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Yuppies The Bankers, Lawyers, Joggers, and Gourmands Who Conquered New York Francine Prose She finds secrets in theBy: Dylan Gottlieb Published by Harvard University Press, 2026 05 12 How the rise of Wall Street in the 1980s lured a generation of young upstarts to New York, unleashing a political and cultural transformation whose national repercussions are still felt today. Yuppies may have been a classic 1980s stereotype, but they were also a very real demographic: a wave of hundreds of thousands of highly educated young professionals that washed over New York