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September 12, 2014

Street Scenes of New York City in the 1970s

The 1970s were a time of deep change and growing pains for New York City as the country faced a recession.

By 1970, the city gained notoriety for high rates of crime and other social disorders. A popular song by Cashman & West in the autumn of 1972, "American City Suite", chronicled, in allegorical fashion, the decline in the city's quality of life.

The city's subway system was regarded as unsafe due to crime and suffered frequent mechanical breakdowns. Prostitutes and pimps frequented Times Square, while Central Park became feared as the site of muggings and rapes. Homeless persons and drug dealers occupied boarded-up and abandoned buildings. The New York City Police Department was subject to investigation for widespread corruption, most famously in the 1971 testimony of whistle-blowing police officer Frank Serpico.

Take a step back in time with these notable photos from the 1970s in New York City.































25 comments:

  1. True, I was against it, but no one listened to me, being a college freshman and all...

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  2. Compared to Obama, Bush is a saint.

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  3. Wow. Someone needs to stop breaking the pills in half.

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  4. You forgot to include a Hitler reference. Other than that, your MSNBC audition tape is ready to go. Solid stuff.

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  5. That is not reality. Do a little research.

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  6. It was a mistake by the Bush administration to try to set up democracies in Iraq and Afganistan. It takes several decades for a population to be ready for that. Even Turkey is becoming Islamist.

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  7. Pure projection. You don't know the first thing about the millions of people you mention in your comment, but you do know that you hate them. That's the definition of bigotry.

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  8. The CIA ran Operation Ajax in the 1950s, which ousted the
    democratically-elected secular Prime Minister Mossaddegh and replaced him with the Shah,
    who was a puppet. This set the wheels in motion. Later, the US government would do the same to the Shah that they did to Gaddafi in 2011: turn on him when the going got tough.

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  9. Someone should go back and duplicate those pictures from today. The contrast ought to be interesting.

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  10. Yes. If by " US foreign policy" you mean Jimmy Carter.

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  11. Yes. Our medias. And stuff. Mullah.

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  12. Dudes look comfortable. The ladies all look like Darth Vader.

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  13. Your religion is a bummer bro. A real bummer. Maybe the worst bummer ever.

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  14. Our future as well in the hands of the progressives. Technology and civilization will be forgotten, faded picture for most people while evil revel.

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  15. Hmmm. "There is no saint but GW Bush, and Cheney is his prophet."

    Kinda has a ring to it. :)

    Heck, I know conservatives who miss Bill Clinton at this point...

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  16. Here's one from the archives: Feb 8 1979 (NYT)

    https://twitter.com/BlissTabitha/status/470432262329491457

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  17. India is a democracy, and has been one for longer than France, Spain, and Germany..

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  18. The buildings are in fact better today than then. Remember, they have a lot of oil money. This isn't Afghanistan, ya know.


    Just the parties, and women in Western clothes, are absent.


    Pictures of Tehran today :
    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tehran

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  19. In'shallah the first part of earth we destroy is Iran.

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  20. Ya gotta love it when the #Occutard camp finally gets high-speed internet.

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  21. You have the words but not the music.

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    1. Wow a Christmas Evil reference?

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  22. ModeratelyDisorganizedSeptember 12, 2014 at 3:31 PM

    Oh, my...such a plethora of misinformation and disinformation that I fell off my chair laughing. Get thee to a psychiatric ward immediately!

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  23. Isn't it sad that you can't really tell the difference by looking at what he writes?

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