Empire City

New York · Fall 1975 · Crime reporter

New York, the fall of 1975: fire escapes and water towers, steam from the manholes, a subway that runs late and painted from end to end, and a city that cannot pay its bills. You are a crime reporter on the Daily Lantern, a morning tabloid with its city room on Fourteenth Street, in a city where everybody is owed a favor by somebody and nobody is sure they want their name in the paper.