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Ladies and Gentlemen, the Bronx Is Burning

''Ladies and Gentlemen, the Bronx Is Burning'' is a book by Jonathan Mahler that focuses on the year 1977 in New York City. It is 'a layered account', 'kaleidoscopic', 'a braided narrative', that weaves political, cultural, and sporting threads into one narrative. It was first published in 2006, and was the basis for the television drama ''The Bronx Is Burning''.
==Origins of the phrase==
The title borrows from a fragment of television commentary. Game 2 of the 1977 World Series, about an hour before the first pitch, a fire had started in Public School 3, an abandoned elementary school a few blocks east of Yankee Stadium. By the time ABC began its broadcast at 8 in the evening, flames were licking toward the sky. The network cut to its camera in a helicopter hovering above for an aerial view. Howard Cosell then announced, "There it is, ladies and gentlemen, the Bronx is burning."〔http://nypost.com/2010/05/16/why-the-bronx-burned/〕 The main political thread of the book is provided by the 1977 mayoral election; the main cultural thread is that of the effect of the arrival of Rupert Murdoch on the scene; the main sporting thread is provided by following the fortunes of the New York Yankees.
The book begins by telling of the fiscal and ''spiritual'' crisis, as Jonathan Mahler calls it, of the city in the mid 1970s. In political cartoons New York had become a sinking ship, a zoo where the apes were employed as zookeepers, a naughty puppy swatted by a rolled-up newspaper. New York's finances were in need of attention. Less than halfway through Abraham Beame's term as mayor the city was "careering toward bankruptcy." And perhaps there were signs that the 'cultural axis' had tilted. In 1972, ''The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson'' had moved from Midtown Manhattan to Burbank, California—the cultural equivalent of the Brooklyn Dodgers move to Los Angeles—and Carson would stick the boot in by sprinkling his monologues with reminders of the city's decline. "Some Martians landed in Central Park today ... and were mugged."

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