Andreas Sterzing, “Paolo Buggiani, Icarus” (1983) (courtesy the artist and Hunter College Art Galleries, New York) The decline of the New York City waterfront in the 1960s, followed by the near ...

The journalist’s The Gods of New York surveys the overlapping crises facing New York City in the last four years of the 1980s. Why did you focus on the final years of the 1980s? During the 2016 ...

Living in New York City requires a certain level of confidence and grit, and this was especially true during the 1980s, when drug use and crime were at an all-time high. This was a decade full of pain ...

Mr. Mahler is a staff writer for The New York Times Magazine and the author of the forthcoming book “The Gods of New York: Egotists, Idealists, Opportunists, and the Birth of the Modern City: ...

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