Word: manhattanization
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...MONTVILLE, N.J. — I spend my summer days in an office building in Manhattan encased in shelving filled with the literary big wigs, in a publishing house known for its publications of Pound, Bolano, Nabokov, and Sartre. But lately, all I can think about is coming home to New Jersey after work, picking up my three volume edition of Evanovich’s crime series, and reading about bounty hunter Stephanie Plum and her steamy romance with wanted criminals...
...program, and in the meantime, P.D. had elected himself the de facto social chair our intern class, organizing happy hours at local bars several nights a week. P.D. lives on the Upper East Side, which he says is one of the only four neighborhoods that exist in Manhattan. (The others are the Upper West Side, Midtown, and the Village.) Most days, P.D. dresses like he is going sailing. Pastel shirts, pastel pants, and sailboat-laden belts are the staples of his wardrobe. He went to prep school, he explained, apparently surprised that others didn't automatically understand. Everyone dressed like...
...website for the Lower Manhattan Development Corp., the government agency created after 9/11 to help redevelop Ground Zero and environs, and the first thing you'll see is a slogan that probably sounds a lot more defensive than intended: There Is a Plan for Lower Manhattan...
What's at stake? Rebuilding Ground Zero was going to be America's statement of defiance to those who attacked us, our Knute Rockne speech to the nation. Seven years later, the lack of progress isn't just keeping us from rising from the rubble in downtown Manhattan. It's showing why we're lagging in the next great challenge to American power...
...Lower Manhattan risks becoming a metaphor for America's sluggish response to our economic challenges. The nation's levees are failing. So are its sewage systems, which the environmental group American Rivers estimates will need about $390 billion worth of upgrades in the next 20 years. A recent U.S. Chamber of Commerce report reveals a litany of other problems: an overloaded rail infrastructure that needs new tracks, signals systems, tunnels and bridges. Ports that need dredging, canal locks that need replacing. While China is spending nearly 9% of its GDP - a massive investment - on infrastructure, Americans lose $9 billion...