46 Amazing Color Photographs That Capture Street Scenes of New York City From 1978-1980

Retro-styled colour photo (my own, taken February 1988) of Lower Manhattan skyline, including the Twin Towers, layered on a serrated photo border with added vintage effects. Isolated on white with a soft shadow. Clipping path provided for the serrated edge outline. Photo scanned from 35 mm slide film (Kodachrome 64).

An old sedan car parked outside an Italian delicatessen in Little Italy, New York City, New York, USA.

Teenagers breakdancing next to a wall covered in grafitti, Brooklyn, New York, April 1984. (Photo by Michael Ochs Archives/Getty Images)

A teenager holding his ghetto blaster on 42nd street New York, USA, 1980. (Photo by Peter Anderson/PYMCA/Avalon/Getty Images)

Avenue of Americas, Nov 1985.

American hip hop duo Eric B. (right) and Rakim walking across 14th Street in New York City, circa 1989. (Photo by Michael Ochs Archives/Getty Images)

Man walking down the street with his ghetto blaster in his hands, New York, USA, 1980. (Photo by Peter Anderson/PYMCA/Avalon/Getty Images)

You wouldn’t recognize the place if you saw it now.

Vintage photo of a subway car driving across the Manhattan Bridge in New York City.

Vintage Times Square signage at night, New York City. (Photo by: Joan Slatkin/Education Images/Universal Images Group via Getty Images)

Watched by a group of spectators, a young man breakdances in Washington Square Park, New York, New York, early 1980s. (Photo by Leo Vals/Getty Images)

New York Harbor in July 1986 -Manhattan, World Trade Center, Statue of Liberty, yachts and other boats

A man breakdancing on cardboard on a street in New York City, circa 1984. (Photo by Michael Ochs Archives/Getty Images)

Commuters on a subway train in New York City, USA, circa 1980. (Photo by Barbara Alper/Getty Images)

Three teenage boys pose together in Times Square, New York City, USA, 1987. (Photo by Barbara Alper/Getty Images)

Marchers on a Gay Pride parade through Manhattan, New York City, carry a banner which reads ‘A.I.D.S.: We need research, not hysteria!’, June 26, 1983. (Photo by Barbara Alper/Getty Images)

New York, N.Y.: On June 6, 1989, AIDS activists protest during the dedication ceremony of Stonewall Place on Christopher Street in Greenwich Village, New York. (Photo by Erica Berger/Newsday RM via Getty Images)

Black and white film photo of young Caucasian man standing near old building

Advertising signs in Times Square, New York, circa 1980. (Photo by George Freston/Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

1980: Exterior nighttime view of the Pussycat, an X-rated movie theater on 42nd Street in Times Square, New York City. The marquee advertises porn actor Marilyn Chambers in director Stu Segall’s film, ‘Insatiable.’ (Photo by David Herman/Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

Lower Manhattan in a foggy haze.

Hip-hop personality Fab Five Freddy in front of a Lee Quinones grafitti mural in Lower Manhattan on Monroe Street in the Lower East Side. (Photo by Laura Levine/Corbis via Getty Images)