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THE HIST OR Y OF NE W Y ORK CIT Y  33

1967 Hippie musical Hair opens on Off-Broadway, then
transfers to the Biltmore Theater
1983 Economic boom:
property prices skyrocket;
1968 20,000 anti-
establishment Trump Tower completed by
hippies gather real-estate tycoon Donald
in Central Park; Trump, who symbolizes the
student sit-ins ‘‘yuppie’’ wealth of the 1980s
at Columbia
University
1988 Twenty-five per
1971 Pop artist Andy Warhol has 1977 New York City Blackout, cent of New Yorkers
a retrospective show of his work which lasts 25 hours, live below
at the Whitney Museum triggers civil unrest the poverty line
1965 1970 1975 1980 1985
Lindsay Beame Koch
1965 1970 1975 1980 1985

1975 Federal loan saves 1981 New York
1969 The Stonewall Riots
New York from bankruptcy regains solvency
1986 Shock of corruption
1980 John Lennon is shot scandals rocks Mayor Koch’s
1973 World Trade administration; Centennial
Center completed outside his apartment on of Statue of Liberty
the Upper West Side

1987 Black Monday; the stock
market crashes

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