Is New York Forsaking the Poor?

A review essay on books by (1) Kim Moody, From Welfare State to Real Estate: Regime Change in New York City (New York: New Press, 2007); (2) Miriam Greenberg, Branding New York: How a City in Crisis Was Sold to the World (New York: Routledge, 2008); (3) Tom Angotti, New York for Sale: Community Planning Confronts Global Real Estate (Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2008); (4) Julian Brash, Bloomberg's New York: Class and Governance in the Luxury City (Athens University of Georgia Press, 2010); (5) Joyce Purnick, Mike Bloomberg: Money, Power and Politics (New York: Public Affairs, 2009) & (6) Francis S. Barry, The Scandal of Reform: Grand Failures of New York's Political Crusaders and the Death of Nonpartisanship (New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press, 2009).