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That oil slick is from all the years and years of greasers moving there now you have an oil grease problem in New York City on the streets close the borders depart

Rudy had it right. Put the bad guys in jail and the good people move back. Deblasio ended that.

The slick around the Statue of Liberty was most likely raw sewage. Besides peep shows, Times Square was known for something you can’t see in pictures. The fragrant aroma of urine.

Thats what happens when no one can make an honest living , all the american factories were being closed down during the 70’s !

42nd street had the peep shows too

More dangerous nowadays. I'll take the Times Square Burlesque and Peepshow Theaters.

10 pictures and crappy background music.

The scuzzy, low-life hippie culture of the 1960s was largely responsible for the rise in violent crime in the 1970s, which plagued dense, urban areas such as New York like a cancer. Nice going, Boomers.

I grew up then and saw this, better and worse. Try as you may you can't knock the city down, it always comes back. Say that about your little town.

I was a police officer with the 46 th precinct in 1972, I got some stories and saw a world no one could imagine even in today’s world !!!!

NYC was a really GRIMEY place then, I had an aunt who lived in the Bronx for many years until her and her husband FINALLY decided to get the HELL out of that garbage can. I came to visit her once in the 70's, that's when I learned how ROTTEN that place really was! BFS and PRs DIDN'T intermingle with each other much then, as the FALSE narrative they're trying to push now, saying they created hiphop 50/50, that's a LIE, they ATTACKED BFS every chance they got, they HATED BFS, just as everyone else did, and had NO problems letting you KNOW IT!

Ya, it was pretty grotesque and dangerous , but things change...🗿

I was a teenager in the 70s. I miss that decade.

3rd world country?

People could afford to live there back then

Wolfen times

One of the premier cities in America's crown--------SHAMEFUL. Still, not great to look at, let alone live in.

Yet delusional boomers will tell you the 70's were the best decade in human history..

I worked in Manhattan in the sixties and early seventies……it was nice, but went down hill fast. Affirmative Action hurt the city. It put unqualified people in positions of authority where they should never have been placed. The corruption led to more crime.

"Some of my friends are investing in revolvers and carrying them at night"......a quote about nyc. The year of that quote? 1875!!!!!!!!!!!!

Stop spreading this bull propaganda about the 70s. The 70s were a great time in New York but if you are going to focus on the negative don't waste your time.

Imagine being a cop between 1967 and 1993. Imagine what was observed working in Harlem and then the Bronx, the cruelty between man, the horror of heroin, then crack.

And 2024:( :(

Funny how 50 years later not much has changed. too bad the adult stores were eliminated! 🙂

New York was rough and tough back then more than it is now

When I was a kid I saw the movie ‘The Bronx’. There was a scene where a woman got rolled up in a carpet. I think there was a lapse in my supervision.

NYC is still dangerous!

Great photos. Its much more dangerous today in 2024

I loved it and loved it.

This is San Francisco in 10 years. Thanks Newsome.

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the sex shows and so forth were confined to two blocks of 42nd street at the foot of Times Square. if you didn't like that kind of thing, you didn't go there. Now it's more like a Disneyland version of New York. Family friendly. Touristy beyond belief. Lindy's "famous" cheesecake. Can someone explain what makes it world famous?

Put a Queen in a palace and she'll keep it like a palace. Put a pig in a palace and it'll turn it into a pigsty.

It has been so since the dawn of time: there are people trying to live and there are sociopaths only too happy to exploit, cheat, bamboozle, con, stiff, shaft, mislead, and screw.

I remember the 1970s; I was a teenager back then. I don't particularly remember that sign "Welcome to Fear City" or if I did see it, which I probably did, didn't take it seriously; it was designed for tourists anyway, not native NYers. It was bad in certain areas depending on where you lived at the time, such as in East Harlem and the South Bronx, which looked like something out of bombed-out Germany or Hiroshima or Nagasaki during World War II. But as bad as it was, Nyers back then had more resilience than they do today. Also, crime, while it was bad for the time period, was not as pervasive and out-of-control as it has gotten today.

You didn't go to the bad areas. New York started being ugly in the 90s just like everything else.

Australian Robbed three times in 12 months 78/79

My girlfriend left the Bronx in the early 80's. Hell, this is every damned city in the country now, thanks to democrat rule.

If he did nothing else praiseworthy, Rudy Giuliani made NYC "livable again".

Ed Koke was the mayor then after Abe Beame

Today's marxist democrat party will return nyc to the 💩show it was in the 1970's.

New York started to shape up in the 2000s. My then son in law was there and took dozens of photographs while it was during reconstruction. Such a waste. The city just stopped working. It's a pig stye.

Went on a bus trip to NYC in the 1970's. What a dump. I didn't go back until later, when it became 'Disneyfied'

I grew up in the middle of this being held up at gunpoint and knifepoint in 74 and 75 as a teen and SMGDH at the current astonishing ignorance and depravity that far far far out-distances the atrociousness of that era (of course it helps that I survived and turned out to be a scholar🎉) However let it be understood that notwithstanding that precipitous decline, mid 20th century New York City will eventually be regarded as the very pinnacle of western civilization 🎉

Ya have too look poor and hope they mug someone else

Looks worse now.....

I was born in Brooklyn and grew up in the 1970s-1980s. I HATED how the city looked and was, crumbling down around us. It was ugly. You feared crime and being mugged the very second you stepped outside your building. The subways were ugly, the train cars completely covered in graffiti, inside and out. It seemed as if the graffiti was the only thing holding the train car together.

As an Aussie I love New York I’ve never felt so much energy in a city before and it has everything you want good or bad I❤️NY

I lived and studied and worked in nyc during the 70s and 80s. We never thought twice about this and always loved the city. This was just part of the grittiness that became a part of us. New York has always arisen, always dipped and will continue to do so.

I MISS THE OLD NEW YORK NOT LIKE THIS CRAP TODAY!