Kim Phillips-Fein, a professor at New York University's Gallatin School of Individualized Study, is the author of Fear City: New York's Fiscal Crisis and the Rise of Austerity Politics (Metropolitan Books, 2017).

July 12, 2021

Interviews

Long Crises

An interview with Benjamin Holtzman

As New Yorkers grapple with an uncertain future, the fiscal crisis of the 1970s and its aftermath are often invoked by the press and politicians. Today, “New York in the 1970s” is shorthand for a city facing poverty and crime,…