NYC Inc.: Emergent City review

Jamestown Properties, the Atlanta-based global behemoth responsible for One Times Square and Chelsea Market, takes a star turn as Robert Moses 2.0 in Kelly Anderson and Jay Arthur Sterrenberg’s Emergent City, an exhaustively lensed (over a decade in the making) fly-on-the-wall look at the myriad costs and maybe benefits of urban development with an Instagram sheen. For rather than driving out the artists to make way for the traders and tech bros (so Giuliani/Bloomberg passé), the savvy capitalists behind Sunset Park’s Industry City – New York’s largest privately owned industrial property – are actually attempting to lure them in.

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