From City Journal, Heather MacDonald on New York’s indispensable institution: The NYPD's crime-fighting sparked the city’s economic revival and is essential to its future; and Edward Glaeser on The Reinventive City: New York remains rich in the ultimate resource, human capital. A review of Wrestling with Moses: How Jane Jacobs Took On New York's Master Builder and Transformed the American City by Anthony Flint (and more and more and more and more). From Bookforum, a review essay by Philip Nobel on New York City’s urban ecology; Martha Schwendener reviews A Short Life of Trouble: Forty Years in the New York Art World by Marcia Tucker; Mark Caldwell reviews Licentious Gotham: Erotic Publishing and Its Prosecution in Nineteenth-Century New York by Donna Dennis; and David O'Neill reviews Knickerbocker: The Myth Behind New York by Elizabeth L. Bradley. A review of American Passage: The History of Ellis Island by Vincent J. Cannato. From THES, dream date with Carrie's Big (Apple): When Joanna Lewis finally got to meet the city she had watched for years on the screen, she found that, like many long-anticipated rendezvous, it did not all go to plan. Has Google found a stairway to heaven in Brooklyn? “It’s Brooklyn. Trust me that that isn’t Heaven".
