Show Me a Hero
originally aired on HBO
Show Me a Hero is a 2015 American miniseries based on the 1999 nonfiction book of the same name by Lisa Belkin about Yonkers mayor (1987–89) Nick Wasicsko. The story is set between 1987 and 1994 in Yonkers, New York, a city north of New York City in Westchester County, and focuses on efforts to desegregate public housing. A federal judge ruled against Yonkers and issued a desegregation order, mandating that public housing for 200 units be built on the middle-class, mostly white, east side of Yonkers. Despite this, four councillors refused to vote to uphold the law and voted to defy the federal order. For refusing to follow the order, the city