Welcome to Manhattan, city of the future, the dystopian future that is. Marvel at the lack of utilities, the waste of a massive city, and cab drivers who have somehow been inside a maximum security prison from twenty years before it was built. Why did the U.S. decide to wall off Manhattan and use it as a prison, how did they get this past the Port Authority, Teamsters, Mafia, and the most despised man or woman in America – the mayor of New York? Will Snake Bli All this and more covered by Pat and the Fat Man on this first part of our Patron chosen episode of Escape from New York.