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News & Events

Upcoming Events

February 23, 2018 — Georgetown University

March 14, 2018 — Sacred Heart University

March 29, 2018 — Discussions Across Disciplines seminar, Columbia University

April 19, 2018 — Conversations at the Cullman Center: Paperback Launch at New York Public Library
May 24, 2018 — History Talks! New York City Department of Education Social Studies Department

Past Events:
3/24, 2017: New York Institute for the Humanities
5/8, 2017: Gotham Center, 6:30 – 8 pm, The Graduate Center, CUNY
5/22, 2017: Noon at the 92nd Street Y
6/13, 2017: Brooklyn Historical Society, 6:30 pm
7/12, 2017: 6:30pm, Mid-Manhattan Library
9/22, 2017: Institute for Public Knowledge, New York University
10/11, 2017: Lehman Center for American History at Columbia University
10/17, 2017: Henry Hart Rice Forum in Urban Policy, Wagner School, New York University
10/18, 2017: Brooklyn Public Library Literary Prize, Shortlist Event, Brooklyn Historical Society
10/25, 2017: Hostos Community College
11/28, 2017: Tamiment Library, New York University

News

• FEAR CITY was a top ten 2017 book for Publishers Weekly

• FEAR CITY was shortlisted for the Brooklyn Public Library Literary Prize

Articles & Interviews

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

The Soho Memory Project

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

When the Bankers Took Manhattan: Austerity’s New York Roots: Fear City documents the slide of New York City from vibrant social democracy to neoliberal abyss, In These Times

KIM PHILLIPS-FEIN ON THE FISCAL CRISIS AND AUSTERITY POLITICS IN NEW YORK CITY, Episode 34: Who Makes Cents

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