Gritty Photos Show The Street Life Of New York City From The 1970s

#1 Forty Second Street at 5th Ave., 1970

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#2 St. Paul’s Chapel with the WTC under construction in the background, Broadway at Fulton St., Manhattan, 1970

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#3 Girl, South Bronx, 1970

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#4 Avenue C, Lower East Side, 1970

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#5 On the Way to Harlem, 1970

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#6 Melrose Section, South Bronx, 1970

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#7 143 Lenox Ave. Harlem, 1970

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#8 Puerto Rican Family, Lower East Side, 1970

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#9 172 Delancey Ave., New York, 1970

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#10 Lower East Side, NYC, 1973

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#11 Lower East Side, 1970

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#12 1148 Longwood Ave., Bronx, 1970

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#13 South Bronx, 1970

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#14 Girls, East Harlem, 1970

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#15 Puerto Rican Wedding, East Harlem, 1970

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#16 South Bronx, 1971

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#17 View South from Longwoods Ave., Bronx, 1970

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#18 Lower East Side, NYC, 1970

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#19 Lower Manhattan, 1974

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#20 Pier, South Brooklyn, 1970

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#21 View East from St. Ann’s Ave. at Westchester Ave., Bronx, 1970.

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#22 Bolivian Indian, 1355 Park Ave., Harlem, 1970

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#23 View SW from the foot of the Manhattan Bridge, Brooklyn, 1970

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#24 View SW from the foot of the Manhattan Bridge, Brooklyn, 1971

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#25 View of the World Trade Center under construction from Duane Street, Manhattan, 1970.

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#26 The homeless man in this image woke up as he was being photographed and asked Vergara to buy him a ham sandwich.

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#27 View east from West St. along Fulton St., Manhattan 1970

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#28 Lower East Side, 1970

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#29 South Bronx, 1970

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#30 Militant display, Window, Bushwick Brooklyn, 1970

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#31 East 167th Street, S. Bronx, 1973

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#32 Playground Williamsburg, Brooklyn, 1970

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#33 Brooklyn, 1970

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#34 IRT, Bronx, 1970

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#35 Reataurant, Mott Haven, Bronx, 1970

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#36 Butcher, Lower East Side, 1970

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#37 Parachute jump, Coney Island, Brooklyn, 1970

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#38 Bronx River with #5 line in back, Bronx, 1970

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#39 Bronx, 1970

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#40 Number 2 Subway, S. Bronx, 1970

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#41 Auto repair shop, Bronx, 1973.

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#42 Hoe Avenue at 172nd St., Bronx, 1970

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#43 Hunts Point, South Bronx, 1970

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#44 Entrance, abandonened building, Bronx, 1970

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#45 Grafitti on the side of the Manhattan Bridge, Manhattan, 1970

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#46 Stripped Pontiac LeMans under the Brooklyn Bridge, Manhattan, 1970

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#47 Cadillac Fleetwood, Harlem 1970

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#48 South Bronx, 1970

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#49 Eagle at Westchester Ave., Bronx 1970

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#50 Honeywell at 178th St. S. Bronx, 1970

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#51 Commodore Theater, Broadway at Rodney, Brooklyn, 1970

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#52 East Harlem, 1970

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#53 Hank, Lower East Side, 1970

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#54 S. Bronx, by the Cross Bronx Expressway east, 1970

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#55 View from elevated subway line, Westchester Avenue, South Bronx

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#56 Fifth Ave. at 110th St. E. Harlem 1970

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#57 Coney Island, Brooklyn, 1971

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#58 Gipsy girl, Lower East Side, 1970

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#59 Boy, South Bronx, 1970

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#60 Boy, Morrisania, S. Bronx, 1970

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#61 Lower East Side, Manhattan, 1970

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#62 Williamsburg, Brooklyn, 1970

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#63 East 172nd St. at Hoe Ave. South Bronx, 1970

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#64 Watching a Socialist Workers Party march, Lower East Side, 1970

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#65 Lower East Side, New York, 1970

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#66 Bronx River at 177th St., Bronx, 1970

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#67 Lower East Side, NYC, 1970

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