The city's population plunged in the 1970s, when a fiscal crisis prompted a federal bailout. It has fought its way back since then. Everyone was going to migrate to edge cities. It was time to prepare to turn out the lights. The expectations that immigrants bring to New York have not changed.
People still see it as they once saw the American dream.
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