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Rethinking the Dual City

Queens College, CUNY, Flushing, New York

This article examines social polarization in New York City: first, as an objective condition among city neighborhoods; and second, as an issue in city politics. Data on income, poverty, housing, and crime provide little evidence of growing polarization between low- and high-income neighborhoods in the 1990s. However, the data reveal a striking contrast between the spectacular gains of core areas and the widespread stagnation and decline across low-, middle-, and high-income neighborhoods outside the core. Polarization has not proved a viable political issue because it becomes subsumed in racial/ethnic politics; yet the data suggest that progressives might prevail with a dual-city discourse that highlights the significance of polarization for neighborhoods outside the core.

Key Words: social polarization • New York City politics • dual city • neighborhood decline • urban neoliberalism

Urban Affairs Review, Vol. 42, No. 5, 659-687 (2007)
DOI: 10.1177/1078087406298118


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