Page 36 - (DK Eyewitness) Travel Guide - New York City

34  INTRODUCING NE W Y ORK CIT Y

Modern New York City

Since the 1990s, New York has seen a dramatic drop in
its crime rate and an increase in gentrification, with
areas such as Harlem, Lower Manhattan, and Brooklyn
attracting redevelopment. Tourism and the economy
are booming as never before, even in the face of the
terrorist attacks of September 2001, which destroyed
the iconic Twin Towers; the financial crisis of 2008; and
Hurricane Sandy in 2012. This constant regeneration
is emblematic of New York’s position as an important
international cultural and financial center.
1996 Times Square is
redeveloped, and the city
becomes one of the safest and
statistically most crime-free
cities in the US

1997 Giuliani
re-elected mayor 2005 Bloomberg is
re-elected mayor

1990 David Dinkins, 2000 2002 Tribeca Film
New York’s first black Population Festival established
mayor, takes office reaches just with the support of
over 8 million Robert De Niro
1990 1995 2000 2005
Dinkins Giuliani Bloomberg
1990 1995 2000 2005
1990 Ellis Island
reopens as an 2003 Mayor
immigration 1994 New York Rangers win the Stanley Bloomberg
museum Cup, ice hockey’s biggest prize bans smoking
in bars, clubs,
and restaurants
1993 A truck bomb detonates in the basement
of World Trade Center, killing six people

2002 The lights go on in a
2001 Terrorist attack on the World Trade Center; regenerated 42nd Street,
both towers collapse. Mayor Giuliani is a great which crosses Broadway
support to the people of New York at Times Square

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