5. Max’s Kansas City
Mercer Arts Center
CBGB & OMFUG
Fillmore East – East Village
Club 82
Mudd Club
Tier 3
6. "Diner," from 1976, speaks to Hujar's fascination with urban ruins —
and the sense of decay that informed the city in those
years.Credit...Courtesy of Peter Hujar Archive LLC, courtesy of
Pace/MacGill Gallery, New York and Fraenkel Gallery, San Francisco
The photographs in this story are by the late Peter Hujar (1934-87), one of the key figures in New
York’s downtown art scene. Here, "Nassau Street," 1975, taken in the financial
district.Credit...Courtesy of Peter Hujar Archive LLC, courtesy of Pace/MacGill Gallery, New York and
Fraenkel Gallery, San Francisco
"Mural at Piers," 1983, shot at an abandoned pier on Canal Street whose walls were
covered with paintings by a group of East Village artists.Credit...Courtesy of Peter
Hujar Archive LLC, courtesy of Pace/MacGill Gallery, New York and Fraenkel Gallery,
San Francisco
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Radio City Music Hall in 1977 The Avon Theatre near Times Square, famous for its X-
rated films, in a photo from January 1972
A porn shop with cinema and live shows in the Times
Square area in October 1975
A New York gang called Reapers clean up a lot in the Bronx
in 1972
The band Kiss struts down a New York City street in 1976
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A jazz band plays on the back of a truck as it drives
through the streets of Harlem in the summer of 1970
A porn shop with films and live
shows near Times Square in 1975
A large Christmas peace message from John Lennon and
Yoko Ono on a billboard in Times Square in 1971
A subway car at the 145th Street station in 1973
A night view of Broadway Avenue and Times Square in
1970 A view of Broadway in 1972
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The Brooklyn Bridge and Manhattan skyline lit up at dusk in
1973
The band New York Dolls in 1978
Jackie Curtis, an actress, writer and singer who
appeared in several Andy Warhol films, in Times
Square in 1975
People wait in line outside Studio
54 in 1978
A store clerk arranges Elvis Presley
records at a music store in 1977
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Broadway in the rain in November 1979 Midtown Manhattan, looking north towards Times Square, in August
1979
A 1973 Cadillac Eldorado "pimpmobile" parked on a
street in Harlem in 1975
Abandoned burnt-out tenement blocks in the South
Bronx in 1977
Residents of the South Bronx play cards in an
abandoned luncheonette in 1977
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Musician Lenny Kaye, of the Patti Smith Group, outside CBGB on the Bowery in
May 1977 Firefighters extinguish a trash fire on Crosby Street in SoHo in July
1979
The Ramones perform at CBGB on February 4, 1977
New Yorkers roller skate to work on the first Earth Day, April 22,
1970
Abandoned burnt-out shops in the South Bronx in August 1977