*I'm continuing on my seemingly never-ending mission to clean out, re-organize and purge the TATSOL/ NYCDreamin' Archives. As such, here, for your perusal, viewing pleasure and consideration, nearly forty additional 1970-era NYC images (color and B&W) from old magazines, books, etc. I've listed source/credit where available.
Smog-choked NYC Skyline - 1970
(New Book of Knowledge Annual 1970)
A blanket of air pollution hangs over New York City, all but hiding the sun.
Kids plant flowers on Broadway in New York City, Earth Day 1970.
New York City children demonstrate against air pollution on Earth Day.
(Photo by Leslie Keystone)
Angry because garbage had not been picked up for days, some residents of Brownsville in New York City started garbage fires and looted stores.
(New York Times)
This photograph of East Bay, Long Island, NY, shows the extensive los of wetlands due to housing, roads, and commercial developments, which also pollute the waters of the bay. Population density is a key feature of this suburb.
(Laurence R. Lowry from Ralph Guillumette)
Construction Workers in New York City march to City Hall, waving flags and carrying placards to demonstrate their massive support for U.S. President Richard M. Nixon.
(Wide World)
Hard Hat Demonstrator - 03/08/70
(David Moore/Black Star)
Mini-clad Phyllis Tweel (right), founder of GAMS (Girls against More Skirt) leads her group in a demonstration against the maxi and the midi.
1970 was a year of demonstrations for equal rights. A new force on the scene was Women's Liberation. Dozens of different groups, attracting women of all ages, were organized togain "first class citizenship" for women.
Their rallying cry was "Women of the world unite," and their demands ranged from "equal pay for equal work" to free day-care centers.
Satire played a role in some demonstrations for women's rights, as in New York City, where the point was made that women are not robots, chattel, or toys.
(Marc and Evelyne Bernheim from Rapho Guillumette)
New York City Jews demonstrate against Soviet support of the Arab states. Other demonstrations protested discrimination against Jews in Russia.
Chanting "Say it loud, Gay is proud!" thousands of young people marched for Gay Liberation on June 28th in New York City. They were led by the Gay Activist Alliance and other homosexual groups.
(Russell Reif from Pictorial Parade)
Thousands of people in the book publishing and film industries in New York City stopped work for one day in June to campaign for peace candidates and to distribute boks and leaflets against the Indochina war.
(New York Times)
A militant group took over a building of the Lincoln Hospital in the Bronx, New York City, to protest inadequate medical care.
(UPI Compix)
Twelve-year-old heroin addict Ralph DeJesus testifies at a state legislative hearing in New York City. The boy, accompanied by his doctor, described his experiences to the legislators.
(Wide World)
A member of Phoenix House, a New York City supported home for treatment of youthful drug users - tells young people about the dangers of drug use. The pre-teenagers were contestants in an antinarcotics poster contest.
Welfare recipients are among the clients of this mental health center in Brooklyn, NY. A group discusses the rearing of children.
(New York Times)
Millions of New Yorkers participated in the summer lottery of 1970 in New York State. THe first prize was $1 million. The winner will be paid at the rate of $50,000 per year for the next 20 years, to reduce the income tax rate.
(Russell Reif from Pictorial Parade)
The largest transfer of stocks and bonds in the history of Wall Street was made in February [1970.] Security guards survey the movement of $3 Billion worth of certificates to the new location of the brokerage house Bache and Co.
(UPI Compix)
Policemen arrest Peter Huang outside the Plaza Hotel in New York City after his abortive attempt to assinate Chiang Ching-kuo, son and heir apparent of Nationalist China's leader Chiang Kai-shek.
(Wide World)
Robert Dick was head taster of the Federal Board of Tea Tasters until the board was bloished by U.S. President Richard M. Nixon in February [1970.] In his large New York City office, Dick samples some tea. He estimated that he tasted 20,000 cups of tea a year while the board was in operation.
(Wide World)
A new computer hiring system replaces the old hiring hall for longshoremen who work on a daily basis for the Port of New York.
(New York Times)
In New York City an increasing number of black people were taking advantage of a program of architectural training that was sponsored by the Architects Committee in Harlem.
(New York Times)
The hilarious spoof 'Cotton Comes To Harlem' proved to be a box-ofice smash in 1970. It was a wild detective comedy featuring a large cast of blacks.
(United Artists)
In October inmates of the Queens House of Detention in Newe York City took over the prison and seized seven hostages. The men were demanding major prison reforms.
(Wide World)
(From unknown book)
This photograph is from the exhibition "East 100th Street" by Bruce Davidson at the Museum of Modern Art in New York City. THe exhibition prints and the book from which they were taken are the result of Davidson's two-year photographic study of the residents of a single block in East Harlem.
(Bruce Davidson from Magnum)
Sidewalk art on Madison Avenue between 78th and 79th streets in New York City is the work of artist Alexander Calder.
(Wide World)
An office building in New York City has been transformed into Westbeth artists' housing with loft-type living and working units.
(Laurence Fried)
Flat Iron Building, New York City
(Time-Life)
THe Westyard Building in New York City, designed by Davis, Brody & Associates, is built over railroad tracks (bottom of photograph). Such use of airspace above railroads and highways in crowded cities is becoming more common.
CSNY @ Fillmore East - 1970
(Rolling Stone Magazine - Issue N/A)
(2006 Rolling Stone Magazine Advertisement)Coming soon: Random Images from New York City circa 1971.
For additional random NYC images, many seen right here at TATSOL during the past 3 and a half years, some of them
not seen here previously, visit my NYC Image Archives on Flickr:
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NYCDreamin NYC Archives Vol. I (1,000 images)
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NYCDreamin NYC Archives Vol. II (435 images and growing)
