New York Didn’t “Drop Dead” in 1975—and It Won’t Under Mamdani, Either

It was 50 years ago today that the Daily News ran the famous headline, “Ford to City: Drop Dead.” Today, a far more ...
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Fantastic films that show what life was like in 1970s New York

New York City has been front and center in hundreds of movies. That has been true since the early days of film, and it is still valid. However, the idea of “1970s New York” is the decade of the city ...
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James Wolcott: 'Lucking Out' In 1970s New York

The Vanity Fair critic was an aspiring writer when he arrived in a turbulent Manhattan in 1972. In his memoir, Lucking Out, he writes about the... James Wolcott: 'Lucking Out' In 1970s New York When ...
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He kicked off the 1970s klezmer revival. Now, he’s paying tribute to New York’s vast global music scene.

Walter Zev Feldman’s “From the Bronx to the Bosphorus: Klezmer and Other Displaced Musics of New York” is part ethnomusicological treatise and part memoir. Walter Zev Feldman, 76, is an authority on ...
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HSF Kramer's Richard Farley Sees Some Parallels Between the New York Fiscal Crisis of the 1970s and Now. And He Wrote a Book About It.

Patrick Smith interviews HSF Kramer partner Richard Farley about his new book: "Drop Dead: How a Coterie of Corrupt Politicians, Bankers, Lawyers, Spinmeisters, and Mobsters Bankrupted New York, Got ...