Is New York City dying?

I'm not saying anything anyone else hasn't already said. Where did you get this information? From your own observations? From reading? NYC's police department and separate precincts keep up to date on crime statistics weekly. read more

New York was the celebration of the individual. You could be anything you wanted to be in New York. It didn't take money, or power, or influence to live the life you wanted to live. All it took was the will to be yourself, and New York would help you find a way. read more

Today it is not a dying city, and I doubt it truly was dying in 1977. It was just very sick from the overwhelmingly Progressive politics which had undermined its ability to remake itself. Since then, it has recovered, and in many ways gotten much better. My first visit to New York City was in 1976 to see Beatlemania. read more

His writing on the city has appeared in the New York Times, the New York Daily News, and online for The New Yorker and The Paris Review. As Hansbury, he is the author of The Nostalgist, a novel, and works as a psychoanalyst in private practice in New York City. read more