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November 30, 2024

November 2024 Bonus Review: The Taking of New York City

the true crime that's worth your time

The crime/s
Not specific crimes, but rather the reputation of New York City for unceasing mayhem in the 1970s.

I think this is the book Rausch pitched…but is it the book he truly wanted to write? (Applause)

The story
The Taking of New York City: Crime on the Screen and in the Streets of the Big Apple in the 1970s is basically "50 flicks that helped solidify the popular conception of Noo Yawk In The Seventies as a grimy hellscape."

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