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Article: Adapt and survive: Making a brand new start of it in old New York
- Article from:
- The Independent on Sunday (London, England)
- Article date:
- July 5, 2009
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I love being in New York, and not just for all the usual tourist
things, fine as they are. It is more because I like the people and
always seem to have the kind of interesting conversations I could
not have anywhere else.
But New York, like the rest of the United States, has been
battered by a downturn as deep as anything since the early 1980s.
True, the city does not feel as dowdy and down and out as it did
then, partly because there has been a huge investment in its
infrastructure and partly because a generation of wealth-creation on
a massive scale has given its businesses (and many of its people)
resources that can be used to combat these tough times. The physical
fabric of the place ...