0.1The New Yorker Hotel at 34th Street in midtown Manhattan. Photo by Alessandro Busà, 2008.
0.2View of skyscrapers in midtown Manhattan at night. Photo by Alessandro Busà, 2014.
1.0A kid at 145th Street, Harlem, with the Esplanade Gardens, a Mitchell-Lama development of the 1960s, in the background. Photo by Alessandro Busà, 2007.
1.1View of the Apollo Theater marquee, New York, between 1946 and 1948. William P. Gottlieb Collection.
1.2The Riverside Park Community apartment complex at 3333 Broadway between West 133rd and 135th Streets, in Harlem. Photo by Alessandro Busà, 2014.
1.3The Gateway Building at 125th Street and Lexington Avenue. Photo by Alessandro Busà, 2008.
1.4Movie still from the movie Black Caesar (1973). Courtesy American International Pictures (AIP), Larco Productions.
1.5Movie still from the movie Shaft (1971). Courtesy Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM), Shaft Productions Ltd.
1.6Special 125th Street District Zoning Map. Used with permission of the New York City Department of City Planning. All rights reserved.
1.7Special 125th Street District Zoning Chart. Used with permission of the New York City Department of City Planning. All rights reserved.
1.8Construction at 5th on the Park, a luxury condominium building in Harlem built in 2007. Photo by Alessandro Busà, 2008.
1.9Vacated building with “for sale” banner at 69 East 125th Street, in 2008. The building was demolished to make way for a 12-story mixed-use building. Photo by Alessandro Busà, 2008.
1.10The vacated M&G Diner at West 125th Street. Photo by Alessandro Busà, 2014.
2.0View of buildings on Grove Street from 7th Avenue in the West Village, Manhattan. Photo by Alessandro Busà, 2014.
3.0New residential architectures surrounding the Highline Park, Manhattan. Photo by Alessandro Busà, 2014.
4.0View of Manhattan’s roofs from the top of the Hotel Gansevoort in the Meatpacking District. Photo by Alessandro Busà, 2014.
4.1Empire State Building, New York City. [View from], to Chrysler Bldg. and Queensboro Bridge, low viewpoint. Photograph by Samuel Herman Gottscho, 1875–1971. Gottscho-Schleisner Collection. Retrieved from the Library of Congress, http://www.loc.gov/pictures/item/gsc2004000010/PP/.
4.2Sponsor of Battery Bridge/World Telegram & Sun photo by C. M. Spieglitz, 1939. Retrieved from the Library of Congress, https://www.loc.gov/item/2006675178.
4.3Mrs. Jane Jacobs, chairman of the Comm. to save the West Village holds up documentary evidence at press conference at Lions Head Restaurant at Hudson & Charles Sts/World Telegram & Sun photo by Phil Stanziola, 1961. Retrieved from the Library of Congress, https://www.loc.gov/item/2008677539.
4.4Midtown West, aerial, Hudson Yards. Hudson Yards scheme by Alex Garvin. Tower design by Cesar Pelli. Renderings by Neoscape. Image courtesy of NYC2012.
4.5The Olympic Village. Design by Morphosis (Thom Mayne). Rendering by Neoscape, superimposed on aerial photograph by Alex Garvin. Image courtesy of NYC2012.
4.6Rezonings: 2002–2013. Used with permission of the New York City Department of City Planning. All rights reserved.
4.7The Williamsburg waterfront in 2014. Photo by Alessandro Busà.
4.8Shut-down storefronts in Bedford-Stuyvesant, 2007. Photo by Alessandro Busà.
4.9“Out of Business” sign at a store on Delancey Street, in the Lower East Side, 2008. Photo by Alessandro Busà.
4.10New luxury high-rise residential developments in the Lower East Side, at East Huston between Orchard, Ludlow, and Essex Streets, in 2014. Photo by Alessandro Busà.
5.0The now-demolished Bank of Coney Island with the Wonder Wheel in the background. Photo by Alessandro Busà, 2007.
5.1Coney Island, in Luna Park (between ca. 1910 and ca. 1915). Creator: Bain News Service, publisher. Part of George Grantham Bain Collection (Library of Congress). Retrieved from the Library of Congress, http://www.loc.gov/pictures/item/ggb2004009490/.
5.2Loop the Loop, Coney Island, New York, 1903. Detroit Publishing Co. Retrieved from the Library of Congress, http://www.loc.gov/pictures/item/det1994004916/PP/
5.3Stills from the movie The Warriors (1979). Courtesy Paramount Pictures.
5.4Sunbathing at the Coney Island beach in 2014. Photo by Alessandro Busà.
5.5Food stand along Surf Avenue, 2010. Photo by Alessandro Busà.
5.6Rendering: a rezoned beach, boardwalk, and amusement area at Coney Island. Courtesy of NYCEDC.
5.7Illustrative development plan. Used with permission of the New York City Department of City Planning. All rights reserved.
5.8Ticket booths standing in a desolate wasteland, Coney Island, 2008. Photo by Alessandro Busà.
5.9Rides at Luna Park by Zamperla, 2014. Photo by Alessandro Busà.
5.10IT’Sugar candy store along Surf Avenue, 2014. Photo by Alessandro Busà.
5.11Nets Shop by Adidas, Stillwell Avenue, 2014. Photo by Alessandro Busà.
6.0Giant-sized billboard advertisement along Houston Street. Photo by Alessandro Busà, 2014.
6.1A movie still from the series Sex and the City, Season 1, Episode 4. Courtesy Darren Star Productions, Home Box Office (HBO), Sex and the City Productions.
6.2Macombs Road, Bronx/World Telegram & Sun photo by Phil Stanziola, 1964. Retrieved from the Library of Congress, https://www.loc.gov/item/2006675193.
6.3World Trade Center Towers and the New York City skyline. Photo by Carol M. Highsmith, 1946. Retrieved from the Library of Congress, http://www.loc.gov/pictures/item/2011630565/.
6.4Ground Zero Memorial, public viewing platform. Adorned with flowers, letters, and patches of deceased officers, the first Ground Zero Memorial installation was removed in 2002. Photo courtesy Artaid, http://www.artaid.org/.
6.5Stills from the “This Is New York City” TV ad, 2007, designed by Bartle Bogle Hegarty. Retrieved online, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fvpEsf720o4.
6.6Stills from the “Welcome to New York” video featuring Taylor Swift’s “Welcome to New York” hit from her “1989” album. Retrieved from NYC & Company, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E_Xo6Dfr3SM.
7.0Street scene at 3rd Avenue and St. Mark’s Place. Photo by Alessandro Busà, 2014.