The journalist’s The Gods of New York surveys the overlapping crises facing New York City in the last four years of the 1980s. Why did you focus on the final years of the 1980s? During the 2016 ...

The crime drama series Eric on Netflix, starring Benedict Cumberbatch, so accurately recreates 1980s New York City that even we seasoned film locations columnists here at Untapped New York wondered at ...

As far as pop culture prognostications go, John Carpenter’s “Escape From New York” (1981) fell short of its dystopian deadline. Although its positing of a war between America and an alliance of China ...

Commuting amidst the self-expression of the city's ink-enthusiast youngsters. New York City, 1980. (Credit: Barbara Alper via Getty Images) Herein lies the ink-stained testament of NYC native and ...

In the 1960s the Hudson River coastline below Chambers Street was the site of deserted and dilapidated docks. As the landfill that would be developed into a new neighborhood — Battery Park City, ...