1970s New York City

The construction of the World Trade Center seen from New Jersey, in 1970; the North Tower was completed first. 

World Trade Center under construction circa 1970.

a few weeks later looking from N.J.

12 July 1971. 

early 1971.

1971.

2nd Avenue with 26th Street looking North - 1972.

New York's dark side - 1970s.

Apollo Theater - 1971.

5th Ave. & 39th Street on 30th April 1972 - Joe Testagrose photo. Rita Seale wrote in 2 November 2014: I have such a nostalgia for this area. I worked at 10 E. 40th Street for 20 years beginning in 1971. Kress was a great store - multi-leveled Art Deco design inside as outside, and Woolworth's was across 5th Ave. Both stores had long lunch counters. Lord & Taylor, Abraham & Strauss, Peck & Peck and B.Altman a few blocks down on 34th Street.

Broadway & 42nd Street on 4th June 1972.

'The Godfather' release date: 15 March 1972, at Loew's State Theater.

Broadway, July 1972.

Spanish Harlem, July 1972. 

Mulberry Street looking North, Little Italy, in the 1970s. 

'The exorcist' was realeased on 26 December 1973. This is probably Spring 1974.

10 years before, in 1964, the smoker's hair cut was shorter but the smoking was the same...

looking North up 5th Avenue from 42nd Street on 9th September 1974.

New York bay on 4th July 1976. 

9th Avenue with W 34th Street on a late afternoon in 1978. 

42nd Street & 8th Avenue circa 1978.

42nd Street off 7th Avenue in 1978.

7th Ave. towards 49th Street in 1978; see 'Deep throat' and 'Devil in Miss Jones' double-feature.

7th Avenue & 45th Street after a snow fall in February 1979.

Hemsley Building circa 1979. 

Empire Estate Building looking south along 5th Avenue from Rockefeller Center circa 1980. 

1960s New York City

Frederick Kelly photo; 'Hannibal' with Victor Mature opened on 15 June 1960.

Empire State building in the smog of 1961 squeezed between two whoppers...

clergy & laity walk the streets of NYC - 'Sweet Charity' opened on 1st April 1969.

Crowd wait the arrival of 1964 on New Year's Eve at Times Square; 'Move over, darling' with Doris Day, James Garner & Chuck Connors opened on 25 December 1963. 

49th Street towards 6th Avenue in the early 1960s.

Broadway & 49th Street in 1960; assassination attempt on PM Kishi was in 60.

Broadway towards 50th Street in 1962.

The Paramount Theatre was a 3,664-seat movie palace located at 43rd Street & Broadway on Times Square. Opened in 1926, it was a showcase theatre and the New York headquarters of Paramount Pictures. Adolph Zukor, founder of Paramount predecessor Famous Players Film Company, maintained an office in the building until his death in 1976. The Paramount Theatre eventually became a popular live performance venue for the likes of Frank Sinatra etc. The theater was closed in 1964 and its space converted to office and retail use. The tower which housed it, known as the Paramount Building at 1501 Broadway, is in commercial use as an office building and is still home to Paramount Pictures offices. Posted by David Brown at FB. 'Hud' with Paul Newman, Patricia Neal & Melvyn Douglas opened on 29 May 1963.

Broadway & 46th Street in 1965.

5th Avenue & 50th Street - view from the steps of Saint Patrick's Cathedral in 1965.

Times Square-Duffy Square in 1966.

Broadway towards 48th Street circa 1967; "The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie", a 1966 stage play based on the 1961 novel by Muriel Spark, starring Vanessa Redgrave & Olivia Hussey, which later transferred to Broadway starring Zoe Caldwell; Joshua Logan's 'Camelot' based on a play by Alan Jay Lerner opened at the Warner Theatre on 25 October 1967, with Richard Harris, Vanessa Redgrave, Franco Nero & David Hemmings. 

Castro Convertibles store at Times Square (actually Duffy Square) in 1967. Peter S. Alexander wrote on FB: I always thought the name Castro presented in big bold letters in the Square of the city that most represented American capitalism was at once ironic and iconic. As for the recliners and convertibles they could have never fit in my walk up on E 4th St. Marc Landman wrote on FB: We had a Castro, a company started by an Italian immigrant.

Corner of 42nd Street & Fifth Avenue in the Spring of 1968. 

Broadway & 47th Street in 1970.

Janis Joplin next to Hotel Chesea on 46 West 17th Street, in 1969.

1950s New York City

7th Avenue toward 44th St. in 1956.

Broadway towards 46th St. in 1954. 'On the waterfront' with Marlon Brando was playing at the cinema on the right.

same ladies, different angle: now one can see the huge billboard announcing Judy Garland in 'A star is born'...

Broadway corner 44th Street in 1950. 

7th Avenue & 46th St. in 1952.

'The miracle of Our Lady of Fatima' opened on 20 August 1952, at the Astor; Gary Cooper's 'High Noon' opened on 24 July 1952, just across the street. 

'Sailor beware', with Jerry Lewis & Dean Martin plays at the Mayfair as of 9 February 1952.

Photo taken from the NYTimes building in 1952. 

'Against all flags' opened at the Capitol on 24 December 1952; Johnny Ray & Ray Anthony's orchestra in person at each session.

Gui Castro Neves wrote at FB: The Capitol Theatre (1919-1968), in Times Square as it is shown in the movie 'The barefoot Contessa' in which Johnnie Ray (1927-1990), Ray Anthony (20 January 1922) and Gloria Gibbs (1918-2006) play cameo roles. Coincidentally, 'The barefoot Contessa' would open at the same Capitol Theatre on 29 September 1954. 

RCA building, 1953.

42nd St. & 8th Avenue in 1953. 'The juggler' with Kirk Douglas & Kim Novak plays at the Anco Theatre.

A peek out of Hotel Astor on 29 November 1951.

Chrysler Building reflected on a pool on 42nd Street near 5th Avenue in a photo taken by Frank Oscar Larson in 1953. 

42nd Street off 7th Avenue, in 1953. 

Bob Hope & Rosemary Clooney in 'Here come the girls' which opened on 22nd October 1953; Charlton Heston & Lizabeth Scott in the film-noir 'Bad for each other' which opened on 24 December 1953. 

Times Square on rainy night in 1954. 

43rd Street with the Paramount Theatre on the left looking North Times Square in 1954.

'My sister Eileen' with Jack Lemmon & Janet Leigh opened on 22nd September 1955, at the Victoria. 

3rd Ave. & 83rd St. in 1955, after the 3rd Ave El was taken down; the sidewalks were cut back; 5 feet were shaved off each side. This is a 'before' picture.

Broadway corner of 46th Street in 1950; 'Annie get your gun' with Betty Hutton plays at the State Theater.

Broadway & 47th Street in 1954, with Cinerama playing for the 3rd year in a row.

Broadway & 44th Street in 1955.

7th Avenue-Broadway & 44th Street in 1955.

Broadway & 45th St. in 1956; 'The man who never was' with Gloria Grahme and 'Meet me in Las Vegas' with Cyd Charisse.

Broadway & 47th Street in 1955.

1955.

Times Square; 'Chicago Syndicate' opened in July 1955 at the Criterion. 

Broadway towards 44th St. in 1955. WRCA was the forerunner of WNBC, Channel 4.

5th Avenue & 49th Street in 1955.

6th Avenue toward 50th Street in 1954.

50th Street towards 6th Avenue in 1956.

7th Avenue toward 43rd St. with the Paramount Theater presenting Frank Sinatra & Tommy & Jimmy Dorsey in 1956.

'Man of a thousand faces' with James Cagney released on 13 August 1957 - 47th Street.

'Love me tender' started on 15 November 1956, at the Paramount Theatre in Manhattan.

Llama on Broadway... 'Bells are ringing' opened on 29 November 1956 at Shubert Theater at 225 West 44th Street in Midtown, Manhattan.

Sidney Poitier next to a subway entrance in 1956. 

Sidney Portier on 42nd Street; 'Broken star', with Howard Duff opened on April 1956. 

walking down the Avenue... circa 1959.

break of dawn, 1958. 

Times Square in 1959 - 'Ben-Hur' plays on a theatre at the left-hand side; Anita Geismer Family Archives.