was tremendous. and whether that meant a guy like donald trump could get all the money he needed to build his buildings. - well, i got a good tax package, but that was a long time ago. i mean, today, the city is hot. i like to keep it that way. - the kind of new ostentatiousness about wealth and showing off wealth was especially rampant in new york city. so there was this, like, party-time, wild, and crazy new york city, and there was this becoming darker part of new york city. [dance music fades] - what we saw in the 80s was sort of that incessant appeal to white voters in different ways from different people, trying to paint particularly african americans as the root of their problems. - i always go back to send me your tired and your poor, your huddled masses yearning to breathe free. they didn t see black people coming also as huddled masses.
and the unknown about even how the disease was transmitted. the fears. all: what do we want? gay rights! when do we want em? now! - there was a lot of misinformation. so life was pretty tense. - but you also had this boom in the financial world headquartered right here in new york city. therefore, the spillover of, like, it s party time was tremendous. and whether that meant a guy like donald trump could get all the money he needed to build his buildings. - well, i got a good tax package, but that was a long time ago. i mean, today, the city is hot. i like to keep it that way. - the kind of new ostentatiousness about wealth and showing off wealth was especially rampant in new york city. so there was this, like, party-time, wild, and crazy new york city, and there was this
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