To celebrate the first day of summer, we’re sharing a handful of long-forgotten photos taken in parks across NYC in the summer of 1978https://nyti.ms/2MeyJGB
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The infamous wretched NYC of the 1970s and 1980s can be glimpsed in these photos. But that version has never been truth enough. https://nyti.ms/2IbBjKU pic.twitter.com/qp3p7bGNkZ
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In these photos, no one holds a smartphone. Life, uncurated. https://nyti.ms/2IbBjKU pic.twitter.com/JO1FYCCcib
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That summer, New Yorkers napped on rock slabs at beaches and tottered along rickety piers https://nyti.ms/2IbBjKU pic.twitter.com/SITslhIhZS
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They roasted entire pigs over pits of coals https://nyti.ms/2IbBjKU pic.twitter.com/FE8bCsfi2I
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These shots speak a commanding, unwritten narrative of escape and discovery. See more of the photos: https://nyti.ms/2IbBjKU pic.twitter.com/wgQDMQT91S
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Still is like any place run. By Democrats.
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