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Assignment:
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Answer this question base on The Death of a Once Great City by Kevin Baker.
1. What is the the "public city"?
2. What is the Central Park Conservancy, and what are some of the outcomes of its management of public parks and zoos?
3. Why does the new Yankee Stadium have 9,000 fewer seats for the general public?
4. What does the 9,000 fewer seats in the new stadium say about the "new" New York City?
5. What has pushed out small businesses from Manhattan neighborhoods?
6. What goup of newly arrived people to New York does the author consider the most destructie to New Yorlk? Why does he think this?
7. The author states, "New York has always attracted the wealthy and the predatory." Please explain what he means by this.
8. Where are New York's " dead zones" according to the author and why does he call them that?
9. Explain what the author means when he says, "Cities are all about loss."
10. The author ends his article by saying, "A city of tourists an empty city." Eplain why he says this and why you agree or disagree with his statement.