NYC to lay off 7 million residents as finding comes in: "N.Y.C. so costly you need to earn six figures to make middle class."

image: Cheryl Dunn
Most middle-classers refused to take the news and had to be escorted to bridges and tunnels by NYPD and Bloomberg security. Some people attempted to garnish their wages in hopes to make upper-class, or wealthy.



New York City Mayor Abe Beame with famous Daily News front page from 1975 that summed up the city's desperate situation - and Washington's tough love response - back then.

BACK THEN??!!!!

We're moving to the land of chalk drawings: