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I don't know that I agree with this. Closer to the truth is that within the last half-decade to a decade, the profiles of San Francisco and Washington are definitely rising, and the gap between New York and Los Angeles is shrinking. But there isn't any tangible evidence that NY is slipping. New York is still easily America's #1 city, and it's not extremely close--but LA is America's #2 and the margin from 2 to 3 is widening, while the margin from 1 to 2, and from 3 to 4/5, is shrinking...
New York is the largest city, no doubt, that's just counting people. But where is NY the leader in a particular area anymore, other than some legacy industries??
New York is the largest city, no doubt, that's just counting people. But where is NY the leader in a particular area anymore, other than some legacy industries??
LOL
NYC is the media, financial, arts capital as well as the retailing capital of the country. Also tourism and marketing play a big role as does advertising as probably a host of other things.
New York is the largest city, no doubt, that's just counting people. But where is NY the leader in a particular area anymore, other than some legacy industries??
"Legacy Industries?" ...Wall Street is still the center of American finance, and by extension, a cross-roads for international commerce and decision-making in a way that SF and LA simply aren't. This is liable to continue for the foreseeable future. At the end of the day, whether you're a corporate player in California or Idaho you still have to deal with NY and raise money on the markets there. Washington is the center of American political power, period.
Now as devil's advocate, there's an argument to be made for the soft power that comes from Silicon Valley and LA, e.g., a lot more than just Americans will be paying attention to the Oscars tonight. And it's been said that Hollywood is like America's own PR department. While *ish is hitting the fan in Washington and NYC, we can count on the world to keep just a bit of that California-dreamin' going on. Those ideas help remind the world of the best of the US and a little bit of that very naive American optimism and innocence. But the influence isn't as direct, as someone mentioned.
NYC is the media, financial, arts capital as well as the retailing capital of the country. Also tourism and marketing play a big role as does advertising as probably a host of other things.
Also the fashion capital and theater capital of the country, just to add 2 more big + obvious ones
Also the fashion capital and theater capital of the country, just to add 2 more big + obvious ones
Thanks, there are just so many more even than those but sometimes I stop writing feeling a fool defending something that stands on its own to usually a troll. Has anyone seen the construction going on at this moment and the momentum this city has? In my opinion NY is gaining not losing.
New York is the largest city, no doubt, that's just counting people. But where is NY the leader in a particular area anymore, other than some legacy industries??
Silicon Valley has eroded a lot of their legacy industries too. For instance, the NYT is still the biggest paper in America, but by far, more people are getting their news from aggregate sources like Reddit or Google News or other online sources where NYT is just one source out of many around the world. Being a media capital is less and less an actual thing as print media becomes less popular.
That just puts everything in perspective about how powerful and influential Silicon Valley is. That’s not “soft” power. That’s a huge cultural disruption to how everyone communicates and consumes, putting long established models in survival mode where everyone has to adapt.
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