Old Times Square


But there's another "Old New York", and that's the New York of the 70s and 80s, the broken result of a government's total financial disaster and retreat from social services. And the epicenter of that New York was Times Square, a seedy pit of porno theaters and hustlers. Some look back fondly to this time, before Giuliani and the corporations pushed the scum aside to make room for their homogeneous vision of American culture. But if you look around carefully, you can see a period of history fading away. The abandoned marquee for a grindhouse theater still hangs above a tourist rip-off shop, obscured by skyscrapers and neon.
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