Cold Quote by Matthew Desmond

Eviction riots erupted during the Depression, though the number of poor families who faced eviction each year was a fraction of what it is…

— Matthew Desmond

“In 1970 only about one in seven American families lived in neighbourhoods that were unambiguously ‘affluent’ or ‘poor’.40 By 2007 that number had risen…

— Edward Luce

“When tenements began appearing in New York City in the mid-1800s, rent in the worst slums was 30 percent higher than in uptown. In…

— Matthew Desmond

There was probably, different times [I was taking care of] 25, 50 families.

— Bernie Kosar

The Bronx, I remember, was a very poor neighborhood, but that was all that immigrants could afford at that time. Life was tough. I…

— Mildred Dresselhaus

New Yorkers are historically tough crowds.

— Mat Kearney

Not very long ago some one invented the assertion that there were only "Four Hundred" people in New York City who were really worth…

— O. Henry

“The kids from Stuyvesant and Bronx Science formed their own pale New York clique that people seemed to leave alone,”

— Michele Campbell

“The different shades of crowd, buildings and density amazed her. Hailing from a much less populated town, New York appeared like a fire cracker,…

— Kanika Bankhad

In the early '90s, New York was a pretty depressing place

— Christine Baranski

I think that New York City in the year 1900 was a very difficult place to survive.

— Chris Sullivan

Those who automatically say that the social pathology of the ghetto is due to poverty discrimination and the like cannot explain why such pathology…

— Thomas Sowell