NEW YORK - The City Comptroller is sounding the alarm about a major budget shortfall as a result of the crisis. 

Scott Stringer's new analysis of the 2021 budget says the city is facing an $8.7 billion budget gap.

900-thousand New Yorkers are unemployed as of this quarter.

Stringer also says the city is getting inadequate support from Washington.

He says the city has more than 170,000 cases but received only about $9,000 per COVID-19 case from the federal coronavirus relief fund.

By comparison, Montana has 457 cases and got 2.7 million per case.

Stringer addressed the city's dire economic situation on NY1's "Inside City Hall" Tuesday night. 

"New York City is the epicenter of the economy as well. We are the economy for this country and internationally. It's just unbelievable that we send $35 billion more to Washington than we get back and yet we're getting shortchanged in the stimulus package. We need that stimulus in order to meet the needs of struggling New Yorkers," Stringer said.

Stringer says we’re facing the deepest recession since the Great Depression, with historic and rapid job losses.