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  1. Browse 55 new york ghetto photos and images available, or start a new search to explore more photos and images. Teenager holding his ghetto blaster on 42nd street New York, USA, 1980.

  2. Jun 14, 2018 · Pictures of Pimps, Prostitutes and Homeless of 1970s Times Square Through a Bartender's Camera June 14, 2018 1970s , 1980s , life & culture , New York , people , portraits , street In 1972 Shelly Nadelman began a ten-year run bartending at one of New York City’s most notorious dives: the Terminal Bar, located across the street from the Port ...

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    • The Rural Beginnings of The Bowery
    • The Bowery s Slow, Steady Decline
    • How Satan s Highway Went from Punk Rock to The Gap

    Long before Manhattan became an island of skyscrapers and the Bowery one of its most important downtown arteries, this area of lower Manhattan acted as an important thoroughfare for Indigenous Americans. Tribes called the trail Wickquasgeck, which, according to Curbed, translates as "path to the wading place" or "birch-bark country." It later becam...

    A number of factors led to the Bowery's decline in the 19th and 20th centuries. Though it had once hosted elegant theaters, the makeup of the neighborhood changed after the Civil War. Beginning in 1875, the construction of the Third Avenue Elevated railway cast a literal shadow over the Bowery. According to NYCity Media, the El made living in the B...

    In the latter half of the 20th century, the Bowery transformed again. Its "otherness" attracted artists like William Burroughs and Mark Rothko in the 1960s. And the opening of the iconic CBGBclub in 1973 turned the Bowery into a punk rock mecca. Soon, it hosted acts like Patti Smith and The Ramones. But the Bowery's edgy, alternative reputation did...

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  3. Oct 26, 2018 · This peddler sits on his bedroll, atop two barrels, in his cellar home. New immigrants to New York City in the late 1800s faced grim, cramped living conditions in tenement housing that once ...

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  4. Jan 4, 2022 · In the 1970s, New York City was a broken, ungovernable metropolis barreling into anarchy. New Yorkers remember this decade as the bleakest, most crime-ridden, and most uncertain time the city has ever faced. It was a time of economic, criminal, and cultural shifts occurring at once that changed the city’s prospects.

  5. An African-American boy in the ghetto, South Bronx, NY. of 1. Browse Getty Images’ premium collection of high-quality, authentic New York Ghetto stock photos, royalty-free images, and pictures. New York Ghetto stock photos are available in a variety of sizes and formats to fit your needs.

  6. Feb 13, 2013 · February 13, 2013 4:00 AM EST. W hen I arrived in New York City in 1970, the Bronx was burning. I was photographing New York City during the Vietnam War before it barely escaped bankruptcy and ...

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