Retired detective thinks 1970 Bronx murder of teenage girl could be linked to serial killer Son of Sam and wants case reopened

Five years before New York City was terrorized by the ‘ Son of Sam’ killer David Berkowitz back in the 1970s, a teenage girl ...
Yardbarker

Fantastic films that show what life was like in 1970s New York

New York City has been front and center in hundreds of movies. That has been true since the early days of film, and it is still valid. However, the idea of “1970s New York” is the decade of the city ...
CNN

They met in New York’s Plaza Hotel in 1970. Here’s what happened next

In 1969, Stefano Ripamonti was feeling good about life. He was in his late twenties, working a glamorous job at an Italian high fashion shoe firm. He’d recently married his childhood sweetheart and ...
Hyperallergic

Peter Hujar's Photographs of the Downtown Legends of 1970s New York City

In the comparatively safe, sleek, and expensive New York City of today, nostalgia for the crime-ridden, scummy, and cheap New York City of the 1970s is as strong as ever. Pace McGill and Paul Kasmin ...
Yardbarker

20 albums that defined New York City in the 1970s

Billy Joel's 1977 magnum opus, "The Stranger," is hailed by many as an album that defined the New York experience with its sound. But Joel wasn't the only sound in town at the time, as the City that ...
Untapped Cities

Fun Maps: The Now Extinct “Train to the Plane” on 1970s NYC Subway Maps

In this installment of Fun Maps, we looked at a 1970’s New York City subway map we had lying around the Untapped HQ and we found subway relic of the past. On September 23rd, 1978, amidst struggles to ...
Hyperallergic

Edmund V. Gillon's Vision of 1970s and '80s New York

Edmund V. Gillon, [Donald Judd House and Museum, 101 Spring Street.] (c. 1974), polyester negative, 4 x 5 in (all images collections.mcny.org) Sometimes it seems like troves of old photos of New York ...
Yahoo

Meet the Jewish grandmother who ran New York’s gritty 1970s porn scene

From the late 1960s until the mid-1980s, adult entertainment films dominated the theaters along 42nd Street between 7th and 8th Avenue in New York City, earning it the nickname “The Deuce”. Throughout ...
Wall Street Journal

Lessons for California in New York’s 1970s Comeback

Journal Editorial Report: Congress may demand changes in California. Photo: Allison Dinner/Shutterstock The battle to contain the recent wildfires in Los Angeles calls to mind New York City’s fiscal ...
Jewish Telegraphic Agency

He kicked off the 1970s klezmer revival. Now, he’s paying tribute to New York’s vast global music scene.

Walter Zev Feldman’s “From the Bronx to the Bosphorus: Klezmer and Other Displaced Musics of New York” is part ethnomusicological treatise and part memoir. Walter Zev Feldman, 76, is an authority on ...
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The ‘prophet of urban doom’ says a 1970s-style ‘doom loop’ is here for New York City, and it’s just the first inning of the ballgame

As nicknames go, Columbia Business School professor Stijn Van Nieuwerburgh has a doozy. The gray lady herself, The New York Times, dubbed him the “prophet of urban doom” last year for his forecasts ...