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Maybe it’s the hardcore at CBGB; Reed waiting for his man; Warhol’s Factory; Blondie pioneering new wave, disco giving guitars groove. Maybe it was watching ’80s TV movie The Children of Times Square as a […]

"The Flatbush Hustle. Flatbush Junction, Brooklyn 1988." | Ph: Jamel Shabazz

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New York, New York, 1984

Photographer Ash Thayer’s upcoming photo project follows the Lower East Side squatters of the 1990’s, entitled “Kill City.”

Thirteenth Avenue in Borough Park Brooklyn New York Photo shot on 13th Ave facing toward da " L " ( aka elevated train line ) Does anyone remember "RED's" on 13th Avenue ? That was the only place open at night in the winter. It was very lonely "end of the line" for the bus drivers. A time and place you can't capture on film. I took my camera over there when I read they were finally going to pull down the mighty ( but rusting ) Culver Shuttle. Photo Shot : Circa 1984 (or was it 1983?)…

These photographs of the New York City subway system were taken mostly from the 1970s and early '80s, when graffiti was a mainstay on train cars and everything underground was, for the most part, grittier and more worn than it is today... (Images via WHATCHUWRITE?'s Flickr)

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Old new york city subway graffiti during the 1980's

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© photo by Paul Wright This is Saint Marks Place as it looked in November 1982. The shop with dresses hanging up in the window is Trash and Vaudeville, which is famous for supplying stars like The Ramones and Debbie Harry of Blondie with clothing during the golden age of punk rock in the 1970s and 80s. The store opened in 1975 and is still in its original location. Next door is the Valencia Hotel which was home to beat writer William S. Burroughs in the early 1970s. In the 1980s punk rock…

Summer in the city. 1981. Betsy Head pool. Brownsville, Brooklyn. #nycphotography#brownsvillebrooklyn#bestyheadpool#brooklyn#brooklynmade#backintheday#family#the80s#jamelshabazz#pose#.

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Some more golden goodies from Brooklyn…. Photo: Gary Fonville Though Fulton Street in downtown Brooklyn has tried hard to homogenize and mall-ify itself over the last 20 years, a…

I came across the photography of Cactusbones on Flickr. She has plenty of LES/East Village urban landscape photos from her time here in the mid-1980s. Her photos include: Life Cafe An abandoned lot on Seventh Street between Avenue B and Avenue C Looking north on Avenue C at Seventh Street And for grins, I tried to line up the same shot today Thanks to Cactusbones for permission to post these photos. She has more here.

#4 train passing Jerome & McClellan.

Long before it was figuring into the plotlines of popular shows like Gossip Girl or luring in fresh-faced transplants with false promises of spacious lofts filled with likeminded creative types, Brooklyn was synonymous with the idea of hip-hop…

80's NYC Subway