Great premise for a book. I grew up around New York and saw it change personalities. The power of the city was the authenticity of the people that lived there and now it is a world class collection of phonies. There was always some change going on in the background and there were always plenty of people that had inspirational stories. I agree with the author on a few of his points but overall he just comes off like another whiny New York loser that sees the world as everyone is picking on him. Why would anyone waste time on this book?