What happens when a socialist-leaning mayor takes control of the world’s financial capital—and challenges the economic forces that have long shaped New York?
Red Mayor, Green Money explores the collision between City Hall and Wall Street through the lives of New Yorkers caught in the middle: workers struggling with rent and rising costs, small-business owners fighting to survive, financiers weighing whether New York still makes economic sense, and communities demanding a greater share of the city they keep running.
Moving from housing and transit to policing, healthcare, immigration, education, climate, culture, and the city’s global financial role, Stephen J. Darwin examines a central question: Can New York pursue a more equitable future without weakening the engine that makes it one of the world’s most powerful cities?
Part political analysis, part economic thought experiment, and part portrait of a city under pressure, Red Mayor, Green Money asks what happens when social justice, public policy, and global capital are forced into direct confrontation—and whether New York can reinvent itself without losing what keeps it on top.
©2025 Stephen J. Darwin (P)2026 Stephen J. Darwin
