# New York, the 1980s, and the World It Created

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Podcast: [Talk Cocktail](https://stenobird.com/podcast/talk-cocktail-15520)
Published: 2026-06-13T18:11:37+00:00
Episode link: https://jeffschechtman.substack.com/p/new-york-the-1980s-and-the-world
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## Resource

New York in the 1980s was a city in convulsion — deindustrializing, gentrifying, financializing — and the young urban professionals who flooded its trading floors and law firms weren't just a cultural moment. They were the architects of the America we live in now. Historian Dylan Gottlieb explains how the yuppie takeover of New York wrote the blueprint for today's inequality — and why we're still living inside it. Get full access to Talk Cocktail Podcast at jeffschechtman.substack.com/subscribe

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