It's a wonkish but gripping look at how New York's financial crisis of 1975 revealed a crack in the liberal dream.

In this special edition of Crime in the City, we travel back to the 1970s—a time of gangs, murders, and chaos in the heart of New York City. This is Crime in the City: The '70s, Manhattan Edition.

The revelation was made in an excerpt from his new memoir, 'I Regret Almost Everything: A MemoirFamed restaurateur Keith ...