• FEAR CITY won the 2025 Fiorello La Guardia Book Prize
• FEAR CITY was a top ten 2017 book for Publishers Weekly
• FEAR CITY was shortlisted for the Brooklyn Public Library Literary Prize
Articles & Interviews
Private Equity, Public Poverty, The New York Review
Podcast: The History of the History of the Right
The Dig Radio: Invisible Hands w/ Kim Phillips-Fein
The Dig Radio: Fear City with Kim Phillips-Fein
E04: ‘Fear City’ – Kim Phillips-Fein on the NYC Fiscal Crisis
Since When Is It Radical to Reclaim New York for New Yorkers?, The New York Times
What Two Primaries Reveal About the Decline of Working-Class Democrats, The New York Times
The Dark Legacy of Reaganism, The New Republic
How the War on Poverty Stalled, The New Republic
A Family Business, The Nation
The People in the Shop, The Nation
I Wouldn’t Bet on the Kind of Democracy Big Business Is Selling Us, The New York Times
We Are Facing a Turning Point for New York City, The New York Times
Conspicuous Destruction, The New York Review
‘My High-Income Earners’, The New York Review
The CUNY Experiment, The New York Review
Scapegoating New York Means Ignoring Its Desperate Need, The New York Times
Fallen Angels, Jacobin
Assessing the Damage of New York City’s Budget, Jacobin
Against the Great Man Theory of Historians, Jacobin
Booked: From Welfare City to Fear City, an interview with Kim Phillips-Fein, Dissent Magazine
What’s Going on in New York?, Counterpunch
When New York City Almost Went Broke, Leonard Lopate Show
Bob Herbert’s Op-Ed TV: How New York Had Been Fear City
From 1970s New York City to the nation, the rise of austerity politics on KALW/Your Call
How Bankers & Technocrats Used The 1975 Fiscal Crisis To Permanently Reshape NYC, Gothamist
“FEAR CITY” explores how Donald Trump exploited the New York debt crisis To boost his own fortune, The Intercept
No, not again: How the fiscal crisis of the 1970s haunts the New York City-Washington relationship under Trump, New York Daily News
KIM PHILLIPS-FEIN ON THE FISCAL CRISIS AND AUSTERITY POLITICS IN NEW YORK CITY, Episode 34: Who Makes Cents