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Fantastic films that show what life was like in 1970s New York

New York City has been front and center in hundreds of movies. That has been true since the early days of film, and it is still valid. However, the idea of “1970s New York” is the decade of the city ...
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Viral sensation from Humans of New York, Stephanie "Tanqueray" Johnson dies at 81

Stephanie “Tanqueray” Johnson, famed for her Humans of New York story, will be honored with a public tribute in New York City ...
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He kicked off the 1970s klezmer revival. Now, he’s paying tribute to New York’s vast global music scene.

Walter Zev Feldman’s “From the Bronx to the Bosphorus: Klezmer and Other Displaced Musics of New York” is part ethnomusicological treatise and part memoir. Walter Zev Feldman, 76, is an authority on ...

Martin Scorsese's Daughter Admits She Only Saw Him 'Once or Twice a Year' in the 1970s in New Doc

Martin Scorsese's three daughters Domenica, Cathy and Francesca are featured in the new five-part documentary 'Mr. Scorsese,' ...
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TCS New York City Marathon celebrates protest of the 'Six Who Sat'

NEW YORK CITY (WABC) -- Close to half of the field lining up for the TCS NYC Marathon on Sunday are women, but it wasn't always that way. Just 50 years ago, six women changed the face of the NYC ...
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‘Peter Hujar's Day' Trailer: Ira Sachs Offers an Intimate Look at a 1970s New York Icon

One of our favorite movies of Sundance 2025 was a quiet and introspective two-hander from director Ira Sachs that plays more like a documentary than a biopic and even clocks in at a brisk 75 minutes.
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HSF Kramer's Richard Farley Sees Some Parallels Between the New York Fiscal Crisis of the 1970s and Now. And He Wrote a Book About It.

Patrick Smith interviews HSF Kramer partner Richard Farley about his new book: "Drop Dead: How a Coterie of Corrupt Politicians, Bankers, Lawyers, Spinmeisters, and Mobsters Bankrupted New York, Got ...