Reporting by Martin Weil: New York - the end of the dream? on TMC: The Big Apple in black and white.

Gentrification, rising rents and the cost per square meter, a tide of migrants: a mythical and cosmopolitan city where life costs eight times more than in France faces its own challenges.

On Wednesday, December 13, at 21:25 on TVK, there will be a documentary. In the program "Le Petit Journal" on Canal+ and then in the program "Quotidien" on TMC, co-hosted by Eric Adams, the newly elected mayor of the city whose news about the city has already become legendary.

Martin Weill, who previously worked with Jan Barthe on Canal+ and then on TF1 Group, has gained national attention thanks to his reporting from the United States, particularly during Donald Trump's candidacy for the Republican Party and then victory in the 2016 presidential election.

Like his colleague in education at the School of Journalism in Lille - Julien Clément, the young man (now 36 years old) raised his status, became a well-known personality and got popular time on TMC with his investigations.

He's back in New York City, where, since the 2008 financial crisis and the Covid-19 pandemic, some people on limited incomes have become precarious due to rising (sometimes doubling) unpaid rents and real estate prices rising 35% in two years. This issue, titled "New York, the end of the dream?" is packed with plenty of interviews with journalists and experts.

It starts with the super rich, including the inevitable top real estate agent Fredrik Eklund, who is better known not for his brief career in gay porn but for his TV reality show "Million Dollar Listing New York" from 2012 on Bravo.

You might think that Martin Weill is following in the footsteps of New York City's luxury real estate boom, exemplified by the buildings signed by famous architects on Billionaires Row ("Billionaire's Alley") on 57th Street or along the High Line, a neighborhood formerly considered crime-ridden and now the most expensive in New York City. But that's just for better contrast to the most interesting part of the documentary, which presents various situations of poverty.

So, we follow a homeless young man thrown out on the street by a landlord who sues him and is unable to pay his student loans, as well as a young actor auditioning for Broadway but working as a waiter in a restaurant and sharing a rented apartment in Manhattan with one roommate.

The third part of the documentary shows the inevitable repopulation of neighborhoods once inhabited only by Latinos and African-Americans, displaced by rising rents or the unaffordability of new construction. We'll hear from an activist born in the South Bronx: "These are white settlers.

Let's not forget the migrants who are bused into the city, where they are required by law to be granted asylum. That's why Mayor (black and Democrat) Eric Adams sparked outrage among the city's charities by announcing on Sept. 8 that the immigration crisis would "destroy New York City. "

The end of a dream or the beginning of a nightmare? Documentary "New York, the end of the dream?" (France, 2023, 72 min).