[Sharon]

New York in the 70s is a collection of photographs documenting an exciting chapter in New York's history by photographer Allan Tannenbaum while he was a photo editor of the SoHo Weekly News in Manhattan.

A boxer frowns at Gleason's Gym as he reads about Nixon and Watergate


Antidraft demonstrators holding a sit-in at the General Post Office do not deter a man in shorts from sending his post


Joan Baez at the War is Over Rally in Central Park, May 1975


The "body" of King Kong lies in the WTC plaza after falling from the top of the building


Times Square Hooker waiting on the street


Country music star Dolly Parton hugs rock star Mick Jagger backstage after her Bottom Line concert, 1977


Blondie cooking at home


Residents of Chinatown celebrate the year of the Tiger with a dragon and fireworks


Transit Authority K-9 Police use German Shepherds on the subway to deter crime


Terence Galagher tends the Bellevue Hospital Mortuary


Grace Slick and The Jefferson Starship perform in Central Park


A member of the Chingalings Motorcycle Club pushes another biker at the entrance to their rent-free city-owned clubhouse in the South Bronx


Sid Vicious in a body bag


Long-abandoned Pier 48 being used by gay men as a rendezvous for casual sex


A boy jumps off a jungle gym on to a mattress in a vacant lot in the Lower East Side

[Photoplay]

Vintage Black and White . Joan Baez awesome

[Sharon]

Learned something new today after seeing the King Kong body in the WTC plaza. If only he was there in 2001

The 1976 version of "King Kong" finds the famous ape climbing the World Trade Center. It was the first major, highlighted appearance of the towers in a film.

[kellyhound]

great back into time pics

[BBKF]

I also loved the Joan Baez. Gosh, I remember wearing jeans like that.

[fenek]

1970's New York = nightmarish shithole.

[bob351]

Looks like an awesome playground for the teenage and young adults.

[bob351]

70s in general not just ny.

[Susan]

Looks great

[Kelseecat65]

Loved the photos!!