Drop Dead City: New York on the Brink in 1975

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"Drop Dead City is a fascinating documentary on the fiscal crisis and near bankruptcy of NYC in 1975. Yet, it is more than just a snapshot of that fateful year, the movie goes through how over the course of decades, NYC provided more and more government services, including generous labor contracts, with the full complicity of the large base of middle class taxpayers (until white flight took hold), the State of New York and the bankers that were financing it all. It then encapsulates how under the newly elected Mayor Abe Beame along with the independent Comptroller Harrison Goldin the financial..."