According to award-winning journalist Adam Piore, there\u2019s a story behind every apartment sale, every building development, and each real estate transaction in New York City. In this publication Piore charts the extraordinary transformation of America\u2019s greatest city from a near-bankrupt urban combat zone into the land of Billionaires\u2019 Row and Hudson Yards\u2014a luxury playground for the global 1 percent\u2014and provides an inside look at the bombastic developers behind the biggest real estate deals of this century.\n\nThe New Kings of New York offers a behind-the-scenes picture of what it\u2019s like to operate at the highest levels of the industry, and how some of the skyline-transforming deals were accomplished. Also, featuring the larger-than-life characters behind the deals. \nJoin us when Adam Piore offers a captivating account of the world's biggest (and most disastrous) real estate transaction, as well as the pandemic of 2020 which left 95 percent of Manhattan\u2019s office spaces empty on this installment of Leonard Lopate at Large.