The New York Daily News ran an indelible headline in 1975. With a towering font and a bold photo of the President, it read: “Ford to City: Drop Dead.” At that time, New York City Mayor Abe Beame was ...

DROP DEAD CITY (2024) Produced & Directed by Michael Rohatyn & Peter Yost / Cinematographer: Jerry Risius / Editors: Anna Auster & Don Kleszy / Talking Heads: Charles Rangel, Donna Shalala, Herb Elish ...

A new documentary about the 1975 fiscal crisis, Drop Dead City, is entertaining to watch but dangerously misleading as history—or politics. Ad Policy Sins of the father: Drop Dead City, a documentary ...

The headline drove the point home with a blunt force particular to the Daily News: “Ford to City: Drop Dead.” The date was Oct. 30, 1975. The city, of course, was New York. And it was about to default ...

Fifty years ago today, this newspaper ran our famous front page headline “Ford to City: Drop Dead,” with President Jerry Ford saying New York City would get no help in our deepest financial crisis.