Rare pictures of New York of the seventies

We suggest you look at the atmospheric images of New York early 70s. Agree on the pictures it looks more like a ghetto and a huge dump than the city.

Children playing on an abandoned car in the South Bronx.




Houses on Fifth Avenue. East Harlem.



An abandoned car on the street. South Bronx.



View of Manhattan and Brooklyn Bridge.



View of the WTC towers being built with an abandoned ferry terminal in New Jersey.



View of the World Trade Center.



Pier with the old subway car in southern Brooklyn.



Bronx River.



Scrap metal collector on the way to Harlem.



View from the Brooklyn Bridge.



Projects under the WTC.



Children in the South Bronx.



East Harlem.



Children play in the streets of the South Bronx.



Children play in the streets of the South Bronx.



Children with dog. Williamsburg, Brooklyn.



The dolls in the window. South Bronx.



Teens in the South Bronx.



Old men. Lower East Side.



The boy from the South Bronx.



South Bronx.



Angle E158 St. and 3rd Ave., Bronx.



Mott Haven, Bronx.



Lower East Side.



Lower East Side.







School children and dogs. Bronx.



Parachute tower at Coney Island.



Abandoned and burned cars. Bronx.



The subway car. South Bronx.



Bronx River. Bronx.



Drunk lying on the steps of a house in the South Bronx.



South Bronx.



Children play with a broken toy. Bronx.



Cadillac Fleetwood in Harlem.



Drunk on the street of the South Bronx.



Children drink water from a hydrant. Lower East Side.



South Bronx.



Puerto Rican wedding in East Harlem.



Children playing with puppets in Harlem Votochnom.



The man reading the newspaper. South Bronx.



South Bronx.



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