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NYC, 1975 - the greatest, grittiest city in the world is minutes away from bankruptcy when an unlikely alliance of rooki | ...
Once you start placing orders through your in-game phone (usually via a guy named Albert Hoover), you’ll get a message with a Dead Drop location. These drops are scattered all around Hyland ...
The reason I call "Drop Dead City" wonkish is that the film isn't a seamy urban-cultural biography; it really is about the ...
Farley's new book, Drop Dead: How a Coterie of Corrupt Politicians, Bankers, Lawyers, Spinmeisters, and Mobsters Bankrupted New York, Got Bailed Out, Blamed the President, and Went Back to ...
This archaic scenario is the subject of “Drop Dead City,” a new documentary premiering at the IFC Center on Friday that is about New York City's 1975 fiscal crisis, which sent it teetering on ...
There’s a bit of a puzzle at the center of “Drop Dead City” (in theaters), the new documentary about that time New York City barely escaped bankruptcy. Michael Rohatyn, who directed the film ...
At a time when the very function of government is being destroyed from within, an extraordinary historical documentary, “Drop Dead City,” puts the workings and responsibilities of government ...
“Drop Dead City” falls into a category of documentary I think of as wonkish but gripping. Produced and directed by Peter Yost and Michael Rohatyn, the film is about the financial cataclysm ...