New York Times Notices Detroit Is A Tale Of Two Cities

Private industry is blooming here, even as the city’s finances have descended into wreckage, Monica Davey reports Tuesday in the New York Times.

Around the country, as businesses have recovered, the public sector has in many cases struggled and shrunk. Detroit may be the most extreme example of a city’s dual fates, public and private, diverging.

At times, the widening divide has been awkward, even tense. As private investors contemplated opening coffee bean roasters, urban gardening suppliers and fish farms, Detroit firefighters complained about shortages of equipment, suitable boots and even a dearth of toilet paper.