The Museum of the City of New York has published a collection of photos from Edmund V. Gillon that capture street scenes in New York in the 1970s and 1980s.
Gillon has published more than a dozen books on New York City, the museum notes.
Some of the city’s landscape looks the same today as it did back then, but some areas look drastically different.
Today’s downtown skyline is missing the Twin Towers, and Times Square has transformed dramatically since the ’70s with the addition of many more lit-up billboards and signs.
We’ve published a selection of Gillon’s photos with permission from the museum.
Times Square didn’t used to look nearly as intense as it does today.Edmund V. Gillon/Museum of the City of New YorkAnd Broadway near 7th Avenue and West 43rd Street was also a lot calmer.
Edmund V. Gillon/Museum of the City of New YorkPeople paused to take photos and sit on benches at busy Rockefeller Center.
