New York City was a decidedly different place in the 1980s. Drug crazed and battered by a high homicide rate, the island of Manhattan and the boroughs alike had yet to experience what is now know as gentrification. This primitive form of the city can now be viewed on an interactive map filled with over 800,000 images.
The map makes purveying different areas of the city possible, with snapshots of street corners and monumental or not so monumental buildings and establishments popping up. Showcasing old now shut down stores like V.I.M. which gave way to the designer jean craze and the famed club the Palladium, the 1980s Big Apple was a place of eccentricity.
Peep the vintage map here.
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