New York After Rent (I of III)

Benjamen Walker's Theory of Everything

Benjamen Walker & Radiotopia

Society & Culture, Personal Journals

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🗓️ 8 April 2015

⏱️ 26 minutes

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The financial crisis of September 2008 overshadows one of the most important events in recent New York History: the arrival of Airbnb. And while your host wasn’t paying attention back then either, today he is fed up with the commodification of every square inch of the city. But what if the Airbnb economy is also changing the way New York City dreams and makes art? Can it be stopped? Housing Activist Murray Cox gives us a tour of his insideairbnb project, Sociologist Richard Ocejo takes us on a jaunt through Hell Square, and legendary performance artist Penny Arcade shows us around “the big cupcake”.

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0:00.0	You are listening to Benjamin Walker's Theory of Everything.
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1:27.0	You are listening to Benjamin Walker's Theory of Everything.
1:31.0	This installment is called New York After Rent, Part 1.
1:37.0	In September of 2008, something really big went down in New York City. It was an event that changed everything.
1:47.0	And no, it's not the financial crisis.
1:51.0	The closing weekend of Rent was absolutely epic.
1:55.0	Got the last performance was alive with an energy like I've never felt in the theater anywhere in my life.
2:02.0	Just the screaming and the cheering and the crying was overwhelming.
2:07.0	When it was announced that Rent would close on September 7th 2008 Jonathan Martin entered and won a
2:16.8	contest that hooked him up with a golden ticket to the final performance and
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