1970's New York City

[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://maps.google.com/?ie=UTF8&ll=4...90566037735838

http://maps.google.com/?ie=UTF8&ll=4...16981132075455

Seventh Ave South(below 5 by timewitness)

http://maps.google.com/?ie=UTF8&ll=4...83018867924525

Castros and cadillacs.

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

http://maps.google.com/?ie=UTF8&ll=4...33962264148772

The abandoned city. Eerie.

http://maps.google.com/?ie=UTF8&ll=4...67924528301887

http://maps.google.com/?ie=UTF8&ll=4...43396226415073

Very early 70's mid-town

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

(stevesobczuk)

Finally, Merry Christmas, Happy Hannakah and all that....

http://maps.google.com/?ie=UTF8&ll=4...43396226415102

[Radiohead]

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

[chrisb73]

Somebody posted on Skyscrapercity.com a great link:

http://images.google.com/images?hl=e...=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 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.


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[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=4...245.08,,0,7.27

2) Fifth Ave., looking north
http://maps.google.com/?ie=UTF8&ll=4...7.03,,0,-10.68

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

4) West entrance to MacDougal Alley, looking east.
http://maps.google.com/?ie=UTF8&ll=4...09.28,,0,-7.78

5) Washington Mews, looking west
http://maps.google.com/?ie=UTF8&ll=4...09.87,,0,-2.07

6) E 42nd, looking west
http://maps.google.com/?ie=UTF8&ll=4...6.12,,0,-12.73

7) Mott at Bayard, looking south down Mott.
http://maps.google.com/?ie=UTF8&ll=4...79.28,,0,-6.42

8) Grand St. just east of Mulberry, looking east
http://maps.google.com/?ie=UTF8&ll=4...41.68,,0,-7.87

9) Avenue of the Americas, near Central Park

http://maps.google.com/?ie=UTF8&ll=4...89.06,,0,-9.06

Gotta love the old cabs

- 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)

[lofter1]

And the same year from another perspective:

THE OUT OF TOWNERS (1970)

Transit Strike + Garbage:

The Out of Towners (1970) pt.4/9

[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]

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

Great link.