Modern City · event 11 of 15

30 October 1975

Ford to City: Drop Dead. With the city days from bankruptcy, President Ford refuses a federal bailout. The Daily News headline becomes the defining image of New York’s fiscal collapse. The federal government relents six weeks later, and the city spends two decades recovering.

The Modern City era

  1. 27 October 1904
  2. 25 March 1911
  3. 1916
  4. 1920
  5. 23 October 1929
  6. 1 May 1931
  7. 1934
  8. 28 June 1969
  9. 1969
  10. 4 April 1973
  11. 30 October 1975
  12. 11 September 2001
  13. 29 October 2012
  14. 1 January 2017
  15. 1 March 2020

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