Drop Dead City
Regular $15/ $11 Matinee
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Director
Michael Rohatyn, Peter YostProducer
Michael Rohatyn, Peter YostCountry
USARuntime
109 minAccessibility
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NYC, 1975 – the greatest, grittiest city on Earth is minutes away from bankruptcy when an unlikely alliance of rookies, rivals, fixers and flexers finds common ground – and a way out. DROP DEAD CITY is the first-ever feature documentary devoted to the NYC Fiscal Crisis of 1975, an extraordinary, overlooked episode in urban American history that saw an already crumbling city of 8 million people brought to the edge of bankruptcy and social chaos by a perfect storm of debt, greed, ambitious social policy and poor governance.
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