ABSTRACT
In the early 1980s, as a new wave of firms began relocating white-collar facilities outside the city, local public and private officials grew increasingly worried that the new computer-communications technology was becoming a potent weapon, one that could rekindle the extensive ‘corporate exodus’ that had wrecked New York’s headquarters sector during the 1970s. As the new trend intensified, the city searched for appropriate policies to help stem this new out-migration, making a strong effort, in particular, to promote the outer boroughs as an alternative office location to Manhattan.
