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Number Phenomena

In 1975 New York’s diminutive mayor asked the federal government to aid the city. Its coffers had been depleted by the fiscal short besetting every American metropolis after the 1973 Gas Crisis. President Ford refused any assistance and the NY Daily News infamously shamed Washington with the headline FORD TO CITY: DROP DEAD. The city […]

Number Mad

I moved to New York in 1976. In a stolen car. Not really stolen, but I Newton, Mass. lawyer paid me $300 to vanish his gas-guzzler. I dropped it on the Weest Side Highway, took off the plates, threw them into the Hudson, and walked away from the vehicle. I took the subway to Brooklyn […]