When New York was struck in the heart on the morning of 11 September 2001, it was not only the Twin Towers that collapsed, but the entire narrative power of the city: its wound thus exposed dethroned it from the role of capital of the western twentieth century. That story was over, and it had ended with shocking violence. Other stories had to begin, and so it was. 19 years passed and New York rebuilt itself: through the streets, money, love, people, art. Until another test hit her, a test that we all had to overcome, but which hit New York in darker colors if possible: the pandemic, it was said, was definitely killing it.
But it wasn’t true.
Through a selection of stories from different sources (books, primarily, but also TV series, musicals, documentaries, photographs, etc.) and – for the first time in the history of Maps of America – through a series of first-hand accounts produced on field (interviews, videos, reports, articles), we will go together to discover New York in these last, decisive, twenty years.
