Travel Back to NYC in the 1970s
21 photos
<p>Joan Baez at the War is Over Rally in Central Park, May 1975.</p>
<p>Grace Slick and The Jefferson Starship perform in Central Park.</p>
<p>Jimmy Carter Chief of Staff Hamilton Jordan and Warren Beatty at the 1976 Democratic Convention.</p>
<p>Marijuana Smoke-In and March from Central Park to Washington Square. Man in Richard Nixon mask smokes a joint after taking his pants off.</p>
<p>Terence Galagher tends the Bellevue Hospital Mortuary.</p>
<p>The "body" of King Kong lies in the WTC plaza after falling from the top of the building.</p>
<p>A member of the Chingalings Motorcycle Club pushes another biker at the entrance to their rent-free city-owned clubhouse in the South Bronx.</p>
<p>John Lennon and Yoko Ono during the filming of a video to promote their new album, "Double Fantasy", New York City, November 26, 1980.</p>
<p>Sid Vicious in a body bag.</p>
<p>Truman Capote at the bar with a friend at Studio 54 in 1977.</p>
<p>Long-abandoned Pier 48 being used by gay men as a rendezvous for casual sex.</p>
<p>Country music star Dolly Parton hugs rock star Mick Jagger backstage after her Bottom Line concert. 5/14/77.</p>
<p>Time Square Hooker waiting on the street.</p>
<p>Blondie cooking at home.</p>
<p>A boy jumps off a jungle gym on to a mattress in a vacant lot in the Lower East Side.</p>
<p>The boxer Snooks at Gleason's Gym reads about Nixon and Watergate.</p>
<p>This one is actually from February 2nd, 1980. Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis campaigning for Ted Kennedy in Astoria, Queens.</p>
<p>Stripper Candy Love is arrested for going topless in front of City Hall in a one-person protest.</p>
<p>Antidraft demonstrators holding a sit-in at the General Post Office do not deter a man in shorts from sending his post.</p>
<p>Residents of Chinatown celebrate the year of the Tiger with a dragon and fireworks.</p>
<p>Transit Authority K-9 Police use German Shepherds on the subway to deter crime.</p>