However, the idea of “1970s New York” is the decade of the city that draws the most interest. There have been movies made after that time that are set in New York in the 1970s.

New York City was a very different place 40 years ago. Unlike most New Yorkers, photographer Langdon Clay spent much of the 1970s walking around Manhattan alone in the middle of the night.

I always liked to travel. While in the Army at Fort Bragg (now Fort Liberty) from 1975 to 1978, I’d get a weekend off and fly to New York for fun. After months of training around the country ...

Photos taken at time when New York City was facing near-bankruptcy and notorious for spiralling crime rates Photographer Leonard Freed joined officers on the beat for his project - first pictured ...

In the 1970s, over 800,000 newcomers streamed into New York. In the following decade, over a million. By the 1980s, the city's population was being dramatically transformed, not only by the sheer ...

Billy Joel's 1977 magnum opus, "The Stranger," is hailed by many as an album that defined the New York experience with its sound. But Joel wasn't the only sound in town at the time, as the City ...

"I love my job and never want to feel like I was stealing from my job to do this." "For multiple reasons, one of them being ...

For many, track and field in the New York City area during the ’60s ... have quiet moment before a 1970’s meet at Randall’s Island. At Old Boys High Field in Brooklyn in 1972, legendary ...