Escape from New York (Everyday Heroes)In 1988, the crime rate in the United States rose by more than 400 percent. New York City, the site of a massive nerve gas attack by the Soviet Union, is transformed into a maximum security prison, covering all the incarceration requirements of the United States. Sealed off from the world by a 50 foot containment wall, it is a society in and of itself. Once you go in, you never come back. As a final security measure, a nuclear bomb has been installed