If you want to time-travel through New York City’s most iconic streets in the 1970s, this YouTube video is a gritty, soulful ride. It showcases places like:
• Times Square: Neon-lit but notorious, filled with adult theaters, hustlers, and the pulse of a city on edge.
• Sedgwick Avenue: The birthplace of hip-hop, where DJ Kool Herc sparked a cultural revolution.
• East Village & Bowery: Punk rock, underground art, and counterculture thrived amid urban decay.
• Union Square: A hotbed for protests and political expression.
• Harlem & South Bronx: Communities grappling with poverty and crime, yet rich in resilience and creativity.
Photographers like Camilo José Vergara documented the era with haunting clarity—capturing boarded-up buildings, graffiti-covered subways, and the raw humanity of neighborhoods like East Harlem and the South Bronx. Flashbak also offers a visual feast of street scenes from Brooklyn, Manhattan, and Harlem, showing everything from Cadillac Fleetwoods to domino games on Houston Street.