Gotham tells the true story of what happened in New York City during the twenty years from 1993 to 2013. How did a city | dG1fNDVFWHB4MkpEejg
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00:00 People are fed up with the FED both on the federal level and on the local level
00:04 Behind the famous Manhattan skyline New York is a mess
00:10 You had to literally fear for your life. It was terrible the city wasn't safe
00:16 There was a lot of crime there was a lot of graffiti half a million serious crimes reported murders rapes robberies burglaries contests
00:29 It was just better in the 70s the consensus view was that schools didn't make a difference
00:34 1.2 million people on
00:37 Welfare it was a great sense that the city cannot work. It can't be governed. It can't function
00:43 It's going up in flames when crime kids aren't learning the schools are crumbling and I'm saying to myself like wow
00:50 How did we get here?
00:55 The early 90s was an exciting period because people are fed up with the FED both on the federal level and on the local level
01:02 People are open-minded. They're willing to talk to each other across the aisle
01:06 There's a sense that the ungovernable city is no longer ungovernable that reforms are possible
01:13 The city could be made safer. He made better to take back the streets of New York
01:18 And by focusing on the small things we disrupted bigger things from happening
01:24 And so it changed people's perception of what welfare could be a job opportunity
01:28 Not a way of life after being stuck around 50% for 20 years. It's now about 77% kids graduate on time
01:36 we had 20 years of
01:39 Giuliani and Bloomberg and the crowning glory of what we got out of those 20 years was that the streets were no longer disorderly
01:48 The result of real efforts and real ideas by real people and it didn't just happen and if you don't really understand that legacy
01:56 You're doomed to watch it fall apart before your very eyes. There was no palpable fear of
02:02 Living in any neighborhood you could take the subway at any time of night
02:07 You could send your children to the store and there was no worry about what was gonna happen by the
02:12 1990s New York was
02:15 Not just a preferred destination
02:18 But it was the capital of the world again
02:20 You