Metro New York 70-80. Bashny.Net

New York was the capital city of culture in the 70s-80s. But he was also a very dangerous city. Photographs taken 30-40 years ago, will make you feel the difference between "then" and "now". User site Reddit Chewbacker published a photo captured by Martha Cooper, who became known for his pictures of graffiti at the dawn of street art (long before Banksy). The photo shows two police officers in a subway car and graffiti. It was a time when not only the graffiti painted on the streets and literally everywhere, where it was possible and impossible.

Like Cooper, many photographers took pictures of graffiti, as well as the frightening scenes that drew a very different New York, gritty and full of danger.

At least one of these photos, you can imagine how much the city has changed. And if now you are more likely to meet people with a mobile phone or a newspaper in his hands, the sooner it can be people with knives and pistols.