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everybodystreet:

When I think of 1970’s New York City, the first thing that comes to mind for me is former mayor Ed Koch. Growing up in North NJ, we would drive to the Garden for concerts or come in for Yankees games all the time. The West Side highway was littered with graffiti-covered car carcasses. If you got a flat tire and left for 5 minutes, you might come back to a completely stripped car, absolutely nothing left. In the South Bronx, Koch had murals painted on the cinder blocked-up windows of abandoned buildings. Flowerpots, pink curtains, smiling kids. All just completely fake, just trying to make it look not so bad. Koch asked the federal government to bail out NYC, and they told him to stick it. every time I crossed the George Washington bridge, I figured it was 50/50 I’d make home alive. On the brink of bankruptcy, Koch kept the city together with his feisty tenacity… it was scary, thrilling, and amazing, and I miss that feeling.
In his interview for this film, Everybody Street, Luc Sante said the following to me:

“Younger people today will say, ‘Yeah, but aren’t you glad that the crime rate is down?’ when I complain about the city today, and you know, I didn’t have any money, so I wasn’t afraid of crime. I did get my stereo stolen, which was a big blow, because it took me three years to replace it, but hell, weighing that against paying astronomical rent, I’d take getting ripped off any day.”
We will miss you Ed Koch. Rest In Peace.
- Cheryl Dunn, director, Everybody Street
photo credit: Martha Cooper (from her book Street Play, which features the “complete bombed-out war zone” of the late 1970s Lower East Side)

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littlebigcreative:

Photographer: Martha Cooper // NYC 1982

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desirecaughtbythetail:

brilliant.

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littlebigcreative:

Artist: Dondi // Photographer: Martha Cooper // At the New Lots Yards // Brooklyn 1982

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hahahawherearewe:

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losed:

USA. 1950. North Carolina. Segregated water fountains with black man drinking water
by Elliott Erwitt

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mmmdanone:

from Russia with love

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mmmdanone:

from Russia with love

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why don’t you guys ever send me weird anon asks what am I doing wrong

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