Building Insecurity
How violent crime helps reshape New York’s landscape
Lidija Haas

Rape New York
by Jana Leo
The Feminist Press at CUNY
$15.95 List Price
THERE’S A STORY about New York gentrification that everybody knows, in which the city gradually Disneyfies into a playground for tourists and well-heeled locals, prices rise, and crime falls. But is it true that New York has grown safer, or just an American fantasy? Spanish artist and academic Jana Leo has another question: Safer for whom? In her 2009 book, Rape New York, which describes the assault she suffered at gunpoint
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