1970's New York City

[Radiohead]

This thread will feature pics of NYC in the 1970's. Please add pics if you have any.

First off are b/w's from the 1977 blackout. Anyone remember that? I was just a little kid. Many here probably weren't even born yet.

(UPDATE 11/09: Sorry, the b/w pics must have been deleted by the Flickr poster. I'll try to relocate them and repost ASAP)

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[Radiohead]

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[Radiohead]

Here's some non-blackout pics

1971 (courtesy of Bridgeport Mike at Flickr)

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[Radiohead]

1971 cont.

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From the top of the WTC 1977
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[Radiohead]

Below 10 photos by Richard Friedman http://www.rchrd.com/photo/

Carnegie Hall 1971
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6th Ave at Waverly Place, October 1970
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55th Street & 8th Ave October 1970
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Twilight October 1970
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8th Ave and near 45th Street October 1970
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8th St @ 6th Ave in the Village, October 1970. Is this the precursor to the Naked Cowboy?
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Greenwich Village 6th Ave @ 4th St March 1971
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Central Park March 1971
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Greenwich Ave October 1970
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Sheridan Square in the Village October 1970
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[Radiohead]

East River Drive
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La Guardia
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West Side Highway 1
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[Radiohead]

Thumbs up
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Notice the Jersey City skyline (or lack of it)
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Sunday morning jog
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Lennon in Central Park
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Dave's Restaurant in Soho
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[Radiohead]

Dave's interior
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Soho at night; dark, deserted and neglected:

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Thanks to Brooklynparrott at Flickr for all the Soho pics.

[Radiohead]

North across Canal
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Back when 42nd St was grittier and seedier
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View from Washington Square Hotel
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1972
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[BrooklynRider]

Nice postings. As a kid back then, it all seemed very nexciting.

[Luca]

I keep thinkign "Taxi Driver" and "Mean Streets" but I'm sure there was a lot of fun and just ordinary life too, obviously. I'd love to have a time machine and visit New York over a week skipping a decade each day... Say start in 1925, then 1935, 1945 and so on... Maybe visit Times Square, Wall Street, some Mid-Town hotel and Central Park, just to get the zeitgeist

[Formula86]

Very cool pics. Thanks for sharing. :)

[Fabrizio]

Thanks for these pics and the effort in posting them (I also appreciated the video thread).

Easy to forget how scruffy NYC was back then. Fun, wonderful, creative.... but man was it broken down.

[AmeriKenArtist]

ThankYouThankYou ThankYou!

[The Benniest]

Wonderful pictures! A lot of history in these pictures. :)

Thanks for sharing,
Ben

[Radiohead]

From Allen Tannenbaum:
Tribeca-
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Man,God,Law (miscell)-
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Check out all the galleries for more. I remember Lofter posting some of the club pics a few years back.

[Fahzee]

^ yes! I've been looking for Lofters post all day (screw you, real job!)

I can't find it for the life of me.....

[Radiohead]

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A grittier (some would say seedier) Times Square
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[Radiohead]

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Some tall girls:rolleyes:
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[Fabrizio]

Kids, scroll up to the shot of TimesSquare. That's 46th looking up toward 47th. Note the garbage and the grimey, falling-down look of everthing... quite a different scene today.

( "I Love My Wife" and "Bubbling Brown Sugar" place the year to be 1977 )

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[Radiohead]

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Gotta love the old cabs
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[The Benniest]

Very nice (again). I like the Ferrara cafe/bakery picture from Little Italy.

Also, the old cabs in some of the pictures are really funny. :D

Thanks for sharing,
Ben

[NoyokA]

Radiohead I have the book where you took most of these pictures from. Picked it up for a dollar I think. Its in storage right now, what's the name again?

[Radiohead]

It's NY, A Picture Book To Remember Her By, from 1978. I too picked it up for a song years ago.

[Merry]

I wonder if this is the same book, but revised.

New York A Picture Book to Remember Her By (http://cgi.ebay.com.au/NEW-YORK-A-PICTURE-BOOK-TO-REMEMBER-HER-BY-1987_W0QQitemZ310046644852QQihZ021QQcategoryZ378QQ rdZ1QQssPageNameZWD1VQQcmdZViewItemQQ_trksidZp1638 Q2em118Q2el1247)

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[Unhappy Walrus]

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Sorry if someone else pointed this out, but that guy in the middle has to be John Lennon. I'd notice him anywhere. He lived in NYC during the 70's, and loved it.

Great pictures, guys!

[Alonzo-ny]

Who is John Lennon?

[ablarc]

Comedian.

[Alonzo-ny]

Couldnt resist!

[ALAMOUDI]

thank you

[Radiohead]

I love this one, from 1977.

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[The Benniest]

Wow!:eek:

Thanks for posting that wonderful picture Radiohead.

[MidtownGuy]

When I lived in Brooklyn there was a nightclub in that handsome corner building and it was a great space inside. Thanks for bringing back some cool memories; I wonder if it's still a club.

[pianoman11686]

Couldnt resist!

(Slightly) related: Who Is the Walrus? (http://www.nytimes.com/2008/05/20/science/20walrus.html?scp=1&sq=walrus&st=nyt) :D

[Radiohead]

Here, you can see the bridge and those same buildings from a different angle.

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You can see this Watchtower building in the prior photo as well
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This is a '74 view from atop the new World Trade Center looking over the East river
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[pianoman11686]

Whenever I look at photos like these, it amazes me to think of how dense New York already was back then, and how it has only continued to get denser and denser.

[The Benniest]

More gorgeous photos. Thank you ManhattanKnight. The photos with the Manhattan and Brooklyn bridges in them are wonderful.

And that World Trade Center view = :rolleyes:

Thank you again MK --
Ben

[Radiohead]

Most are from 1974

Grand Central subway passengers
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Brooklyn
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Near Lynch Park Brooklyn
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Lexington Ave Line graffiti
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42nd St Station bruger stand
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Boy Scout leader, Bud-Stuy Brooklyn
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1973
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Shutters Island at mouth of Arthur Kill
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[The Benniest]

Thanks for the update. :)

What a change the subway cars have gone through from being graffiti covered to clean like they are now (well, a lot of them anyway).

-ben

[Radiohead]

Yeah, the 70's & 80's were the heydey of NYC graffiti "artists" (though many would call them other less distinguished names).

[Radiohead]

Manhattan 1974

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Landfill near WTC
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Williamsburg Bridge
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Lower West Side harbor
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View from Jersey City
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[Radiohead]

Brooklyn view of Manhattan Bridge
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1973 WTC almost complete
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Illegal dumping off NJ Turnpike
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108th St and Lexington. Where are the garbage men??
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There they are...at 172nd St
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Where are the police?
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Lot at upper Lexington at 105th
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Cool 70's style
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[Radiohead]

Folk dancers at South Street seaport
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From Brooklyn
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Automobile Show at NY Coliseum 1973
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From Bayonne NJ
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East River Park
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East River
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[Radiohead]

Rotting old warehouses on the Hudson
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Queensboro Bridge at 59th St
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Midtown
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Drainage outflow from WTC
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Hudson police patrol
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Landfill site of proposed Liberty State Park
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108th & Lexington
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FDR Drive
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[Radiohead]

More from 1973....

Queens Boulevard
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Departing Brooklyn Battery Tunnel
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..and entering
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Schaefer Bandstand in Central Park
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7th Ave & 8th St
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More from the '73 auto show

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[Radiohead]

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1974 view from NJ
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Houston St
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Avenue D housing project
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Downtown
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Herald Square traffic jam
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Triple parked??
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[Radiohead]

FDR Underpass
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62nd Street
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The Village
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Hackensack River in foreground
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[Radiohead]

Outside Grand Central terminal
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Motorcycles near Battery Park
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Most of the color images from 1973-74 in the last 5-6 posts come from the National Archives. Let's finish with this...

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[brianac]

Wow what a marathon.

Thanks Radiohead.

[MidtownGuy]

Great photos.
Everything was orange, yellow and brown in the 70's. All those earth tones look so wacky now.

[MrSpice]

Amazing pictures. The city looked so dirty, poor and mismanaged. It's still pretty dirty, but I would not even think of living in New York of the 70s. Looks really depressing.

[Fabrizio]

Oh it was not depressing at all. It WAS friggin' scary.

BUT it was a happening place. Music... art... genuine movements and trends. It's a better city now, nice and pleasant, but not stimulating in the way it was back then.

[smuncky]

Thanks for that post. I love these old images.

[Luca]

Brooklyn view of Manhattan Bridge
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Wow. Just...wow. What an atomospheric picture.

[NYC4Life]

Thank god the 70's was only 1 decade. This was perhaps the worst period in the history of the city. With its economic deficit and soaring crime rates and extreme poverty, this was certainly a time where no one would come and visit. So much has changed since then.

[Fabrizio]

You know guys, you really have to rethink things a bit.

People came to NYC in the 70's. They came because they truly loved the theatre, art, music. NYC was very rarified... it had nothing to do with Viking kitchen appliances. Among all of that decay was genuine art movements and gosh, to think that B'way had Bob Fosse, Michael Bennet, there was Joe Papp downtown, Sondheim was still writing new musicals, we still had Warhol, Woody Allen was doing films about NYC, you had young artists making a mark on society like Haring, Basquit. The Ramones, Patti Smith, Blondie, Laurie Anderson, Philip Glass ...Max's Kansas City, CBGB's... Studio 54...Halston was a genuine force in fashion...you still had Merce Cunningham, Martha Graham, and Paul Taylor....Tama Janowitz, Spalding Gray, Eric Bogosian and on and on... a lot of this continued into the 1980's... but today?

Who and what compares?

http://press.princeton.edu/titles/8017.html

ANOTHER way NYC was viewed and considered in the 1970's.... please watch:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0o6QKpNK9Cc

Besides decay and crime... NY was also portrayed this way:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1PLvQFoICok&feature=related

(BTW: I forgot what good actress Diane Keaton was... watch her dig into this)

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[MidtownGuy]

Thanks Fabrizio, I think it's important to keep a balanced perspective on the 1970's. It wasn't all bad by any means. I would give anything to time travel back there and experience it for myself.

[Alonzo-ny]

I was about to say the same MTG, Id love to go back and see these periods in NY history that i wish i had witnessed and are a big basis for why i love the city in the first place.

[Fabrizio]

Immagine being in NewYork City in 1978... and having someone show you this vision of the future:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o3DarGd2yE4

[MidtownGuy]

That's pathetic and revealing. It should be the line for a crazy nightclub, not a cupcake!

[Alonzo-ny]

Lord, thats shocking to me now never mind in '78.

[The Benniest]

I nearly laughed through this entire video.

That's p a t h e t i c. I'm definitely crossing Magnolia Bakery off of my "to-do" list. Lol.

[Fabrizio]

What is funny to me is that 30 years ago, those people would have been heckled. People would have thrown things at them. It looks like an old SaturdayNightLive parody. NYC.... the Village... did not attract the kind of people who would stand on line for a friggin' cupcake. Thank you very much. You went down there in search of other things...

Be that as it may, I will agree that NYC is a better city now. It could not have gone on as it was in the 1970's. And when murders are hovering at around 2,000 a year... well that speaks for itself.

BUT you can't deny that there was much more genuine creativity in the city back then. And that counts for a lot. Priorities were different. NYC still had a very special place on the cultural scene.

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[ZippyTheChimp]

You could describe the 70s as a lightbulb shining brightly just before it burns out. Luckily, someone changed the bulb.

Now we have one of those sensible fluorescent thingies.

[Fabrizio]

And how many New Yorkers did it take to change a lightbulb in the 1970's?

None of your gawd damn business!

[lofter1]

Luckily, someone changed the bulb.

When was that bulb changed?

And who should be the one to get the credit for that?

[ZippyTheChimp]

The bulb was perception.

It took a long time to screw in.

Everybody gets credit.

[Ed007Toronto]

Wow. Just...wow. What an atomospheric picture.

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[nycla3]

The iconic nadir of New York City in the 1970's...

[Radiohead]

The iconic nadir of New York City in the 1970's...

And this was a close second...
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Sorry Lofter, the red X door has been removed (for now)

[lofter1]

LINK (http://www.geocities.com/allbeautypics/Studio-54-NY-4.jpg) for the RED ^ X


(that's me , just inside the door :cool: )

[JC]

North across Canal
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Back when 42nd St was grittier and seedier
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View from Washington Square Hotel
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1972
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SHould give credit to Woody Allen's 'Manhattan' there...

[Fabrizio]

When the Empire Dinner opened, it was SUCH a big deal. Chelsea back then was deserted, but it was opened 24 hours a day... rare for the time. You could go there and hang out and the place would sometimes be empty but it was cosy and everyone knew everyone else.

[stache]

Plus you could always go inside if people were trying to bash you.

[The Benniest]

Great pictures above. http://wirednewyork.com/forum/images/icons/icon14.gif

It still amazes me that the subways used to look that bad. From what I could tell in March, they have cleaned them up dramatically. Of course, we were only on the 2, 3 trains. Are they all cleaned up or do some still have graffiti like the picture above?

[lofter1]

All the subways are very cleaned up now -- especially considering what they were like in the 70s.

Understand that almost every subway station in Manhattan has been refurbished since back then: new platforms, new tiles, new lighting, new audio systems (not to mention the new electronic turnstiles + metrocards).

The subway was really ragged back then -- and so f*'ing noisy. None of this smooth and quiet stuff we have now.

Plus you could walk between the cars, which was handy -- and open the doors for ventilation in the summer when the heat was unbearable (no AC back then either).

All in all riding the subway back then was a great + nasty experience.

[NYC4Life]

The subways have been cleaned up from grafitti, but scratchitti (carving of windows with sharp objects) and acid etching (tagging windows with acid) have taken over where grafitti left off. The whole subway system in general however; are much more cleaner and modern compared to the 70's and 80's.

[londonlawyer]

Lord, thats shocking to me now never mind in '78.


I've got to tell you, amigo, that there are some cute birds on those lines, and it's very easy to chat them up!

[Alonzo-ny]

Sounds like a plan!

[londonlawyer]

Sweet and creamy cupcake indeed!

[Oehlenschläger]

You know guys, you really have to rethink things a bit.

People came to NYC in the 70's. They came because they truly loved the theatre, art, music. NYC was very rarified... it had nothing to do with Viking kitchen appliances. Among all of that decay was genuine art movements and gosh, to think that B'way had Bob Fosse, Michael Bennet, there was Joe Papp downtown, Sondheim was still writing new musicals, we still had Warhol, Woody Allen was doing films about NYC, you had young artists making a mark on society like Haring, Basquit. The Ramones, Patti Smith, Blondie, Laurie Anderson, Philip Glass ...Max's Kansas City, CBGB's... Studio 54...Halston was a genuine force in fashion...you still had Merce Cunningham, Martha Graham, and Paul Taylor....Tama Janowitz, Spalding Gray, Eric Bogosian and on and on... a lot of this continued into the 1980's... but today?

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I'd like to add Balanchine to that list - Suzanne Farrell, also. Balanchine made "Tzigane" and "Vienna Waltzes" in the 70s. If only I was born earlier, I could have seen his last muse dance in these late-in-life masterpieces...

[Oehlenschläger]

Immagine being in NewYork City in 1978... and having someone show you this vision of the future:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o3DarGd2yE4

Honestly, I really don't think these people are strange or sad or pathetic. My sister used to wait in long lines to get Duran Duran tickets. If she had instead queued for a cupcake, I would have understood.

[cusec]

Really nice photos!

[Oehlenschläger]

Thank you, Radiohead, for the wonderful pictures. I'm especially fascinated by the Ferrybank & Tavern picture.

Does anyone here know what happened to those buildings? I assume they aren't there anymore. I'd like to know some of the history but I haven't been able to find any info. The NYTimes only has two wedding announcements and a short food review from the 1980s mentioning the Ferrybank. :(

[MidtownGuy]

Hello friend. Those buildings are still there. The Ferrybank building is very nice inside. Last time I was inside, there was a nightclub/bar. Still true to its original use, happily.:)

[Oehlenschläger]

Hello MidtownGuy:

It's nice to know that those buildings still exist; but, for some reason, I'm disappointed that the Ferrybank is still a restaurant. I was hoping it would be a dusty bookstore or a luthier (violinmaker). That's just what I imagined (hoped) it would be when I looked at the photo. Does that make any sense? :o

I searched by the address to get current info. about Ferrybank - it goes by a different name now. I also found current photos & the exterior looks very cleaned-up. This also depressed me for some reason.

Unfortunately, I could not find any info. about Tavern under the Bridge. I guess it's probably also a trendy, pristine hangout as well (?)

But one day I'd like to visit those buildings and take my own photographs. (BTW, I'm using that photo as my screen backdrop. I hope that's not illegal!) ;)

[NewYorkDoc]

There were very ugly cars.

[brianac]

Terrorist’s Release Reopens Wound of Unsolved Bombing

http://graphics8.nytimes.com/images/2008/08/10/nyregion/10laguardia.600.jpg Joyce Dopkeen for The New York Times
A BOMB’S AFTERMATH On Dec. 29, 1975, a bomb exploded at La Guardia Airport, killing 11. No arrest, or credible claim of responsibility, was ever made.

By AL BAKER (http://topics.nytimes.com/top/reference/timestopics/people/b/al_baker/index.html?inline=nyt-per)
Published: August 9, 2008

It was four days after Christmas in 1975 when the powerful bomb blew up at 6:33 p.m. in a baggage area in La Guardia Airport’s main terminal, which was jammed with holiday travelers. The bomb — equivalent to 25 sticks of dynamite — shattered plate glass windows 30 feet high, spraying glass shards like shrapnel, and hurled metal from shattered baggage carousels and coin-operated lockers.

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Zvonko Busic, left, in 1976, when he helped hijack a plane and plant a bomb.

Amid the smoke and debris, 11 people lay dead; 75 others were wounded.
It was the worst death toll from a bomb explosion in New York City since a bomb went off in a parked horse-drawn wagon on Wall Street in 1920, killing more than three dozen people and injuring hundreds. It drew condemnation from Pope Paul VI, local politicians and President Gerald R. Ford (http://topics.nytimes.com/top/reference/timestopics/people/f/gerald_rudolph_jr_ford/index.html?inline=nyt-per).

There were no credible claims of responsibility. No arrests were ever made. And though it remains one of the bloodiest, most puzzling chapters in the history of American terrorism, it has faded from public consciousness.

“It remains unsolved and almost forgotten — except by those whose loved ones were killed or maimed,” said Terence G. McTigue, a former supervisor in the Police Department’s bomb squad, who was among the first members of the force at the scene.

For those haunted victims, and for a cadre of investigators who were involved in some way in the La Guardia case, a kind of fresh pain and frustration has taken hold in recent weeks — a result of what might otherwise have seemed an unrelated event.

Late last month, Zvonko Busic, who had spent the last three decades in United States prisons, was quietly granted parole and — within days — flew back to his native Croatia, a free man.

It turns out that Mr. Busic, a self-proclaimed Croatian independence fighter who was imprisoned for his role in another 1970s terrorist attack, had been the object of suspicion of many of those who looked into the La Guardia bombing. They included Mr. McTigue and Edwin T. Dreher, who, as a deputy police chief at the time, was put in charge of solving the case as the city’s No. 1 police priority.

There was also Frank McDarby, a detective who interrogated Mr. Busic in an F.B.I. (http://topics.nytimes.com/top/reference/timestopics/organizations/f/federal_bureau_of_investigation/index.html?inline=nyt-org) office 33 years ago; the crime writer Kevin F. McMurray, who spoke with Mr. Busic for three hours in 1997 in a visitors’ room at the federal penitentiary in Lewisburg, Pa.; and Robert K. Tanenbaum, a former prosecutor from the Manhattan district attorney’s office who had nagging doubts about Mr. Busic.

Each, to some degree, had been intrigued — and even tormented — by the unsettled matter of whether Mr. Busic had played a role in the La Guardia bombing. Each, over the last two weeks, has peered back into history and wondered anew if Mr. Busic escaped punishment for one of the biggest unsolved terrorist acts in the nation.

“There is a lot of suspicion that he was involved,” Mr. Tanenbaum said.

“There was definitely conversation about that, at that time.”

He added: “It’s an unsolved case. It was a major atrocity. And I’ve always been concerned about this.”

Over the years, Mr. Busic, who is now 62, has maintained his innocence in the La Guardia bombing. He reiterated that in a statement read on Friday by his lawyer, Marc D. Blackman of Portland, Ore., in which he said he and his wife, Julienne, “to this day, have absolutely no knowledge about who did” it.

The couple, now living in a small town on the Croatian coast, was convicted of playing a role in the hijacking of a Trans World Airlines jet and, as part of the same operation, for planting a bomb in Grand Central Terminal in September 1976, 10 months after the La Guardia bombing.

That bomb killed a city police officer as he tried to defuse it at a Bronx demolition range.

“Rumors that Julie or I had something to do with the La Guardia bombing have haunted us for over 30 years,” Mr. Busic said in his statement. He added: “We would welcome a process that would allow us to put these unsupported and reckless rumors to rest once and for all. But we are only two people with no power to convene such a process. Should those with such power do so, we would fully cooperate, as I said long ago when contacted by law enforcement officials.”

Regarding his release, Mr. Busic said, “It is inconceivable to me that I would have been granted parole if there was any evidence linking me to that horrible crime. There is no way to prove a negative, of course, but I believe that my release on parole comes as close to doing that as one can get.”

A Stone-Cold Mystery

The La Guardia case — known to law enforcement officials as Lagbomb — remains an “open homicide” investigation, a police official said. It has long been eclipsed by modern acts of terrorism, including the Sept. 11 attacks, whose masterminds are well known. Unofficially, it is a stone-cold whodunit for the F.B.I. and the Police Department.

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Zvonko Busic as a recent parolee.

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Ten months after the La Guardia bombing, Terence G. McTigue was injured by a bomb linked to Zvonko Busic, a Croatian separatist.

But 33 years ago, after the bomb went off in a baggage area used jointly by T.W.A. and Delta Air Lines, it was an intense inquiry for hundreds of law enforcement officers and other personnel.

Investigators scanned passenger manifests from flights preceding the blast. They analyzed bits of fabric, parts of timepieces and other forensic clues. They tracked down two men seen running from the blast, then questioned and cleared them. They looked at the Palestine Liberation Organization (http://topics.nytimes.com/top/reference/timestopics/organizations/p/palestine_liberation_organization/index.html?inline=nyt-org) because Golda Meir, the former prime minister of Israel, had been in New York. They heard a Minneapolis police chief’s tip about a bomber in his state — but it was a dead end.

“When this happened, we got calls from all over the world,” said Mr. Dreher, the former deputy police chief. “It was just a madhouse in the beginning.”

The La Guardia bombing reinforced the notion that the city was a stage for groups seeking attention for international causes. For instance, on Jan. 24, 1975, a bomb went off at Fraunces Tavern in Lower Manhattan, killing four people. It was one of 49 bombings attributed to the Armed Forces of National Liberation, a Puerto Rican nationalist group known as the F.A.L.N., between 1974 and 1977.

The Croatian nationalist movement linked émigrés from Croatia in several parts of the globe, all of them aiming to free their home from Communist Yugoslavia.

“They were involved in multiple bombings in New York,” said Neil Herman, a retired F.B.I. agent who was a supervisor in the local Joint Terrorism Task Force.

It was not until Mr. Busic was arrested for the 1976 hijacking and Grand Central bombing — and returned to New York after his capture in Paris — that he became someone of interest to investigators still stymied in the La Guardia case.

Questioning a Suspect

Once in New York, Mr. Busic began to meet the people who would come to be gripped for decades by their suspicions about him.

Mr. Tanenbaum was a prosecutor in Robert M. Morgenthau (http://topics.nytimes.com/top/reference/timestopics/people/m/robert_m_morgenthau/index.html?inline=nyt-per)’s office, a senior member of its homicide bureau. He prosecuted self-proclaimed members of the Black Liberation Army for the killing of two police officers, as well as members of the Colombo crime family.

Mr. McTigue, a sergeant assigned to the police bomb squad in 1976, was blinded in the left eye and lost two fingers of his left hand in the explosion of the bomb planted in Grand Central. When it detonated at the bomb squad demolition range hours later, Mr. McTigue recalled, “I got hit right in the face.”

He was 41 at the time, a police officer since 1956. He got the Medal of Honor. He said he spent three months in a hospital and a decade getting “patched up — I lost count of my operations at 17. Tracheotomy. Skin grafts. The whole deal.”

Mr. McDarby, an investigator who had kept his beard from his time working narcotics operations, went to the F.B.I.’s New York offices on the night Mr. Busic was flown back from Europe.

Recalling the interrogation, Mr. McDarby, 67, said that Mr. Busic drew a picture of the bomb planted in Grand Central, but said he “did not mean for anyone to get hurt or killed.” Calling himself “the commandant,” Mr. Busic recounted how he got the ingredients for the bomb, built it with dynamite and tested it with a “lamp switch in his apartment” in Manhattan.

“After all that was said and done, he had to go to the bathroom and we had a minute break,” Mr. McDarby said. “Eddie Dreher was there and he said, ‘Get back in there with him and talk to him. You know what I want.’ He was referring to La Guardia.”

As the interrogation continued, Mr. McDarby said “inconsistencies” arose. Mr. Busic began to sweat profusely. He first said he had heard about the bombing from someone at his apartment, then said he had learned of it from repeated radio news alerts during his taxi ride home.

“I said, ‘Wait a minute, you told me a half-hour ago that the neighbor told you,’ ” said Mr. McDarby. “He said, ‘Oh, I am tired, I have not slept in four or five days.’ His lips were quivering.”

The interview was interrupted by a federal agent, who claimed he had to rush to get Mr. Busic before a federal judge, and it was never finished, Mr. McDarby said. He said the agent threatened to arrest Mr. McDarby and others if they did not release Mr. Busic; Mr. McDarby said he believes the threat arose from a turf dispute.

http://graphics8.nytimes.com/images/2008/08/10/nyregion/10laguardia2.large.jpgEddie Hausner/The New York Times
Investigators spent New Year’s Eve 1975 sifting through debris from the La Guardia explosion, the last of several bombings in New York that year.

Years later, Mr. McDarby met one night at Elaine’s (http://topics.nytimes.com/top/reference/timestopics/organizations/e/elaines/index.html?inline=nyt-org), an Upper East Side restaurant, with Charles E. Rose, a prosecutor with the United States attorney’s office for the Eastern District of New York. Mr. Rose wanted to take a fresh look at the case, Mr. McDarby said, but it never happened and Mr. Rose joined a private practice in 1994 and died four years later.

Mr. Tanenbaum, 65, interviewed Mr. Busic as part of his investigation of the hijacking and the subsequent Grand Central bombing. But he also believes that interference by the federal authorities — who ultimately charged and prosecuted Mr. Busic and others in the 1976 case — prevented any real chance to explore Mr. Busic’s possible role in the La Guardia bombing.

Today, he wishes that a state case against Mr. Busic and his comrades had been pushed.

“We know there’s a likelihood that some of Busic’s accomplices would have talked about the La Guardia bombing case, that we might have learned more about the La Guardia bombing case,” Mr. Tanenbaum said.

A Similar Pattern

Mr. McMurray, the crime writer who developed an interest in Mr. Busic, corresponded with Mr. Busic and his wife. And then he got a chance to interview him in 1997.

Mr. Busic again denied a role in the La Guardia bombing. He told Mr. McMurray, 58, that he would take a lie-detector test to prove his innocence because “he believed he was still in prison because they held him on suspicion of being the La Guardia bomber.” Mr. Busic served more than 31 years of a life term and was granted parole and deported on July 24.

Mr. McTigue, 73, who lives in Rockland County, followed Mr. Busic’s path through prison for three decades. And he was always struck by the similarities in the two bombings.

“Both bombs were in a public locker in a transportation facility, a few days after a holiday, and both were large and heavy,” Mr. McTigue said. He noted that both devices utilized dynamite and “a 9-volt battery, possibly for a lantern.”

Mr. McTigue testified several times before the United States Parole Commission in federal prisons where Mr. Busic was held, in California, Maryland, New York and three times in Lewisburg, Pa.

He did it, he said, “to make people aware of the crime he committed and also, on several occasions, to point out what I felt was his solid connection to the La Guardia incident.” Mr. McTigue said he hoped the La Guardia case would be solved.

Now, Mr. Busic is “wandering around Europe somewhere,” with his wife, according to his father-in-law, who spoke by telephone from his home in Portland but declined to provide his name. He said he was tired of the subject of his son-in-law’s suspicion in the La Guardia bombing.

“They like to dredge that up,” he said. “I don’t care what they think. If they think he did it, prove it.”

Mr. McTigue notes that a condition of Mr. Busic’s parole is that he not return to the United States.

“I’m sad that he’s out of our hands,” Mr. McTigue said. “Eleven people lost loved ones, and scores of people were injured, and no one has ever been brought to justice. That’s a terrible mark on our society and it should never be forgotten.”

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/08/10/nyregion/10laguardia.html?pagewanted=1&_r=1&ref=nyregion

Copyright 2008 (http://www.nytimes.com/ref/membercenter/help/copyright.html) The New York Times Company (http://www.nytco.com/)

[smellslikeabid]

IM loving this thread.
There are some awesome photos, i just cant imagine what it was like in the 70's, i guess that the song by the Philadelpia international all Stars " Clean it up" http://http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hSW9RfeXHWs pretty much sums up the city at the time.

Its fascinating, and shows what a turnaround has happened, it only adds to the coolness of New York though imo!

[Triborough]

Then of course there is always the faked 70s.
http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3179/2802212405_67d0f0376b.jpg (http://www.flickr.com/photos/triborough/2802212405/)

[stache]

That shirt color is not working for the '70's.

[Triborough]

That shirt color is not working for the '70's.

You want to be the one who tells Harvey Keitel that?

[stache]

Sure, why not? ;)

[scumonkey]

Dear Harvey, That shirt colour is NOT working...
neither is that little collar or that dull tie!

ps
the hair is the right length, but what about the product?!
Where are the gold chains?
You need to have a talk with someone in wardrobe;)

[stache]

Methinks the dark shirt and tie are there to hide the gut.

[Radiohead]

From Rocketcab
http://images.rocketcab.multiply.com/image/5/photos/19/500x500/5/8af3re2.jpg?et=SkQxqiMo0bOEB%2Bw7iTz5HA&nmid=64315944

http://images.rocketcab.multiply.com/image/4/photos/19/500x500/7/d557re2.jpg?et=VdBbLGOhSiEe97vmjG6v4A&nmid=64315944

http://images.rocketcab.multiply.com/image/4/photos/17/500x500/2/b814re2.jpg?et=LustBV3beNvFyWaYdyRu%2Bw&nmid=64314945

http://images.rocketcab.multiply.com/image/3/photos/18/500x500/3/5a7ere2.jpg?et=Y9%2BA4pODm8i6hCco5SCS%2Cw&nmid=64315455

http://images.rocketcab.multiply.com/image/3/photos/18/500x500/4/6bcere2.jpg?et=Njc9j8rW1LNZ%2Bld5ppKcTQ&nmid=64315455

[Radiohead]

Scenes from the Bronx, Brooklyn & Queens. Mostly '70's, a few early 80's

http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3078/2832288638_0fbfb66fa3_o.jpg

http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3263/2831452585_6a6565e2c0_o.jpg

http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3256/2832288428_9bb05ec3cf_o.jpg

http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3097/2831452421_31a79e13fb_o.jpg

http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3114/2832288508_8730c59a51_o.jpg

http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3170/2831452357_409b72b49c_o.jpg

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http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3081/2832288050_bf11846ccc_o.jpg

http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3203/2831452031_5a364f1f9c_o.jpg

http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3293/2832287932_8c0ddde148_o.jpg

[Radiohead]

http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3206/2832287890_1b082dc825_o.jpg

http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3204/2832287828_de3882be87_o.jpg

http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3209/2831451763_d9c947aaff_o.jpg

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http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3269/2832287598_590b7b143b_o.jpg

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http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3160/2832287468_232a07d4b8_o.jpg

[Triborough]

http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3160/2832287468_232a07d4b8_o.jpg

This one is not from the 1970s. The cars and white on green street signs are a dead give away. It would have to be from about 1987 onward given the vehicles and the white license plates. The vehicle in the lower right appears to be a Plymouth Sundance or Dodge Shadow, a model that did not appear until 1987.

[195Broadway]

Wow. These photos bring a flood of emotions.... good, bad, and just plain scary.
Does anyone have a photo of the burnt out cars that used to line the sides of the Cross Bronx Expressway? That is one childhood memory which will forever be seared into my brain.

Steven

[Merry]

This one is not from the 1970s. The cars and white on green street signs are a dead give away. It would have to be from about 1987 onward given the vehicles and the white license plates. The vehicle in the lower right appears to be a Plymouth Sundance or Dodge Shadow, a model that did not appear until 1987.

That photo was taken by Camilo Vergara (http://www.columbia.edu/imaging/html/browsers/camilo/camilo-browser.html) in 1989, No. 32 under Cyprus Avenue. (http://www.columbia.edu/imaging/html/browsers/camilo/NYDA93-F96.html)

[Don31]

Really great shots, thanks!

[NYC4Life]

Wow. These photos bring a flood of emotions.... good, bad, and just plain scary.
Does anyone have a photo of the burnt out cars that used to line the sides of the Cross Bronx Expressway? That is one childhood memory which will forever be seared into my brain.

Steven

East 176th Street and Boone Avenue


http://i281.photobucket.com/albums/kk210/dtoronto2008/South%20Bronx/RobertRonan3-BooneAveandCBE.jpg

[smellslikeabid]

I love these pics, of how broken New York was, just makes it all the better now!

[Schadenfrau]

I'm familiar with the neighborhood, but I don't recognize the "Bronx Place" street sign. Does anyone know if and when that was changed? And if so, what to?

[stache]

Schad I don't see the street sign. Which photo?

[brianac]

Schade, could it have been BROWN PLACE?


http://maps.google.co.uk/maps?f=q&hl=en&geocode=&q=138th+st+The+Bronx+NY&sll=53.800651,-4.064941&sspn=12.970501,39.375&ie=UTF8&ll=40.807386,-73.920468&spn=0.004052,0.009613&t=h&z=17

[195Broadway]

East 176th Street and Boone Avenue


http://i281.photobucket.com/albums/kk210/dtoronto2008/South%20Bronx/RobertRonan3-BooneAveandCBE.jpg

Thanks, NYC..... That photo is like a time machine! Dead nuts on atmosphere of the Cross Bronx back then. Think of that scene multiplied many times along the sides of the highway. Sing it, everyone: "Over the BRIDGE, and through the BRONX to grandmother's HOUSE we'd GO"

[smellslikeabid]

Scenes from the Bronx, Brooklyn & Queens. Mostly '70's, a few early 80's









http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3114/2832288508_8730c59a51_o.jpg











My god it was such a mess! Testament to how amazing it looks now! I cannot get over these pictures of squalour and decay, and how the city is so clean and tidy now (well the bits i saw!)

[NYC4Life]

Still relatively dirty, but at least not graffiti filled.

[Schadenfrau]

Thanks- Brown Place is what I was talking about. Looking at the location, just east of Willis, I must have walked by a dozen times and never noticed.

[Radiohead]

All below are from 1974 (from the Nat'l Archives)

http://media.nara.gov/media/images/15/2/15-0176a.gif

Lexington Ave subway
http://media.nara.gov/media/images/15/11/15-1081a.gif

http://media.nara.gov/media/images/15/11/15-1080a.gif


http://media.nara.gov/media/images/15/11/15-1093a.gif

http://media.nara.gov/media/images/15/12/15-1119a.gif


Penn Station
http://media.nara.gov/media/images/15/12/15-1131a.gif

Williamsburg Bridge
http://media.nara.gov/media/images/15/4/15-0361a.gif

http://media.nara.gov/media/images/15/3/15-0210a.gif

The below 2 are from 1973

Check out the taxi rates
http://media.nara.gov/media/images/10/8/10-0788a.gif

Herald Square traffic
http://media.nara.gov/media/images/10/8/10-0793a.gif

[Radiohead]

1973 cont

Garment district
http://media.nara.gov/media/images/10/8/10-0760a.gif

http://media.nara.gov/media/images/10/8/10-0761a.gif

http://media.nara.gov/media/images/10/8/10-0762a.gif

Midtown
http://media.nara.gov/media/images/9/6/09-0581a.gif

http://media.nara.gov/media/images/9/6/09-0592a.gif

Greenwich Village
http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3055/2916684941_bc0a4ed61e_o.jpg

http://media.nara.gov/media/images/10/9/10-0812a.gif

http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3176/2917573532_9554920d2a_o.jpg

http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3145/2917573296_55a385bf7b_o.jpg

http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3002/2916729841_39a4447e34_o.jpg

[smellslikeabid]

So cool, keep posting them!

[NYC4Life]

The NYC of the past, so gritty.

[Radiohead]

1976 Gay Rights March
http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3084/2920931304_151378b134_o.jpg

Lexington & 103rd
http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3096/2920931400_50eb77781f_o.jpg

Brooklyn Chase Manhattan branch, 1975. A robbery at this branch in 1972 was the premise of the Pacino classic Dog Day Afternoon.
http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3253/2920931478_2f33ab1330_o.jpg

WTC in 1970 or 71
http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3073/2920931546_7c39160745_o.jpg

Mid 70's
http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3249/2920932260_cceb166d32_o.jpg

http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3261/2920932396_43f4c84183_o.jpg

1973
http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3006/2920088215_41f87d2626_o.jpg

I thought this was late 70's, but the Mr Sloan billboard dates Village shot to 1981.
http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3150/2920932836_10584e1ae1_o.jpg

Tishman billboard shows construction is still going on
http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3292/2920089209_8e4a36c507_o.jpg

1972 Vignelli subway map had it's fans and it's detractors
http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3197/2920089273_1892716ebf_o.jpg

[Radiohead]

1973 gas lines
http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3287/2920933736_dafdccec82_o.jpg

Protest, promotion, or both
http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3108/2920933798_8da442a436_o.jpg

Pre Disney 42nd St 1974
http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3203/2920934006_4b42b86758_o.jpg

Manhattan doorway 1974
http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3025/2920089967_2810e29ef7_o.jpg

Manhattan eatery 1974
http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3079/2920934528_820d27bca5_o.jpg

Taking a break 1974
http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3184/2920934854_9598c82201_o.jpg

1972
http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3102/2920934936_824e2f74f8_o.jpg

1973
http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3277/2920090783_894230383b_o.jpg

Corbis pic of early work on the north tower
http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3134/2920935134_394fc08bf9_o.jpg

[stache]

Fantastic photos!

[NYC4Life]

What a transformation over the decades.

[lofter1]

A great shot:

http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3277/2920090783_894230383b_o.jpg

[joe25]

^ It would've been nice to see the twin towers with ones own eyes when they where built. I think they should have rebuilt them the same way shape and size except to get rid of the peephole windows and replace them with modern glass ones.

[Radiohead]

Politicking, 1970's style (from this blog....http://grayson-for-congress.blogspot.com/2008/03/1970-teenage-new-york-politics-pics.html)

Bella Abzug
http://www.midgecostanzainstitute.com/Uploads/Bella-Campaign-Poster-1970.jpg

http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2235/2932359459_00d81bfe7b_o.jpg

Basil Patterson (current NY gov David's father) on the stump running for lieutenant governer for Arthur Goldberg.

http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3152/2926680785_cc8f42de73_o.jpg

http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3246/2926680539_f0816347f3_o.jpg


Gubernatorial candidate Goldberg
http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3051/2932360071_f0ca3fb4c1_o.jpg

Another Dem candidate for governor Howard Samuels
http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3273/2932360213_ab06caa86a_o.jpg

NYC pol Paul O'Dwyer at 1970 peace rally
http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3234/2933217340_bccd6755e4_o.jpg

1970 Senate candidate Dick Ottinger
http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3254/2932359711_36647d43ea_o.jpg

Elinor Guggenheimer with Betty Friedan behind her
http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3275/2932359851_6a9a96f25b_o.jpg

http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3020/2932359493_34d4195dd9_o.jpg

[smellslikeabid]

My favourite thread on here at the mo!
Keep posting!

[Shaun_nyc]

great thread !

[195Broadway]

Gotta love that box of Bazooka bubble gum. :p
http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3152/2926680785_cc8f42de73_o.jpg

[Radiohead]

1973 collapse of Grand Central Hotel. Read more here (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grand_Central_Hotel)
http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1183/1435163805_6d7a68b2ec_b.jpg

SF artists Rhodessa Jones & Jon & Keith Raskin cross Park Ave 1976 (MrFlikker/Flickr)
http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3077/2706378317_812232d642_b.jpg


1978
http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2089/2533561490_ef34647312_b.jpg

http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3251/2533561806_2c7fe3b8b3_b.jpg

Below from 1978 (ro.man.tic/Flickr)
http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3115/2781421605_19b247690b_b.jpg

During filming of German TV movie "The Bank Robbery w/ Rutger Hauer
http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2262/2777024475_db0cd94931_b.jpg

The Village
http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3102/2770376740_70bc42b9a7_b.jpg

Midtown
http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3281/2788899296_a2e9af84e7_b.jpg

http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3184/2788036847_b6a4c8ca83_b.jpg

From WTC
http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3164/2791883521_5a2e75050a_b.jpg

[Radiohead]

1978 continued (from ro.man.tic)

http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3193/2791849731_4403a7dfda_b.jpg

http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3254/2792814308_8959e24076_b.jpg

http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3206/2791976751_9cf820fd93_b.jpg

http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3096/2795447805_0431f76c92_b.jpg

http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3163/2796320838_8f5cc22078_b.jpg

http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3269/2810529388_b1cf546428_o.jpg

Tribeca-Church & White St.
http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3204/2809681353_ec386bb967_o.jpg

Downtown
http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3164/2820705944_c53e517910_o.jpg

From Rock Center
http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3249/2820687426_118f593310_b.jpg


http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3017/2804749181_6d909b74e5_o.jpg

[Radiohead]

1978 continued

Upper East side
http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3002/2826346119_8dcefba885_b.jpg


http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3025/2839518877_916f65b21b.jpg

http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3267/2848056116_f3edf1cb0f_b.jpg

http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3184/2848138312_ab89c4266a_o.jpg

7th Ave
http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3203/2862864442_1390de7131_o.jpg

5th Ave
http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3218/2862871992_6b62983f13_b.jpg

6th Ave. The street food was better back then
http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3095/2862892282_b1c72cd6c9_b.jpg

Leaving 47th St photo
http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3183/2862913646_afab0a9e40_b.jpg

From SI Ferry
http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3290/2864410213_5dd0407f2c_o.jpg

Times Square
http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3109/2865196212_62e9c451b5_b.jpg

[Radiohead]

1978 continued

http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3021/2864366643_bb11a52858_b.jpg

Nassau St
http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3260/2865216908_52a3bdcc63_b.jpg

http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3267/2871690031_9ac9c3b79b_o.jpg

West Village Thompson St
http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3157/2872536704_4cd28a5e04_b.jpg

Outside Guggenheim
http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3248/2877212196_35d3a148cb_o.jpg

http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3270/2876405197_5d1657c97c_b.jpg

http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3153/2881233053_a7a4160eae_o.jpg

Alliance Bernstein Bldg -Ave of the Americas
http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3127/2884743658_7689d0e3de_o.jpg

Another from Rock Center
http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3133/2893141478_b0c513de00_b.jpg

[lofter1]

Terrific shots ^

For a really squalid and somewhat depressing trip down NYC's memory lane
circa 1971 -- particularly the UWS back in the day -- don't miss this early
Al Pacino film (pre-"Godfather" stardom) coming to the Film Forum after
the first of the year:

Jerry Schatzberg’s THE PANIC IN NEEDLE PARK (http://www.filmforum.org/films/panic.html)
Friday, January 30 - Thursday, February 5

http://www.filmforum.org/films/panic/panichead2_04.gif
http://www.filmforum.org/films/spacer.gifhttp://www.filmforum.org/films/panic/panichead2_09.gifhttp://www.filmforum.org/films/panic/panichead2_07.jpghttp://www.filmforum.org/films/panic/panichead2_08.gif

[NYC4Life]

Love those shots. The Village was certainly the place to be in that era.

[Radiohead]

Midtown 1973 (eralsoto-Flickr)
http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3093/2610857416_7810b32e7a_b.jpg

View from ESB 1971
http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3264/2610119943_cd1cc4b2bc_b.jpg

1973 aerial
http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3132/2611642613_0287967694_b.jpg

1970 East River view
http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3097/2904828133_6b7b278043_b.jpg

1971
http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3193/3006451034_2b5c16946f_b.jpg

1970 (from Marcelo Montecino)
http://farm1.static.flickr.com/60/198831513_0af78c1fc3_b.jpg


2 from Cortlandt St 1970 (by straatis)
http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2086/2080908081_1ae1c98934_o.jpg

http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2238/2080908155_79bc29935f_o.jpg

Mural at Houston St 1977
http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2230/2081695582_72ce487c20_o.jpg

Mid 70's
http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2419/2080908929_8f1a992314_o.jpg

[Radiohead]

1970, mostly in Times Square area (from dboo/Flickr)

http://farm1.static.flickr.com/98/239034290_f2b5e06959_o.jpg


http://farm1.static.flickr.com/79/239034315_9ac2ef3287_o.jpg

http://farm1.static.flickr.com/97/239034554_f86d0a683a_o.jpg

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http://farm1.static.flickr.com/196/491610079_0132b76c2d.jpg

http://farm1.static.flickr.com/189/491594564_f9b915d996.jpg

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http://farm1.static.flickr.com/90/241087554_1ecd6433d1_o.jpg

[Radiohead]

1970 (cont)

Greenwich Village & surrounding area
http://farm1.static.flickr.com/98/240796519_01d5ee4268_o.jpg

http://farm1.static.flickr.com/80/240796624_3b1da7585b_o.jpg

http://farm1.static.flickr.com/97/240797160_8cc8cdd140_o.jpg

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http://farm1.static.flickr.com/88/240797112_378e0c13b0_o.jpg

http://farm1.static.flickr.com/92/241753137_f93d083be8_o.jpg

http://farm1.static.flickr.com/85/241753185_ac0c58d7ee_o.jpg

Central Park
http://farm1.static.flickr.com/93/241753373_5b671924c0_o.jpg

[Radiohead]

Conversation in a Manhattan diner, 1970
http://farm1.static.flickr.com/32/50892860_3b4cf0f7f0_o.jpg

Outside the Garden 1970
http://farm1.static.flickr.com/61/189602187_4ee3e78e1f_o.jpg

From Brooklyn docks 1970
http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3200/2904774211_b587f9dbc8_b.jpg

Night view from Rock Center 1970
http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3164/2744154785_808dac2ac6_b.jpg

1970 (from 762 AK)
http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3126/2910824030_0397a53beb_o.jpg

Brooklyn 1970
http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3224/2932527952_87159fabd7_o.jpg

Broadway 1970
http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3214/2928822499_bd5eb30b67_o.jpg

Yankee Stadium 1970
http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3171/2932517652_5970535e97_o.jpg

YS renovations 1974 (w/ Phil Rizzuto)
http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3173/2771011421_6e1f2c2b49_o.jpg

http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3047/2708963196_c7a6cabcd4_o.jpg

[Radiohead]

One of the last games at the pre-renovated stadium 1973
http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3198/2771026011_f8ab31aed5_o.jpg

http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2102/2460108249_503ce23c9c_o.jpg

1977 World Series
http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3202/2771872642_9d765561ab_o.jpg

Walking off with seats prior to renovations 1973. Such an action in 2008 would have been met with an arrest.
http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3004/2708131237_933d23b647_o.jpg

http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3082/2703153178_ffd3748738_b.jpg

Knicks at the Garden 1971....pure magic. In 2008, this franchise is unwatchable.(pic by Jeffrey Gutterman)
http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3151/2611949096_2eee7b0367_o.jpg

Shea Stadium around 1970
http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3175/2949923027_f5faf98d65_b.jpg

Tom Seaver
http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3189/2949923925_03762d7a01_b.jpg

Memorial Day parade w/ the NY Skyliners 1971
http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3260/2907597398_808ba8e49f_b.jpg

http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2315/2271510958_88e981f6f3_b.jpg

[NYC4Life]

Excellent photos. Who could ever forget the '77 World Series and Reggie Jackson's 3 home runs in game 6.

[lofter1]

The film seen on the Selwyn marquis circa 1970 is being shown this weekend
as part of the ongoing "To Save and Project (http://www.moma.org/exhibitions/film_exhibitions.php?id=10344)" film series at MoMA ...

http://farm1.static.flickr.com/97/239034554_f86d0a683a_o.jpg

L'Uccello dalle piume di cristallo (The Bird with the Crystal Plumage).

Saturday, November 15, 2008, 6:00 p.m., Theater 1, T1
Sunday, November 16, 2008, 1:00 p.m., Theater 1, T1

http://content3.rm04.net/ra/2008/11/14/2271160/bird.jpg.jpg (http://sdm3.rm04.net/ctt?kn=9&m=2271160&r=NzQ4MDMzODEwS0&b=0&j=NjEzNDQ0MzES1&mt=1&rt=0)http://content3.rm04.net/ra/2008/11/14/2271160/index_files_shim.gif.gifhttp://content3.rm04.net/ra/2008/11/14/2271160/index_files_shim.gif.gif
The Bird with the Crystal Plumage.
1970. Italy/West Germany.
Written and directed by Dario Argento

1970. Italy/West Germany. 97 min. Written and directed by Dario Argento.
With Tony Musante, Eva Renzi. Argento's directorial debut is a masterpiece
of suspense, as famous for its voluptuous and symbolic use of color
(unforgettable shades of red and yellow) and music (a brilliant score by
Ennio Morricone) as it is for its blend of surreal violence, mystery, and
eroticism. Set in a modernist Rome drawn entirely from Argento's uncanny
imagination, and evoking a sense of urban alienation through shadow and
reflections, the film centers on an American writer who witnesses a brutal
assault and must uncover the identity of the assailant to prove his own
innocence. Preserved by Cineteca Nazionale, Rome. In Italian; English subtitles.

[Radiohead]

Times Square & midtown

http://i137.photobucket.com/albums/q201/montier/cotnordvuegnrale1975.jpg

http://i137.photobucket.com/albums/q201/montier/cotnordvuegnralewa1974.jpg

http://i137.photobucket.com/albums/q201/montier/Broadwaycorner46th-1974.jpg

http://i137.photobucket.com/albums/q201/montier/Broadwayarondtimessquare1978.jpg

http://i137.photobucket.com/albums/q201/montier/CotsudVueGnerale1976.jpg

http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3066/2825124937_8366a54d82_b.jpg

Bronx
http://farm1.static.flickr.com/42/97762191_a54bc4b4ef_o.jpg

WTC 5 1973
http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3099/2349267988_69e014c356_o.jpg

1975
http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3237/2867790673_b08e26181f_o.jpg

[lofter1]

Lots more sky in Times Square back then.

[NYC4Life]

Lots more porn shops also ;)

[Tectonic]

Wow the city looked so scruffy then.

[lofter1]

It was -- rough around the edges and not nearly so corporately clean.

[stache]

Total freedom. :cool:

[Radiohead]

It was -- rough around the edges and not nearly so corporately clean.

The city had a different, exciting kind of charm back then...well into the 80's. That said, beneath the veneer, it was also a bit sleazy. I remember wandering into some of those Broadway dives with friends in the mid-late 80's back when we were curious and newly legal. There were some characters in there.

Hot mop to booth #6..........:eek:

[stache]

That said, beneath the veneer, it was also a bit sleazy.


Perish the thought! :D:D:D

[Radiohead]

^Well, not that there's anything wrong with that:p

Every now and then I'll come across some pics that I just love. These are from Tony Redhead/Flickr, though I adjusted the contrast & exposure to minimize haze. These are all from 1979.

From Houston St
http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3239/3049161362_fc9878649a_o.jpg

Soho
http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3004/3049161356_0c433b9dd3_o.jpg

Mulberry & Houston
http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3015/3049161354_917a6ac037_o.jpg

Lafayette & Great Jones St
http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3222/3049161352_4fcb4fbf1a_o.jpg

Houston & Lafayette
http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3215/3049161348_31b5c0490a_o.jpg

Near Bowery & Great Jones St
http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3162/3048316323_b2ee179946_o.jpg

Bleeker & Lafayette
http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3183/3048316321_e11432929f_o.jpg

Bedford St
http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3221/3048316317_3c3ea176d8_o.jpg

E 4th Ave
http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3162/3048316311_387302a944_o.jpg

[Radiohead]

Cooper Square. Check out the gas prices; almost 30 years later we're nearing those prices again. I paid $1.67 in Virginia a few days ago.
http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3200/3046645637_f6b9b3c86f_o.jpg

A few others, not sure of the exact location.
http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3049/3048316309_4c63a0b598_o.jpg

http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3137/3046645909_a15afc0371_o.jpg

http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3014/3048316313_80c285c0bb_o.jpg

http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3244/3049161358_53af852eb0_o.jpg

[lofter1]

A few others, not sure of the exact location.


Sixth Avenue, where Houston becomes Bedford Street, looking east (SoHo on the right, Greenwich Village on the left) ...
http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3049/3048316309_4c63a0b598_o.jpg

Lafayette Street at Great Jones ...
http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3137/3046645909_a15afc0371_o.jpg

Maybe Stanton or Rivington Street near Chrystie looking east towards Allen Street ...
http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3014/3048316313_80c285c0bb_o.jpg

The north edge of SoHo, where Wooster meets Houston, looking south -- with the AT&T Building at 32 Sixth Avenue looming across Canal Street beyond the end of Wooster (where the new Kaufman Sheraton Hotel is now rising) and, of course, the two twins ...
http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3244/3049161358_53af852eb0_o.jpg

[Bronxbombers]

Thanks,thanks and thanks for all of the pictures New York City.

[Merry]

Those photos are fantastic, thanks Radiohead. I know they're from Flickr but could you please tell us who posted them. I can't seem to find them :confused:. Thanks in advance.

And thanks too, Lofter, for the locations :).

[Radiohead]

Those photos are fantastic, thanks Radiohead. I know they're from Flickr but could you please tell us who posted them. I can't seem to find them :confused:. Thanks in advance.

And thanks too, Lofter, for the locations :).

I think I did mention the Flickr poster, but you can find the originals HERE (http://www.flickr.com/photos/56277154@N00/sets/72157607846002831/). I adjusted the contrast for this board and hosted them privately, so you would not find those posted here with a search.

[Merry]

I think I did mention the Flickr poster, but you can find the originals HERE (http://www.flickr.com/photos/56277154@N00/sets/72157607846002831/). I adjusted the contrast for this board and hosted them privately, so you would not find those posted here with a search.

Ah, indeed you did, sorry, I only looked at the last page of the thread :rolleyes:.

Your obvious interest in NYC in past times is a boon to this forum and I for one really appreciate your efforts, thanks Radiohead.

[NYC4Life]

Love to see the city in the 1970's. So gritty and dirty yet, full of character.

[Radiohead]

I came across these about a year ago, then forgot about them. Fortunately I saved the page. From whiskeygonebad/Flickr (http://www.flickr.com/photos/badwsky/sets/72157594184181611/)

Brooklyn in the 1970's. Most from the Boro Park section.

1976 New Utrecht Ave
http://farm1.static.flickr.com/22/27028040_883717523c_b.jpg

Winter 1977-78 Same street as above
http://farm1.static.flickr.com/36/111830006_2dd8fc04af_b.jpg

...same store in 2006
http://farm1.static.flickr.com/76/190660161_34ecb35ba2_o.jpg

13th Ave & New Utrecht @ 54/55th Sts) 1977
http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2170/1513337866_67b0963fe0_b.jpg

Same intersection
http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2408/1513337880_672356ee6d_b.jpg

NYCTA bus 1977
http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2110/1548005222_8ebd63450b_b.jpg

50th St El 1977
http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2099/2139852912_3a865134a8_o.jpg

13th Ave 1976
http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2010/2139851900_2ae84708a9_o.jpg

Just hanging out on 57th St 1978. Gotta love that old Sabbath shirt
http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2302/2151534079_303d742a57_b.jpg

Culver Line El 36th St 1977
http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2224/2227058946_7d8c0b8c15_b.jpg

[Radiohead]

55th St 1977
http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2062/2226269685_e53243af83_b.jpg

West End El over New Utrecht 1977
http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3276/2939967591_ba3f4122fc_o.jpg

December 1977 snow
http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3089/2701404472_db7dafae75_o.jpg

Culver Line El @ 36th St (since torn down)
http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2052/2227059364_8c48fbabc1_b.jpg

From the LOC
http://memory.loc.gov/pnp/habshaer/ny/ny1200/ny1234/photos/120561pv.jpg

[lofter1]

I love New York in black & white :cool:

[NYC4Life]

1970's New York in black & white is even better.

[195Broadway]

It was good to listen to back then...

http://www.flicklives.com/Mass_Back/index.asp (http://www.flicklives.com/Mass_Back/index.asp)

On WOR, Jean Shepherd often kept me awake with tales of his childhood. (The Real player option is not working for me???, Rt click the MP3 option and save it to your desk top).... & Enjoy the memories. :) YA GOTTA LISTEN TO: " It's the anniversary of the "Great crash of 29" and Shep sings "The Bear Missed the Train" From 10/29/1974 ..... It is SO relevant to this thread and our current times.

^ Complete with commercials!!!!


It's the anniversary of the "Great Crash Of '29" and Shep sings, "The Bear Missed The Train"
Also, WABC with Ron lundy & others..... It was great stuff.

http://musicradio77.com/bignote.gif

[nycla3]

It was good to listen to...
On WOR, Jean Shepherd often kept me awake with tales of his childhood. (The Real player option is not working for me???, Rt click the MP3 option and save it to your desk top).... & Enjoy the memories. :)




Better yet, subscribe to Shep podcasts like I do:

http://shepcast.blogspot.com/

Brings me right back to the early seventies with one ear to my Viscount Transistor Radio...one slight move down the dial and I was picking up Cleveland Indians broadcasts from my suburban NJ bedroom.

[195Broadway]

Thanks, nycla!
EXCELSIOR!, YOU FATHEAD

[nycla3]

back atcha' 195...awesome, ain't it? They can't possibly know that I'm transported back to those days while I'm podcasting on the Seventh Ave. Express.

Caught Shep live, musta been 1974 or so when he did an annual show at Princeton. None of my friends at the time could appreciate Shep like I did. Make sure you listen to his Kerouac tribute show from when he died in 1969.

I'm sure you have, but if you haven't....

http://search.barnesandnoble.com/booksearch/isbnInquiry.asp?r=1&ISBN=9781557836007&ourl=Excelsior-You-Fathead%2FEugene-B-Bergmann

Paints a slightly unholier picture then we wish, but, oh well...

Meet you on Cedar Lake with a case of Blatz...

[195Broadway]

^
:cool:
Copy on the Kerouac. I'll do that tonight at work.

I met Shep when he was on his book tour for "Wanda Hickey's Night of Golden Memories".
It was at a small book store, I think in Chatham. It was summertime, hot as hell, the place had no air conditioning. Poor Shep was sweating like a pig. I walk up to meet him and he stands up from his seat, leans over the table, and rubs his sweaty head on my sweaty head!
I was speechless! I had just rubbed sweaty heads with Shep!!!! What more could a 7 year old kid want! :D

PS I was not aware of Bergmann's book. Up to now, my memories of Shep are mostly from my childhood. His radio and PBS shows being the main venues.
The book is now on my list.

[195Broadway]

Not ONE mention of Jean. Oh well....
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T_jwsrTJQBU&feature=related

[theWatusi]

neat thread

[Winola]

I love the pictures,I was only in the city a few times during the 70's and that was to see a relative in the hospital.I do remember the seediness and the grit of it though and I fell in love with it instantly.It only took me until 1985 to get there on a full time basis and until 1992 ,I enjoyed every moment I was there.

[Radiohead]

Gay Pride, early 70's style, with no shortage of bell-bottoms, afros, facial hair and bad leisure suits, hangover remnants of the 1960's. A care-free era which would peak in the late 70's, before AIDS reared it's ugly head.


http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3240/3101086075_bf4eb55186_o.jpg

http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3283/3101085865_7a1e7f964d_o.jpg

http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3162/3101085663_e67d1e5137_o.jpg

http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3183/3101922634_7f9b35f7c3_o.jpg

http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3201/3101085961_977c76c492_o.jpg

http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3237/3101922176_7170a2b943_o.jpg

http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3261/3101922012_28f1876e43_o.jpg


http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3284/3101085463_f67107a89b_o.jpg

http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3013/3101921896_46bb615476_o.jpg

http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3169/3101085279_150b8bbdec_o.jpg

[Radiohead]

http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3191/3101085221_afd783f5ce_o.jpg


http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3253/3101085079_25f2c13a3a_o.jpg

http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3276/3101085023_c6ec683842_o.jpg

Late 70's
http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3237/2867790673_b08e26181f_o.jpg

Below from 1976 (from Pittenger/Flickr)
ENLARGE (http://farm1.static.flickr.com/124/343272093_ee0f93b44c_o.jpg)
http://farm1.static.flickr.com/124/343272093_ee0f93b44c_b.jpg


http://farm1.static.flickr.com/143/343271543_c03718f0ab_b.jpg


http://farm1.static.flickr.com/148/343298641_5bad9e9a07_b.jpg


http://farm1.static.flickr.com/138/343270797_274687813d_b.jpg

http://farm1.static.flickr.com/141/343324928_be83831665_b.jpg

http://farm1.static.flickr.com/131/343298003_f7c24f14b1_b.jpg

[ablarc]

^ Scenes reminiscent of the re-creations in the movie, Milk. Truly great acting job by Sean Penn.

[Radiohead]

^I haven't seen Milk. I heard it's good.

http://farm1.static.flickr.com/138/343324189_f67fbe7677_b.jpg

http://farm1.static.flickr.com/127/343344100_c581dd353d_b.jpg

View from Americana Hotel 1976 (PaulW)
http://farm1.static.flickr.com/129/337588261_5e724c1a0b_b.jpg

ENLARGE (http://farm1.static.flickr.com/148/337589508_5a9cdc256d_o.jpg)
http://farm1.static.flickr.com/148/337589508_5a9cdc256d_b.jpg

Cocktails, anyone?
http://farm1.static.flickr.com/156/337588920_23d6a08285_b.jpg

WTC 1973 (citibehr)
http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3281/2349267922_b3deedee5b_b.jpg

WTC 5 1973
http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3099/2349267988_69e014c356_o.jpg

Liberty Plaza 1973
http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2238/2348433229_cbbccfed33_b.jpg

Village Inn Pizza @Ave A & St Marks 1979 (julie_wilson_world)
http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2362/2482639288_ba0e7e3a74_o.jpg

12th & Broadway 1970(PhillipC)
http://farm1.static.flickr.com/8/8856375_74fbef660e_o.jpg

Above are from Flickr unless otherwise noted, with owner names if not hosted by me.

[NYC4Life]

Radiohead - You are the King of 70's NY.

[Radiohead]

Thanks. Actually those who took the pics way back when, and those who took the time to upload them are the real kings.

A few more...

The Village (imagemkr1)
http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2104/2255720978_d7e1512b67_b.jpg

http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2277/2249806462_6ae8efebfc_b.jpg

Seventh Ave South(below 5 by timewitness)
http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3076/3129079869_78361f0093.jpg?v=0

Castros and cadillacs.
http://farm1.static.flickr.com/103/314422011_d007829c6a_o.jpg

The abandoned city. Eerie.
http://farm1.static.flickr.com/120/292022194_f80769e28c_o.jpg

http://farm1.static.flickr.com/116/299236170_9d43482367_o.jpg

Very early 70's mid-town
http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2269/2164417963_dda6fbf9d2_o.jpg

(stevesobczuk)
http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3069/2618841432_0510f08304_o.jpg

1971(pierre_m)
http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2097/1773837237_fba1fa2c88_b.jpg

Finally, Merry Christmas, Happy Hannakah and all that....
http://blogs.indiewire.com/anthony/archives/war%20is%20over.jpg

[NYC4Life]

Grit never looked never.

[195Broadway]

True Grit.
http://www.filmreference.com/images/sjff_03_img1390.jpg

[Derek2k3]

12th & Broadway 1970(PhillipC)
http://farm1.static.flickr.com/8/8856375_74fbef660e_o.jpg



The nice building with the mansard roof was demolished by Related for the horrific Regal Cinema w/ the rentals above. (aka known as 1 Union Square South)
Sad. Now the entire northern 13th St frontage is mostly a blank wall of loading docks and vents.

On a brighter note, the building 2nd from the SE corner of 13th has been beautifully renovated and its base fully restored.

[bmb0681]

Thanks, NYC..... That photo is like a time machine! Dead nuts on atmosphere of the Cross Bronx back then. Think of that scene multiplied many times along the sides of the highway. Sing it, everyone: "Over the BRIDGE, and through the BRONX to grandmother's HOUSE we'd GO"



Brings back memories

[worshipthebean]

Just incredible. Thanks so much for posting these. As a fairly new (well, last 15 years) regular visitor to this amazing city, I've seen some changes but nothing like this. Fantastic.

[eg4power]

Absolutely awesome !

I'm a French guy, and I would like to say a lots of thanks to Radiohead. I'm 27 years old, and when I was younger, I watched a lot of TV shows of early 80's with these kinds of atmosphere and thoses cars !! For me, it was the American dream. It's difficult finding pictures of New-York of this era. It was very dirty, and certainly unsafe. I think it's better now. Unfortunately, the full-size cars that I like so much have disappeard. Now, a friend and I want coming to visit New-York city in May 2010, after seeing this topic !

Radiohead, you are at the origin of this project !
(sorry for language mistakes)

Thank you very much for those pages

Alex

[smellslikeabid]

Still amazes me!
Keep it up!

[bill schintler]

That's good photo spread. It interests me to compare old photos with recent ones of the same location - which I've done here using Google images. Beneath each of the photos below is a link to a recent Google image which is no more then a few years old. Not surprisingly, the West Village has not changed significantly; while other areas such as Times Square and West St., have changed so much since the 70's that they're almost unrecognizable...

bill s.



The Village (imagemkr1)
http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2104/2255720978_d7e1512b67_b.jpg


http://maps.google.com/?ie=UTF8&ll=40.731015,-74.004614&spn=0,359.977255&t=h&z=16&layer=c&cbll=40.731091,-74.004663&panoid=vkFdxPuFnT5RnoX6QLxQcw&cbp=12,233.74151437429765,,0,1.3490566037735838



http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2277/2249806462_6ae8efebfc_b.jpg


http://maps.google.com/?ie=UTF8&ll=40.730257,-74.002689&spn=0,359.997157&t=h&z=19&layer=c&cbll=40.730324,-74.002479&panoid=Mra1j3hx5QttWNnTOFV96w&cbp=12,189.3300186129444,,0,-2.4716981132075455



Seventh Ave South(below 5 by timewitness)
http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3076/3129079869_78361f0093.jpg?v=0



http://maps.google.com/?ie=UTF8&ll=40.733113,-74.003077&spn=0,359.997157&t=h&z=19&layer=c&cbll=40.732999,-74.003146&panoid=6-m6ExJ2szOK60KiwQVXvw&cbp=12,110.05055329892318,,0,-5.783018867924525




Castros and cadillacs.
http://farm1.static.flickr.com/103/314422011_d007829c6a_o.jpg

Times Square has changed about as much as anywhere...

http://maps.google.com/?ie=UTF8&ll=40.759334,-73.984884&spn=0,359.988627&t=h&z=17&layer=c&cbll=40.759372,-73.984982&panoid=V99h-1OrzNXi-VE0OfFPwQ&cbp=12,34.41873574465756,,0,-0.09433962264148772



The abandoned city. Eerie.
http://farm1.static.flickr.com/120/292022194_f80769e28c_o.jpg


http://maps.google.com/?ie=UTF8&ll=40.72227,-74.011626&spn=0,359.994314&t=h&z=18&layer=c&cbll=40.722355,-74.011605&panoid=CcD-p-ktGjXXkh0lIhXMPQ&cbp=12,78.6825439049704,,0,-5.867924528301887



http://farm1.static.flickr.com/116/299236170_9d43482367_o.jpg


http://maps.google.com/?ie=UTF8&ll=40.734428,-74.010051&spn=0,359.997157&t=h&z=19&layer=c&cbll=40.734594,-74.010039&panoid=KAPuWXsgNOK5sVU9XVYh-w&cbp=12,89.98141423942731,,0,-14.443396226415073



Very early 70's mid-town
http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2269/2164417963_dda6fbf9d2_o.jpg


This must be where the Bank of America tower is now? 42nd street just west of 6th.



(stevesobczuk)
http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3069/2618841432_0510f08304_o.jpg
Finally, Merry Christmas, Happy Hannakah and all that....
http://blogs.indiewire.com/anthony/archives/war%20is%20over.jpg

http://maps.google.com/?ie=UTF8&ll=40.756384,-73.987759&spn=0,359.988627&t=h&z=17&layer=c&cbll=40.756346,-73.987663&panoid=-Zneqq_DiJo_etW8ezBHMA&cbp=12,302.2710482383765,,0,-5.443396226415102

[Radiohead]

Pretty cool contrasts. I miss the marquees along 42nd St, as well as these...

http://www.rollingrains.com/archives/Big%20Yellow%20Taxi.JPG

[chrisb73]

Somebody posted on Skyscrapercity.com a great link:

http://images.google.com/images?hl=en&q=new+york+source%3Alife&btnG=Search+Images

Search in Google-Images: new york source:life

You can change "new york" to "5th Ave", "Manhattan", "Bronx", "Broadway" or whatever you want. Great collection of LIFE-Magazine-Images

[Bronxbombers]

I will look on www.google.com (http://www.google.com) later today. And thanks very very much for my pictrues on New York City during the 1970's.

[ChasD]

[quote=Radiohead;213827]Greenwich Ave October 1970 - The photo titled "Greenwich Ave October 1970" is not Greenwich Avenue.

The photo was taken from the intersection of West 4th Street and West 10th Street, looking east along West 10th Street. "Your Father's Mustache" is now a "Gourmet Garage" on the corner of Seventh Avenue. The orange colored building at the upper right of the photo was the Women's House of Detention". The clock tower still stands. It is now the Jefferson Market branch of the NY Public Library. It was then the abandoned Jefferson Market Courthouse.
http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2148/2247957026_80d4b385b9_o.jpg

/[quote]

[Bronxbombers]

Thanks very very much for posting more pictures of New York City during the 1970's.

[Antares41]

Wow! just visted this thread and so many memories came flooding back. The NYC of the 70's is the city of my adolescence. It was really a city of extremes back then, to an extent that hard to experience in the NYC of today. Even the Bronx (where I grew-up) is dramatically different then the place I knew. Thank you Radiohead and others for the trip down memory lane.

[bill schintler]

It's interesting to compare the 70's photos with current shots. I identified most of the photos using Google Maps, with the Google Map link preceeding each photo.

1) Fifth Ave. looking south
http://maps.google.com/?ie=UTF8&ll=40.758266,-73.97739&spn=0,359.994335&t=h&z=18&layer=c&cbll=40.75819,-73.977442&panoid=PZrtZVH1PTF5YF10GAb03Q&cbp=12,245.08,,0,7.27




http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2138/2487783439_682fdd3828_o.jpg


2) Fifth Ave., looking north
http://maps.google.com/?ie=UTF8&ll=40.759176,-73.976719&spn=0,359.994335&t=h&z=18&layer=c&cbll=40.75931,-73.976621&panoid=8cUye_yb8-8aHvkT7PhESQ&cbp=12,357.03,,0,-10.68



http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2077/2488608804_ddfe636bd3_o.jpg


3) Just north of 1) above
http://maps.google.com/?ie=UTF8&ll=40.758266,-73.97739&spn=0,359.994335&t=h&z=18&layer=c&cbll=40.758535,-73.977188&panoid=IEzpd8NOjxOTYErNEAKkqQ&cbp=12,246.25,,0,-9.49 (http://maps.google.com/?ie=UTF8&ll=40.758266)



http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2072/2488608928_bc5bd0a359_o.jpg


4) West entrance to MacDougal Alley, looking east.
http://maps.google.com/?ie=UTF8&ll=40.732291,-73.997549&spn=0,359.994335&t=h&z=18&layer=c&cbll=40.732614,-73.998261&panoid=Uuh4xZolzNWTGYLhr7vf1Q&cbp=12,109.28,,0,-7.78



http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3050/2490283643_b55d8cde40_o.jpg


5) Washington Mews, looking west
http://maps.google.com/?ie=UTF8&ll=40.731226,-73.995291&spn=0,359.994335&t=h&z=18&layer=c&cbll=40.731201,-73.995123&panoid=p_Ef5zXiH8iKcx1gHMAKDQ&cbp=12,309.87,,0,-2.07



http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3123/2490282983_315b1a2f6a_o.jpg


6) E 42nd, looking west
http://maps.google.com/?ie=UTF8&ll=40.749496,-73.971602&spn=0,359.994335&t=h&z=18&layer=c&cbll=40.749821,-73.972216&panoid=GT-ACNYksfYfHwKoplYEPg&cbp=12,326.12,,0,-12.73



http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2213/2490282687_fcd3af950e_b.jpg



7) Mott at Bayard, looking south down Mott.
http://maps.google.com/?ie=UTF8&ll=40.715619,-73.998502&spn=0,359.997168&t=h&z=19&layer=c&cbll=40.715541,-73.998547&panoid=9M-Uyvll61BFodKNP-P2rQ&cbp=12,179.28,,0,-6.42



http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2099/2490282253_85988a7e1e_o.jpg


8) Grand St. just east of Mulberry, looking east
http://maps.google.com/?ie=UTF8&ll=40.719242,-73.997083&spn=0,359.98867&t=h&z=17&layer=c&cbll=40.719283,-73.997187&panoid=YWHHwlSH67bDpWnbHDQm4g&cbp=12,141.68,,0,-7.87



http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2406/2490281851_124a2cea6b_o.jpg


9) Avenue of the Americas, near Central Park

http://maps.google.com/?ie=UTF8&ll=40.765681,-73.976247&spn=0,359.994335&t=h&z=18&layer=c&cbll=40.765583,-73.976313&panoid=wijCXo1W6z7O6q-Mb_-yyw&cbp=12,189.06,,0,-9.06



Gotta love the old cabs
http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2255/2491098498_29d995e721_o.jpg

- bill

[MookRyan]

I'm loving all the pix of New York in the '70's - I miss it! I found this site in my ongoing search for images of the horse-drawn carriage world in the '70's.
I worked as a carriage driver in Central Park from 1970-1975 and don't have a single photo from that time ... which is aggravating, because a million tourists took my picture during those years!

[lofter1]

A recent video take on one aspect of NYC life circa 1970:

The Boys In The Band - "Harold Vs. Michael" (Remix 2008) (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YrQ6EKmdiBE&feature=related)

[lofter1]

And the same year from another perspective:

THE OUT OF TOWNERS (1970) (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UVYJ2zJKwjc)

Transit Strike + Garbage:

The Out of Towners (1970) pt.4/9 (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cNZ_Ndh7aOg&feature=PlayList&p=26DD6D4A824858CD&index=3)

[stache]

There's another movie similar to this where the couple goes upstate to their country cabin to get away from NYC only to discover it has been vandalized and pillaged. (Title?)

[195Broadway]

^
^
Oh, man, that manhole explosion made me laugh so loud, I'll bet the neighbors heard it.

Great link.

[beefeater24]

It's just so funny!

[lofter1]

There's another movie similar to this where the couple goes upstate to their country cabin to get away from NYC only to discover it has been vandalized and pillaged. (Title?)

Are you thinking of the vile "Straw Dogs (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QPS-YFhhgx8)" (1971) directed by Sam Peckinpah with Dustin Hoffman & Susan George? (However, it takes place in the countryside of England not upstate NY.)

There is a remake (http://www.pastemagazine.com/articles/2009/07/kate-bosworth-to-join-james-marsden-in-straw-dogs.html) of SD in the works, but given the way Hollywood works these days it will probably be a comedy (intentionally or not).

[stache]

It's the right era but I think the leads were older. This could be the movie as I never saw it, just read a review.

[lofter1]

Perhaps you're thinking of "Desperate Characters (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0066986/)" (1971) directed by Frank D. Gilroy with Shirley Maclaine & Kenneth Mars.

From the NY Times review (http://movies.nytimes.com/movie/review?res=9D0CEEDD1F3FE63ABC4B51DFBF66838A669EDE) (9.23.1971):


The time of "Desperate Characters" is now, and it could be taking place just a year or two before Jules Feiffer's "Little Murders." In the vision of Frank D. Gilroy, who produced and directed the film, as well as adapted Paula Fox's novel, New York is still functioning, but all of the omens are bad ...

The subways they ride are inhabited by two kinds of people, those who talk to themselves and those who pretend not to notice. The streets are boobytrapped with garbage and dog excrement and drunks who might be stiffs. There's an obscene phone call, a rock tossed through a window and a depressing visit with Leon, an English professor who won't eat in the cafeteria because he's afraid someone will slip a little acid into his soup.

I describe all of this at some length because it reflects the quality of the film itself, which is full of the details of urban desperation, painfully and accurately observed at eyelevel, without exploitation or condescension. Yet I must confess that "Desperate Characters" left me, if not unmoved, then unenriched. It's as if its cheerlessness had been bottled straight, without the additive that transforms recognizable experience into art.


Based on the well-reviewed novel (http://www.salon.com/books/review/1999/06/16/fox/print.html) of the same title.

***

From around the same time and having very little to do with NYC ...

Lucille Ball & Shirley MacLaine (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M46dQYvMp1o)

MAME (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sfZTjyxJTYw) meets SWEET CHARITY (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UseIME8v2Ts) :eek:

[stache]

I remember watching that show on tv! :cool:

[Derek2k3]

1980
http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2449/3887876277_92f4f3020c_o.jpg
dw's (http://www.flickr.com/photos/dianeworland/3887450755/)


http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2590/3887450755_4ae1fe8b9a_b.jpg
dw's (http://www.flickr.com/photos/dianeworland/3887450755/)
West Broadway


http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2537/3888243514_85811010fd_o.jpg
dw's (http://www.flickr.com/photos/dianeworland/3887450755/)



1977
http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3243/3894507031_2ef3ea5c59_b.jpg

[Taz]

Ahh the graffiti-plastered train cars. I love seeing these old pictures and seeing how much has changed. I'm 23, so I wasn't around to see the graffiti trains. Wish I had, a lot of them looked great from the pictures I've seen.


Most are from 1974

Grand Central subway passengers
http://media.nara.gov/media/images/15/13/15-1247a.gif

Brooklyn
http://media.nara.gov/media/images/15/4/15-0355a.gif

Near Lynch Park Brooklyn
http://media.nara.gov/media/images/15/4/15-0325a.gif

http://media.nara.gov/media/images/15/4/15-0323a.gif

Lexington Ave Line graffiti
http://media.nara.gov/media/images/15/13/15-1239a.gif

http://media.nara.gov/media/images/15/13/15-1242a.gif

42nd St Station bruger stand
http://media.nara.gov/media/images/15/13/15-1244a.gif


Boy Scout leader, Bud-Stuy Brooklyn
http://media.nara.gov/media/images/15/4/15-0327a.gif

1973
http://media.nara.gov/media/images/9/6/09-0524a.gif

Shutters Island at mouth of Arthur Kill
http://media.nara.gov/media/images/12/16/12-1552a.gif

[Radiohead]

3 from 1979 from le.suede/Flickr

http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3371/3660272104_3f9486786e_b.jpg

http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3655/3652025096_781b39da9d_b.jpg

Heading toward the Holland Tunnel (from Jersey City)
http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2469/3656029203_cc6ea3c213_b.jpg

For comparison, a recent pic from a similar spot
http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2599/4097937809_d54e3d12fd_o.jpg

[bill schintler]

First photo: Madison and east 53rd, looking north, to be compared with a recent Streetview image below:

http://maps.google.com/?ie=UTF8&ll=40.759667,-73.974048&spn=0,359.988638&t=h&z=17&layer=c&cbll=40.759743,-73.974223&panoid=nYeqGNGpgv0Co9pS0sWmAg&cbp=12,28.72,,0,-14.89

Second photo:
46th in the heart of Times Square, again looking north:

http://maps.google.com/?ie=UTF8&ll=40.758635,-73.984659&spn=0,359.988638&t=h&z=17&layer=c&cbll=40.758687,-73.985322&panoid=CL8wYS9g2RvVuQda41VrXw&cbp=12,25.99,,0,-9.19

- bill

[PLaza9]

This thread has made me want to dig up a few of my own...From 1978-9...don't know why they're 'thumbnails' and not big and beautiful like everyone else's

[mlehrman]

I took these as a high school student, during more "innocent" times.

[londonlawyer]

3 from 1979 from le.suede/Flickr

http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3371/3660272104_3f9486786e_b.jpg
]

Wow! The now prime Madison Ave. in the high 50's was an absolute slum!! It looks like sh..it. I can't believe all of the crap buildings and parking lots that were there.

NY really was MIERDA in the 1970s.

[avngingandbright]

Truly amazing. However, there are still areas on Park and Park Ave. South that are parking lots.

[londonlawyer]

On PAS which is simply awaiting financing for the magnificant 400 PAS. I'm not aware of any on Park. Moreover, bear in mind that the location pictured in the photo, Madison around 55th St., is the primest part of Midtown.

[avngingandbright]

Is 400 Park to be built atop the parking lot at the Southwest corner of 28th and Park?

I also phrased the above post wrong: I meant to imply that the Drake hotel site is of a similar disgusting squallid quality to that found in the 1970's picture.

[londonlawyer]

Yes 400 PAS will rise on that corner.

With respect to The Drake, that was simply a victime of the economy.

The photo of Madison in the 1970s simply depicts urban decline.

[Radiohead]

^PAS looks a whole lot better today


Miscell shots from 1suisse/flickr

http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2799/4118985774_fc8d5c9737_b.jpg

http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2711/4118202829_28d4e4c5c9_o.jpg

http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2672/4118946746_887c77c886_o.jpg

http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2606/4118178075_923490541d_o.jpg

http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2620/4118948666_f1f64e390b_o.jpg


http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2773/4118949442_4e31fd5453_o.jpg

http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2621/4118950002_26dc67185f_o.jpg



http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2681/4118181159_a9ce6b36c3_b.jpg


Any present WNY'ers in this photo?
http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2663/3867531731_5b056b5d34_b.jpg

http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3502/3867537693_eb78d6bf43_b.jpg

[Radiohead]

Here are some great shots found over at ForumNYC. These are Flickr hosted photos from member Weezer. They appear to be from mid-decade.

http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2624/4051335372_c5b3c01a28_b.jpg

http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3510/4051339316_56936d864d_b.jpg

http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2622/4050597659_6a33c29949_b.jpg

http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2776/4051342702_924802edff_b.jpg

http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2679/4051343476_db8bd78702_b.jpg

http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2730/4051350244_1e033ee213_b.jpg

http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2744/4051345796_4e28d203d9_b.jpg

http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2427/4051346324_75bd7392a6_b.jpg

http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2797/4050603717_d9758025d1_b.jpg

http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2590/4051355798_3041cd034e_b.jpg

[Radiohead]

http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2796/4050613951_1e54dbe869_b.jpg

http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2421/4051357564_9fb91567a6_b.jpg

http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2464/4051358448_e561d0b6c7_b.jpg

http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2696/4050616829_fa4da86d69_b.jpg

http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2683/4051364142_24530fe3f8_b.jpg

http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2657/4051367752_735a13a83f_b.jpg

http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3483/4051369578_56cecc70c3_b.jpg

http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2748/4051371244_26ce482d47_b.jpg

http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2720/4051371840_10eb9ae159_b.jpg

http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2641/4050637495_ff09df3051_b.jpg

[Radiohead]

http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2483/4050632281_b3eace76b4_b.jpg

The Port Authority, IMO the ugliest building in NYC
http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2729/4050631781_b6b0904d19_b.jpg

http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3479/4050631359_8f68c71e61_b.jpg

http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2755/4051373226_6a0d4e2421_b.jpg

http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2736/4051372422_2af333e2e5_b.jpg

Marquee may date this to 1977-78
http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2576/4051377586_198710596d_b.jpg

More photos HERE (http://forumnyc.com/topic/30429-new-york-photos-from-1970s/)

[Derek2k3]

Great pics. LondonLawyer would have a heart attack, especially considering how much history was knocked down in the few years prior.

Look at all that trash on the streets. I love all the small shops though, not a Duane Reade or bank branch in sight.

[lofter1]

It was a big nasty mess back then. You can feel the energy of the city in all those shots. Great to have been around to play in it.

[londonlawyer]

Great pics. LondonLawyer would have a heart attack, especially considering how much history was knocked down in the few years prior.

Look at all that trash on the streets. I love all the small shops though, not a Duane Reade or bank branch in sight.

Fordham Road still offers all of those small shops, as do most commercial thoroughfares in the Bronx.

[Fabrizio]

Everyone was getting laid like crazy back then.

[antinimby]

I thought I saw Richard Pryor in post # 213, pic # 7 from the top.

[londonlawyer]

Everyone was getting laid like crazy back then.

People still do. When I was single, I scored constantly. The rooftop lounge of the Peninsula on a spring night was a gold mine. I can't even imagine the action at the Standard.

[londonlawyer]

What's that beautiful pedimented building? Is that somewhere on 8th? What a f..ing shame that it's gone.

http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2641/4050637495_ff09df3051_b.jpg

[Fabrizio]

The great Rivoli Theatre "one of the grandest theaters on the east coast" :

http://cinematreasures.org/theater/555/

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v33/ronaldo/jc05-2.jpg

[londonlawyer]

Thanks, Fabrizio.

What a crime.

This beautiful building on the left is another devastating loss.

http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2672/4118946746_887c77c886_o.jpg

[Fabrizio]

That shot is from 1949.... but the title of that film would have been right at home on any Times Square movie theatre in the 1970's...

[rp23g7]

great picture with Tads Steak house on 47th st. $2.99 for a steak back then too

[195Broadway]

I can smell the exhaust fumes, chestnuts, and pretzels...
http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2720/4051371840_10eb9ae159_b.jpg

[DMAG]

Still one of my favorite thread on WNY. Keep it up!

[Tectonic]

Great pics. LondonLawyer would have a heart attack, especially considering how much history was knocked down in the few years prior.

Look at all that trash on the streets. I love all the small shops though, not a Duane Reade or bank branch in sight.

Very dirty indeed, seemed like there were more small businesses back then. Now I guess everybody's too big to fail.

[Tectonic]

Also I can't figure out where in the city this is:

http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2427/4051346324_75bd7392a6_b.jpg

[londonlawyer]

Is that Montreal?

[Radiohead]

It may be. I thought it looked kind of odd for NYC. St Jacques? Is that near Delancey??:o

[londonlawyer]

There's a St. Jaques in Montreal.

Also, notwithstanding my poor eyesight, I see a sign that says Metro.

[Good2cu]

Really an incredible thread, I've been transfixed for the last hour or so. A lot of contemprary NY has got a retro feel to it, these pictures show when that was the real thing - and as someone else has pointed out, there's so much to relate to if you grew up watching those TV shows and movies.

One question: that Village Cigars shop is featured in so many of the pictures, was that (is that still) like the very heart of the west village?

[bill schintler]

Is that Montreal?

Yes, Montreal. Here's what the spot looks like now:

http://maps.google.com/maps?source=s_q&hl=en&geocode=&q=St.+Jacques&sll=45.499805,-73.562007&sspn=0.004805,0.01545&ie=UTF8&split=1&radius=0.37&rq=1&ev=p&hq=St.+Jacques&hnear=&t=h&layer=c&cbll=45.501282,-73.560417&panoid=D_f5VnSHih9FwN-Qxcq6ag&cbp=12,264.01,,0,-9.56&ll=45.501497,-73.560301&spn=0,359.98866&z=17

- bill

[faithlessfate]

One question: that Village Cigars shop is featured in so many of the pictures, was that (is that still) like the very heart of the west village?


Yep. Christopher St and 7th Avenue South... Good Ol' Village Cigars.

[ROGUEWAVE]

Finding this site was a real treasure. I moved back to NYC in 1973 and these are a blast. A yeoman task to scan & post these. All appreciation & gratitude. Happy holiday to all.

[JOytuc]

I was pleased to see this on Stumble - These photos showed all my old stomping grounds growing up in New York during the 60's & 70's. I was about to become a go go dancer on 42 St in '75, when I decided to go to France instead.

These pics show a special time in NY - an iconic era. My kids were fascinated to see what I came from.

[londonlawyer]

Do you live in France now? If so, that's cool.

[Merry]

Yes, Montreal. Here's what the spot looks like now:

http://maps.google.com/maps?source=s_q&hl=en&geocode=&q=St.+Jacques&sll=45.499805,-73.562007&sspn=0.004805,0.01545&ie=UTF8&split=1&radius=0.37&rq=1&ev=p&hq=St.+Jacques&hnear=&t=h&layer=c&cbll=45.501282,-73.560417&panoid=D_f5VnSHih9FwN-Qxcq6ag&cbp=12,264.01,,0,-9.56&ll=45.501497,-73.560301&spn=0,359.98866&z=17

- bill

Ah, thank you, I was going nuts trying to work out where this was too.

Are those two wonderful old buildings in the foreground in the first photo gone or are they just hidden behind the newer ones?

[aragond]

I just had to register 'n' logon just so I could say "Thank you" for this blast from the past thread. Y'all have done some astounding researching finding all these photos and then taking the time to link them into this thread.

NYC certainly is different today. It blows my mind just how so, how the city had crumbled in many ways and yet, in parts, retained a character that is so very different to what it has today. I think I recall reading someone comment that back then it wasn't the financial crowd flocking to the city, but a different crowd altogether, artists, bohemians? How incredibly different would it have been to... I mean, compared to these photos of Times Sq. and 42nd St, those places today are positively... uh... Disneyworld! "Family friendly" comes to mind. :D

While I wouldn't want the poor ole city to return to those days of grime and crime, she did have some definitive character in her derelict buildings and emerging twin towers, her decaying riverfront warehouses and ... HA! ... the Jersey shoreline lacked a building over twenty feet. :eek:
What a world.

So, anyway, thanks.

[Agile]

Wow, am I glad I stumbled on this thread. I grew up in Tribeca and SoHo in the 70's & 80's. These photos bring back so many memories.

I used to go to Dave's Luncheonette on Canal & Broadway. They made a mean Lime Rickey. I lived in a few places. Broadway between Grand & Broome, right next to the Fleisig & Sons clock. That ugly yellow neon sign was locked in my memory.

I also lived on the corner of Mercer & Houston. Love the shot looking west on Houston, where the Angelika is today. You can see across the street the construction for NYU's Cole center. That used to be a big, vacant sandlot where my friends and I played baseball. We hated NYU for building a big, beautiful athletic building that me and my friends weren't allowed to be a part of.

My early Tribeca memories are of riding my bike on the old elevated West Side Highway in the summer. I lived on Greenwich & Beach. We only lived on the 4th floor but had a clear view of the Colgate clock in NJ.

I could go on and on!

[stache]

What you're writing is interesting.

[ZippyTheChimp]

I used to go to Dave's Luncheonette on Canal & Broadway. I once had an argument with him outside at the counter. I don't remember what it was about, but I was really angry, because I threw a knish at him.

[nycla3]

^Musta given you kasha instead of potato...I hate when that happens...

[stache]

The dreaded knish throw -

[Agile]

Especially if it's not a fresh knish.

[ZippyTheChimp]

http://farm1.static.flickr.com/125/349821832_0f07c55df1.jpg

For a while, a Thursday lunch ritual. From work to a place called the Microskirt on Canal near Layfayette. No food, so the stop at Dave's.

Knishes
Beer
Half-naked women.

[stache]

By any chance was payday on Thursdays?

[lofter1]

Dave’s Luncheonette and the Art-Corps (http://www.cepagallery.org/store/basquiat/3t.html)

Basquiat photographs by Nicholas Taylor, 1979