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Part Two: The Man Who Ruined New York

Behind the Bastards

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Is There a Human Cost?

The argument always comes down to, when you're looking at the people who are like, defending this shit. And who cares if there's a human cost, if that cost is poor or black or brown? I'm trying to keep, i'm trying to improve the neighborhood, right? The justifications changed through time. It would ruin the look of the neighborhood if we allowed higher density housing developments to live here. Don't people deserve to have, like, their property values stay high and what not? These are the kind of things we're talking a lot these days about, like the literal notses and the literal fachists always trying to take power. But it's worth noting

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