decaying cauldron of racial and social division, poised to boil over into disaster.

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Without Heat in the Bronx, Making Do in the Cold

 

Without Heat in the Bronx, Making Do in the Cold

By MANNY FERNANDEZ

Published: December 16, 2007
The dismal, surreal housing arrangement at 1277 Morris Avenue in the Bronx seems as much out of Kafka as Dickens.

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