fiscal crisis

De Blasio announced an uptick in garbage pick-up after quality of life complaints.

The mayor is saying it's a day-by-day situation.

"Parts of the economy are being hammered out of existence. A lot of restaurants will fold. It's a very uneven economic impact."

A new book argues that the key to understanding our increasingly stratified metropolis can be found in the backroom dealings of 1975, as the city teetered on the brink of bankruptcy.