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WATCH: Jonathan Mahler and Peter Savodnik on ‘The Gods of New York’
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Four wild years in the 1980s completely remade NYC—and set the stage for Zohran Mamdani’s meteoric rise.

“I don’t think we should have billionaires.”

Zohran Mamdani has made a point of repeating this controversial line. But he’s running to be mayor of a city that has more billionaires than any other in the United States.

How did the Big Apple get like this? 

In Jonathan Mahler’s new book, The Gods of New York, he recalls a seismic shift between 1986 and 1990 …

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