My favorite New York tabloid, the Daily News, has an excellent enterprise section about the city’s tumultuous summer of 1977 called The Bronx is Burning. Four topics are covered extensively

• Yankees — who won the World Series despite hating one another
• The Blackout — another blackout struck New York, this time with riotous results
• Son of Sam — the serial killer
• Battle for the City — the ’77 mayoral campaign, two years after “Ford to City: DROP DEAD“

The section is very extensive, so don’t try to bite it off all at once unless you have a couple of hours to kill. It will be updated a few times throughout as well.

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