Drop Dead City(2025)

1h 43m
- Documentary

Release Date: Apr 25, 2025 | Limited

In 1975, New York City is minutes away from bankruptcy when an unlikely alliance of rookies, rivals, fixers and flexers finds common ground, and a way out.

Note: Distributed by Fear City

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Michael Rohatyn
Director

Peter Yost
Director

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Language: English

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New York City, 1975 - the greatest, grittiest city in the world 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 documentary about the New York City fiscal crisis, an overlooked episode in urban American history that saw an already crumbling city of 8 million people brought to the edge of chaos.