Tag: New York

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Christmas in The Big Apple 120 years ago: Black and white pictures show crowds of shoppers buying presents and preparing for holidays in New York City in the early 1900s

Рождество в “Большом яблоке” 120 лет назад: Черно-белые фотографии показывают толпы покупателей, покупающих подарки и готовящихся к праздникам в Нью-Йорке в начале 1900-х годов This fascinating series of vintage photographs shows how New Yorkers were preparing for Christmas over a hundred years ago. The pictures – taken between 1900 and 1916 – feature everyday scenes […]

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Diallo Truth, Diallo Falsehood / Истина про Диалло, ложь про Диалло

FROM THE MAGAZINE For three months, the Diallo tragedy convulsed New York. But most accounts of it—the Times’s above all—were politically motivated distortions. The city is the worse for them. В течение трех месяцев трагедия Диалло сотрясала Нью-Йорк. Но большинство рассказов о ней – прежде всего опубликованных в (Нью-Йорк) “Таймс” – были политически мотивированными искажениями. Городу […]

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Photographer who spent years on the mean streets of NYC with the NYPD reveals the arrests AND camaraderie of the violent and turbulent 1970s and ’80s

Фотограф, проведшая годы на злачных улицах Нью-Йорка с полицейскими Нью-Йорка, рассказывает об арестах и братстве по оружию в течение жестоких и бурных 1970-х и 1980-х годов The gritty black-and-white photographs speak to a time of violence, soaring crimes, budget problems and cuts, and several calamities New York City faced: fiscal, a burgeoning HIV/AIDS crisis, and the scourge […]

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Studio 54: Inside the New York City’s Most Infamous Nightclub in the Late 1970s

On April 16, 1977, crowds of hip revelers cheered as nightclub Studio 54 first opened its doors at a building on 54th Street in New York City. These images capture the world’s most famous nightclub Studio 54 during its 33-month existence, populated by celebrities such as Michael Jackson, Rod Stewart and Andy Warhol. The wild […]

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Looters trash Soho: Smashed windows at Gucci, Chanel and Bloomingdales in New York City

Soho in New York City was ravaged by looters on Sunday night who smashed the windows of luxury stores like Gucci, Chanel and Bloomingdales to steal goods in a wild night of riots that saw more than 250 arrests, cops being injured and one man being shot.  It remains unclear if those who smashed up […]