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Arts & Entertainment
Look Back At 1979 NYC Through This Tourist's Old Photos
Photos from one young man's trip to NYC in the 1970s, when the city was known as 'Fear City.'
By
Jen Carlson
Arts & Entertainment
Here's A Man On The Street Interview From 1979
New Yorkers talk about the upcoming Information Age in 1979, when computers still seemed confusing to everyone.
By
Jen Carlson
Arts & Entertainment
Here's The 1979 Commercial For Brooklyn's Starrett City Apartments
Here's Starrett City, "the country's largest federally subsidized housing complex," in 1979.
By
Jen Carlson
News
Suspect In Etan Patz Murder Reportedly At Bellevue, On Suicide Watch
Hernandez may be on suicide watch.
By
Jen Chung
News
Etan Patz Disappearance Suspect Allegedly Said He Stabbed Or Strangled The Boy
Sources claim that the suspect either strangled, stabbed or stabbed and strangled the boy, possibly dismembering his body, and then dumping it on the street in a bag or a box.
By
Jen Chung
News
NYPD: Man Implicated Himself In 1979 Etan Patz Murder
The suspect was apparently picked up in NJ yesterday.
By
Jen Chung
Arts & Entertainment
Video: A Disco Fashion Show In Park Slope, 1979
By 1979 disco was inescapable in New York City. WKTU Disco 92 FM had risen from obscurity to unseat the #1 radio station in town, WABC.
By
Christopher Robbins
Arts & Entertainment
Take 31 Seconds To Watch This 1979 Dog Disco Video
Do yourself a favor and watch these dogs in a disco in 1979 New York City.
By
Jen Carlson
Arts & Entertainment
Video: Wall Street Was Occupied In 1979
You get the essential visions of the NYPD dragging protesters away, a brass band, and besuited brokers chomping on cigars.
By
Christopher Robbins
Arts & Entertainment
Flashback: New York City, 1978-1980
A new set of old photos has been unearthed and digitized (hat
By
Jen Carlson
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