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Detailed explanation-1: -The city’s former grandeur can still be glimpsed through the layers of filth and decay, but only dimly. Years of unbridled development and a lack of upkeep have transformed the city into a dingy, smog-ridden dystopia, barely fit for human occupation.

Detailed explanation-2: -"Gotham” has been a nickname for New York City that first became popular in the nineteenth century; Washington Irving had first attached it to New York in the November 11, 1807, edition of his Salmagundi, a periodical which lampooned New York culture and politics.

Detailed explanation-3: -We get Batman as a detective trying to solve the riddle of a masked serial killer. It’s a dystopian world but it doesn’t feel that far off from reality. This Gotham is an underworld of mobsters and crooked cops rather than supervillains in iconic costumes.

Detailed explanation-4: -Gotham City, or simply Gotham, is an American city rife with corruption and crime, the home of its iconic protector Batman.

Detailed explanation-5: -Gotham isn’t New York, of course. It’s a fictional city that serves as a backdrop for a dude in a bat mask to play with gadgetry and beat the hell out of bad guys. But Gotham is based on New York, and I hope I can be forgiven for being a little protective when it comes even to loose depictions of my home city.