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municipal services and spending, cut city employment, froze salaries and raised bus and subway fares. The level of welfare spending was cut. Some hospitals were closed as were some branch libraries and fire stations. The labor unions helped out, by allocating much of their pension funds to the purchase of city bonds—putting the pensions at risk if bankruptcy took place.
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A statement by Mayor Beame was drafted and ready to be released on October 17, 1975, if the teachers' union did not invest $ 150 million from its pension funds in city securities. "I have been advised by the comptroller that the City of New York has insufficient cash on hand to meet debt obligations
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It failed to achieve results quickly and the state came up with a much more drastic solution: the Emergency Financial Control Board (EFCB). It was a state agency, and city officials had only two votes on the seven-member board. The EFCB took full control of the city's budget. It made drastic cuts in
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The financial crisis, high crime rates, and damage from the blackouts led to a widespread belief that New York City was in irreversible decline and beyond redemption. By the end of the 1970s, nearly a million people had left, a population loss that would not be recouped for another twenty years. To
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Ford later signed the New York City Seasonal Financing Act of 1975, a congressional bill that extended $ 2.3 billion worth of federal loans to the city for three years. In return, Congress ordered the city to increase charges for city services, to cancel a wage increase for city employees and to
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Rohatyn and the MAC directors persuaded the banks to defer the maturity of the bonds they held and to accept less interest. They also persuaded the city and state employee pension funds to buy MAC bonds to pay off the city's debts. The city government cut the number of its employees by 40,000,
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neighborhood of New York City. They are frequently cited as the first instance in American history when people in the homosexual community fought back against a government-sponsored system that persecuted sexual minorities, and they have become the defining event that marked the start of the
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struck on July 13 of that year and lasted for 25 hours, during which black and Hispanic neighborhoods fell prey to destruction and looting. Over 3,000 people were arrested, and the city's already crowded prisons were so overburdened that some suggested reopening the recently condemned
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as chairman, and a board of nine prominent citizens, eight of whom were bankers. In the meanwhile, the crisis continued to worsen, with the admitted city deficit reaching $ 750 million; municipal bonds could be sold only at a significant loss to the underwriters.
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US economic stagnation in the 1970s hit New York City particularly hard, amplified by a large movement of middle-class residents to the suburbs, which drained the city of tax revenue. In February 1975, New York City entered a serious fiscal crisis. Under mayor
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neighborhoods began to deteriorate and become centers of drugs and crime. Strip clubs and other adult businesses started filling Times Square in the late 1960s.
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During the 1960s, a gradual economic and social decay set in. A symptom of the city's waning competitiveness was the loss of both its longtime resident
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Orlebeke, Charles J. "Saving New York: The Ford Administration and the New York City Fiscal Crisis," in Alexej Ugrinsky and Bernard J. Firestone eds.
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to the suburbs. Labor unions, especially in teaching, transit, sanitation and construction, fractured over major strikes and internal racial tensions.
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Charles J. Orlebeke, "Saving New York: The Ford Administration and the New York City Fiscal Crisis," in Alexej Ugrinsky and Bernard J. Firestone eds.
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For legal and technical details see Gayle Gutekunst-Roth, "New York – A City in Crisis: Fiscal Emergency Legislation and the Constitutional Attacks."
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due today," the statement said. "This constitutes the default that we have struggled to avoid." The Beame statement was never distributed because
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were a series of spontaneous, violent demonstrations against a police raid that took place in the early morning hours of June 28, 1969, at the
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deferred the wage increases already agreed to in contracts and kept them below the level of inflation. The loans were repaid with interest.
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in the autumn of 1972, "American City Suite", chronicled, in allegorical fashion, the decline in the city's quality of life. The city's
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became known as one of the world's greatest cities. However, after peaking in population in 1950, the city began to feel the effects of
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became feared as the site of muggings and rapes. Homeless persons and drug dealers occupied boarded-up and abandoned buildings. The
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As many great cities lay in ruins after World War II, New York City assumed a new global prominence. It became the home of the
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was an indication that Moses would no longer have the free hand in the destruction of livelihoods he had enjoyed in the past.
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system was regarded as unsafe due to crime and suffered frequent mechanical breakdowns. Prostitutes and pimps frequented
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caught fire, and strong winds whirled the filth through the streets. With the schools shut down, the police engaged in a
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Anderson Avenue garbage strike. A common scene throughout New York City in 1968 during a sanitation workers strike
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in 1962, two years before it was torn down, an event which jump-started the historic preservation movement.
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complex in 1972, however, was one of the few high points of the city's history at that time. Conceived by
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Themis Chronopoulos, "The Lindsay Administration and the Sanitation Crisis of New York City, 1966–1973,"
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The 1970s were a low point in the city's modern history, and one of the lowest moments came when the
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Shelton, Jon. "Dropping Dead: Teachers, the New York City Fiscal Crisis, and Austerity" in Shelton,
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Robert Wagner and the Rise of New York City's Plebiscitary Mayoralty: The Tamer of the Tammany Tiger
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Jon Shelton, "Dropping Dead: Teachers, the New York City Fiscal Crisis, and Austerity" in Shelton,
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both moved after the 1957 season. A sports void was partially filled with the formation of the
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Edward M. Gramlich, "The New York City Fiscal Crisis: What Happened and What is to be Done?"
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A Most Unusual Strike; Bread-and-Butter Issues Transcended By Educational and Racial Concerns
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The transit strike was the first of many labor struggles. In 1968 the teachers' union (the
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reported the President's refusal to bail out the nation's largest city; he later relented.
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Puerto Rican citizen: history and political identity in twentieth-century New York City
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The Strike That Changed New York: Blacks, Whites, and the Ocean Hill-Brownsville Crisis
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along with much of eastern North America. (The city's ordeal became the subject of the
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The Bronx is Burning: 1977, Baseball, Politics, and the Battle for the Soul of a City
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The Bronx is Burning: 1977, Baseball, Politics, and the Battle for the Soul of a City
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strike. Quality of life in New York reached a nadir during this strike, as mounds of
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View of the World Trade Center under construction from Duane Street, Manhattan, 1970
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Teacher Strike! Public Education and the Making of a New American Political Order
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Donna E. Shalala, and Carol Bellamy. "State Saves a City: The New York Case, A."
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Teacher Strike! Public Education and the Making of a New American Political Order
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The cost of good intentions: New York City and the liberal experiment, 1960–1975
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Gotham unbound: How New York city was liberated from the grip of organized crime
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Levinson, Marc. "Container Shipping and the Decline of New York, 1955–1975."
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The Battle for Gotham: New York in the Shadow of Robert Moses and Jane Jacobs
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Political crisis/fiscal crisis: The collapse and revival of New York City
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Crisis in the Making: The Political Economy of New York State since 1945
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as the world's tallest building; it was displaced in turn by Chicago's
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The ungovernable city: John Lindsay and his struggle to save New York
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The Cost of Good Intentions: New York City and the Liberal Experiment
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In a built-out city, construction entails destruction. After the old
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Civil Rights in New York City: From World War II to the Giuliani Era
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Russell, Mary (December 10, 1975). "Ford Signs Bill To Aid N.Y.C.".
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Summer in the City: John Lindsay, New York, and the American Dream
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Gerald R. Ford and the Politics of Post-Watergate America - Vol. 2
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Boricuas In Gothamed: Puerto Ricans In The Making Of New York City
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Gerald R. Ford and the Politics of Post-Watergate America – Vol. 2
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Summer in the City: John Lindsay, New York, and the American Dream
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America's Mayor: John V. Lindsay and the Reinvention of New York
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was torn down, growing concern for preservation led to the 1965
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The MAC insisted that the city make major reforms, including a
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Litter is flushed from 172nd Street in Manhattan using hydrants
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angered New Yorkers by refusing to grant the city a bailout.
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drastically reduce the number of people in its workforce.
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Power Failure: New York City Politics and Policy since 1960
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an eight part, 17½ hour documentary film directed by
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The Dying City: Postwar New York and the Ideology of Fear
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Working-class New York: life and labor since World War II
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Roberta Ann Johnson, "Whistleblowing and the Police."
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Pioneros II: Puerto Ricans in New York City, 1948–1998
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By 1970, the city gained notoriety for high rates of
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Hard Times: The Adult Musical in 1970s New York City
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Jacobs, James B., Coleen Friel, and Robert Raddick.
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California Research Bureau, California State Library
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over the firings of several teachers in a school in
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Governing New York City: Politics in the Metropolis
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Emergency Financial Control Board
History of New York City
Lenape and New Netherland
New Amsterdam
British and Revolution
Federal and early American
Tammany and Consolidation
Civil War
Early 20th century
Post–World War II
Modern and post-9/11
Transportation
NYC
Bronx
Brooklyn
Queens
Staten Island
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suburbanization
Levittown
defaulting
United Nations headquarters
abstract expressionism
New York metropolitan area
Levittown, New York

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