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When Times Square Sold Sex, This One Man Was Telling the Story

Josh Alan Friedman was one of the first writers covering Times Square during the late 1970s and 1980s.

Here’s a great little video interview with writer Josh Alan Friedman, who spent his twenties documenting the ins and outs of the fabled sleaze streets of Times Square from the latter 1970s-80s.   

Check out his 1986 classic book, Tales of Times Square.

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In Times of Trouble, We Need to Dance

In Times of Trouble, We Need to Dance

I was blissfully unaware that we were in troubling times. During the 1970s, New York City was a mess.  The graffiti-covered buses and subways were crowded and dangerous. Drugs were everywhere and don’t even think about going to Times Square. Another indignity was that the Big Apple was broke and on the verge of filing bankruptcy. It struggled with financial problems caused by the mass exodus of…

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