ABSTRACT
During the post-World War II era, New York City's economic prominence reached amazing new heights. Local priorities were complicated by national and international struggles. It was fitting that a world city, which was both a cradle of liberalism and a center of capitalism, should become embroiled in the Cold War controversy over Communism. Hostility to Communists, Jews, African Americans, and New York City combined in two 1949 riots against Robeson in Peekskill, New York. From the moment he entered the House of Representatives in 1935, Marcantonio was the only congressman in "sympathy" with American Communism. In the 1940s, Gotham was caught up in Cold War conflicts. Tensions mounted and protests multiplied during the 1950s as New Yorkers argued over urban planning. Lindsay's 1969 campaign slogan acknowledged that being mayor of New York City was "the second toughest job in America." Lindsay's two terms revealed the nation's ambivalence about the civil rights movement. There are Juan Gonzalez and Pete Hamill, Journalists.
