Empire City.

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FilmPublisher number: 6348146 | KanopyPublisher: Michael Blackwood Productions, 1985Publisher: [San Francisco, California, USA] : Kanopy Streaming, 2019Description: 1 online resource (streaming video file) (89 minutes): digital, .flv file, soundContent type:

two-dimensional moving image

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computer

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online resource

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Documentary films.

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Arthur Miller, Brooke Astor, David Rockefeller, Donald Trump, Ed Koch, Elia Kazan, Eulogo Cedeno, Felix Rohatyn, Henry Livingston, Herman Badillo, Jane Jacobs, John Davis, Joseph Papp, Louis Auchincloss, Mary Sprague, Norman Mailer, Philip Johnson, Richard Ravitch, Rita Smith, Sidney Morgenbesser, Victor GotbaumSummary: This is the story of two New Yorks. Made at a time when the city was experiencing unprecedented real estate development on the one hand and unforeseen displacement of population and deterioration on the other. The film contrasts the modern metropolis with its "golden age" from 1830-1930, with the participation of some of New York's leading political and cultural figures such as David Rockefeller, Edward Koch, Joseph Papp, Norman Mailer, Jane Jacobs, Donald Trump, Louis Auchincloss and Brooke Astor. EMPIRE CITY explores the precarious coexistence of the service-based midtown Manhattan corporate headquarters with the peripheral New York of undereducated minorities living in increasing alienation.

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Originally produced by Michael Blackwood Productions in 1985.

This is the story of two New Yorks. Made at a time when the city was experiencing unprecedented real estate development on the one hand and unforeseen displacement of population and deterioration on the other. The film contrasts the modern metropolis with its "golden age" from 1830-1930, with the participation of some of New York's leading political and cultural figures such as David Rockefeller, Edward Koch, Joseph Papp, Norman Mailer, Jane Jacobs, Donald Trump, Louis Auchincloss and Brooke Astor. EMPIRE CITY explores the precarious coexistence of the service-based midtown Manhattan corporate headquarters with the peripheral New York of undereducated minorities living in increasing alienation.

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