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Trailer S2 New York: Drop Dead
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Length:
4 minutes
Released:
May 10, 2021
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Podcast episode
Description
In season two, New York Drop Dead, reporters step back into the 1970s. They go beyond the bell bottoms and disco to explore what made this decade notorious in New York’s history. A decade in which the Big Apple went by a far more sinister nickname — Fear City. The city was broken and broke. When city officials asked the federal government for a bailout — President Gerald Ford told them they were on their own. The next day the New York Daily News ran the now infamous front page headline– Ford to City: Drop Dead.
It was the decade the lights went out and The Bronx was burning. When peaceful protestors turned to making bombs, when the legendary Apollo Theater nearly closed for good and the man who saved it went to prison. The decade in which women’s rights would take center stage.
Find out how things have changed since the 1970s – and how they’ve stayed the same.
It was the decade the lights went out and The Bronx was burning. When peaceful protestors turned to making bombs, when the legendary Apollo Theater nearly closed for good and the man who saved it went to prison. The decade in which women’s rights would take center stage.
Find out how things have changed since the 1970s – and how they’ve stayed the same.
Released:
May 10, 2021
Format:
Podcast episode
Titles in the series (28)
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