1980s NYC in Color
The decade of the 1980s in New York feels to many like the end of an era. New York survived the 1970s but was not yet the gentrified city we know today. It was still gritty. It was still a city of neighborhoods that had a distinct character, with Mom and Pop shops, and a local flavor to cafes and restaurants. There were empty lots and dilapidated buildings, not every square inch needed to be used for something. To life long New Yorkers, it still resembled and felt like the city they grew up in. Hopefully these pictures capture a bit of those times and feelings.
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Aerial, Madison Square Garden.jpg
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Art on the Beach, landfill for World Financial Center.jpg
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Bayridge, Brooklyn.jpg
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Cast Iron Building, SOHO.jpg
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Coney Island Arcade.jpg
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Coney Island Beach.jpg
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Couple sitting in Sheep Meadow, Central Park.jpg
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Empire State Building-2.jpg
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Empire State Building.jpg
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Grand Central Station.jpg
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Halloween Parade, Greenwich Village-2.jpg
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Halloween Parade, Greenwich Village-3.jpg
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Halloween Parade, Greenwich Village-4.jpg
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Halloween Parade, Greenwich Village.jpg
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Il Porcellino, Sutton Place Park, Queensborough Bridge.jpg
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Lisa Sliwa demonstraing self defense with Guardian Angels in front of the NYPL.jpg
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Madison Avenue traffic.jpg
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Madison Avenue.jpg
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Meatpacking District-2.jpg
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Meatpacking District.jpg
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Night sky, East 10th Street.jpg
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Old signage, Times Square.jpg
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Older men on park bench.jpg
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Protest, United Nations.jpg
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Softball, Central Park.jpg
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Staten Island Ferry terminal.jpg
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Staten Island Ferry-2.jpg
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Staten Island ferry.jpg
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Statue of Liberty and Staten Island Ferry-2.jpg
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Statue of Liberty and Staten Island Ferry.jpg
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Statue Of Liberty Renovation, 1984.jpg
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Street Fair worker, Chinatown.jpg
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Stuyvesant Square.jpg
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Sutton Square and 59th Street Bridge.jpg
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Walter Mondale and Geraldine Ferraro in a New York parade during 1984 presidential campaign.jpg
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Women feeding birds in Central Park Lake.jpg
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World Financial Center under construction, 1984-2.jpg
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World Financial Center under construction, 1984-3.jpg
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World Financial Center under construction, 1984.jpg