The Last Days of New York: A Reporter's True Tale of How a City Died

Progressive, Liberal Democratic Mayors Are Killing America's Greatest Cities and Hurting the People They Claim They Want to Help

A provocative history of New York City from its post WWII ups and downs, to its rebirth and growth during the late '90s and early 2000s, recovery from the great recession of 2008-2009 through the triple disaster of the pandemic, civil unrest, and collapse in revenue of 2020.

Facing a major fiscal shock due to an unforeseen pandemic, New York City's residents were stunned to find out that their leadership had already sold the store and put the fixtures in hock. Seth Barron shares the personal stories of how a corrupted political system hollowed out New York City, leaving it especially vulnerable, all in the name of equity and "fairness." Mayor Bill de Blasio, now widely appreciated as the worst mayor in the history of the city, is presented as the instrument of decline: a key symptom of the rot that expedited the city's downfall.

When, in the future, people ask how New York City fell to pieces, they can be told--quoting Hemingway--"gradually, then suddenly." New Yorkers awoke from a slumber of ease and prosperity to discover that their glorious city was not only unprepared for crisis, but that the underpinnings of its fortune had been gutted by the reckless mismanagement of a Liberal mayor and the progressive political machine that elevated him to power.

Last Days of New York: The Decline and Fall of America's Greatest City is the story of how a lifelong political operative with no private-sector experience assumed control of a one-party city where almost nobody bothers to vote, and then proceeded to loot the treasury on behalf of the labor unions, race hustlers, and connected insiders who had promoted him to power.