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A Surging Wet Tide
2009,2007
Overview
If the dry crusade retained any hope that Prohibition could ever be enforced in New York City, that dream vanished when the stock market crashed in October 1929. The national economic crisis that followed the crash brought a sudden end to the gay atmosphere of the Roaring Twenties, and in the context of the ensuing Depression, New Yorkers could only look upon continued efforts to enforce Prohibition as a cruel joke.
The Depression struck New York City harder than any place in America, leaving close to two million people out of work. Given the dire economic situation, many New Yorkers
