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A film essay contrasting the modern metropolis with its "golden age" from 1830-1930, with the participation of some of New York's leading political and cultural figures. Made at a time when the city was experiencing unprecedented real estate development on the one hand and unforeseen displacement of population and deterioration on the other. Empire City is the story of two New Yorks. The film explores the precarious coexistence of the service-based midtown Manhattan corporate headquarters with the peripheral New York of undereducated minorities living in increasing alienation.
Keywords
new york city
politics
architecture
economics
gentrification
Casts

Donald Trump
Self

Ed Koch
Self
Jane Jacobs
Self

Elia Kazan
Self

Norman Mailer
Self

Arthur Miller
Self

Jason Robards
Self - Narrator (voice)
Crews
Mead Hunt
Director of Photography
David Schmerler
Associate Producer

Michael Blackwood
Producer
Peter Brugger
Executive Producer

Philip Glass
Original Music Composer
Thomas Holaday
Sound Recordist
Ned Bastille
Editor
Frances Fitzgerald
Writer
Pamela Katz
Assistant Camera
Tom Fleischman
Sound Mixer

Michael Blackwood
Director