"The drop in crime, the soaring cash flow inequality, the continual changeover from a metropolis of renters to a city of co-op entrepreneurs-these have little to do with 9/11," notes NYU sociologist Dalton Conley . The Dow peaked in January 2000, and the NASDAQ started its epic crash two months afterwards by summer season 2001, unemployment was soaring and the all round economic climate experienced stalled.