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32 Revealing Photos Of New York City In The 1970s

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1. Two girls posing in front of a graffiti wall in Lynch Park, Brooklyn.

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2. Passengers entering a Lexington Avenue subway car.

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3. Children running down an abandoned slide in Coney Island.

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4. Three young children on Bond Street in Brooklyn.

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5. People talking on pay phones at Broadway and 34th Street.

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6. A car left rusting in Jamaica Bay.

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7. A man reading the newspaper at the Lexington Avenue subway station.

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8. A family waiting for a train to arrive at the Lexington Avenue subway station.

9. Children playing at the East River Park playground in Manhattan.

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10. Murals at the Hell's Kitchen Playground.

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11. The Manhattan Bridge as seen from Brooklyn.

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12. People checking out some boats floating in the East River.

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13. A older man reading the newspaper on the subway.

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14. A man lying down on a bench at the Riis Park boardwalk.

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15. A woman sitting on a graffiti-filled subway car.

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16. Three boys striking a pose in Lynch Park.

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17. A fire set by the Brooklyn Polytechnic Institute tests wires and insulations.

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18. A political mural in lower Manhattan.

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19. A woman reading the New York Post on the subway.

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20. A line of taxis getting stuck in traffic.

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21. Two boys playing Frisbee across West 46th Street in Manhattan.

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22. Children at the Kosciusko public swimming pool in Brooklyn's Bedford-Stuyvesant neighborhood.

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23. A mural of black sports heroes on Nostrand Avenue in Brooklyn.

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24. People hanging out in East River Park in Manhattan.

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25. An apartment terrace garden above 170 West End Avenue.

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26. A home partially gutted by fire in Lynch Park.

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27. The 1 train covered in graffiti.

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28. An abandoned ice cream truck in Jamaica Bay.

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29. Apartment houses in Fort Greene, Brooklyn.

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30. Young people hanging out on a stoop in Lynch Park.

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31. A tired woman riding the subway.

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32. Passengers waiting for the train at the 86th Street subway station.

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