DROP DEAD CITY – Review by Diane Carson
Restricting their focus to New York City’s 1975 catastrophic fiscal crisis, documentarians Peter Yost and Michael Rohatyn blend extensive archival footage with comprehensive firsthand interviews adding informative, retrospective insights. They succeed in their goal “to honor the story and the people in it” by lucidly navigating and clearly articulating the serious financial disaster NYC Mayor Abe Beame inherited upon his election in January 1974.
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