Upcoming Events
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
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