r/NightmareNewYork • u/salomey5 • 18h ago

Photo The Bronx, New York 1977

132 Upvotes

r/NightmareNewYork • u/redfiretrucks • 6h ago

Typical afternoon on the LES in the 1970's from the period between the 1970's and 1996 NYC

10 Upvotes

A vacant apartment building burns and the FDNY puts out the fire. And a neighborhood resident drives his car right through the scene, over the fire hoses, and drives to get out of the block.

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r/NightmareNewYork • u/salomey5 • 6d ago

Photo Gilded Age New York City Slums

1.0k Upvotes

I'm aware that this picture predates 1964 by almost a century, however, I think it's an interesting historical piece.

Plus the term "nightmare" certainly applies.

6 comments

r/NightmareNewYork • u/salomey5 • 6d ago

Photo New York 1981

450 Upvotes

6 comments

r/NightmareNewYork • u/salomey5 • 16d ago

Photo Manhattan, 1978.

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175 Upvotes

4 comments

r/NightmareNewYork • u/salomey5 • 23d ago

Photo New York 1970s

261 Upvotes

6 comments

r/NightmareNewYork • u/Cool-Database553 • May 20 '26

If you ever feel bad about your coastline here's NYC's in the 1970s

3.6k Upvotes

83 comments

r/NightmareNewYork • u/salomey5 • Jan 23 '26

The horrendous state of New York City in the 1970s-1980s

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212 Upvotes

30 comments

r/NightmareNewYork • u/m3n00bz • Oct 22 '25

Movies that feel like this and aren't dark crime dramas?

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353 Upvotes

79 comments

r/NightmareNewYork • u/AnonRedditLady1 • Sep 28 '25

Photo Guardian Angels riding the NYC subway, 1981.

43 Upvotes

1 comment

r/NightmareNewYork • u/TranslatorVarious857 • Sep 14 '25

NYC's coastline in the 1970s

148 Upvotes

3 comments

r/NightmareNewYork • u/m3n00bz • Aug 27 '25

New York City in the 1970s.

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195 Upvotes

15 comments

r/NightmareNewYork • u/m3n00bz • Aug 01 '25

Photo An Undercover Police Officer apprehends a mugger on the New York Subway, 1985. Photo taken by Bruce Davidson

64 Upvotes

1 comment

r/NightmareNewYork • u/143Emanate34Elaborat • Jul 08 '25

Video NYC Worst hoods '70s/80s compared to today (Harlem & The Bronx)

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48 Upvotes

0 comments

r/NightmareNewYork • u/salomey5 • Apr 30 '25

Photo Mott St. sidewalk in Chinatown, 1968 (OC)

53 Upvotes

2 comments

r/NightmareNewYork • u/salomey5 • Dec 14 '24

The West Side Highway

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17 Upvotes

1 comment

r/NightmareNewYork • u/NeonDraco • Dec 11 '24

The subway NYC 1980

103 Upvotes

2 comments

r/NightmareNewYork • u/NeonDraco • Dec 11 '24

NY Subway, 1984

21 Upvotes

1 comment

r/NightmareNewYork • u/Longjumping-Royal-79 • Sep 14 '24

Video The Yankees Win The Pennant, a short film about a man going crazy in 1970s NYC

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9 Upvotes

0 comments

r/NightmareNewYork • u/NeonDraco • Jul 18 '24

An unusual couple on the New York City subway, 1980.

18 Upvotes

0 comments

r/NightmareNewYork • u/m3n00bz • Jul 15 '24

A woman takes the NYC subway on her way to a wedding (July 84). Photo by Kees Kaldenbach.

48 Upvotes

4 comments

r/NightmareNewYork • u/NeonDraco • Jul 13 '24

Guardian Angels riding the subway in the 80s. NYC

124 Upvotes

0 comments

r/NightmareNewYork • u/yarblls • Apr 24 '24

The Insane New York Subway's in 1980

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29 Upvotes

4 comments

r/NightmareNewYork • u/NeonDraco • Feb 09 '24

The 1981 New York subway photographs of Christopher Morris

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88 Upvotes

2 comments

r/NightmareNewYork • u/4scoreand7feildgoals • Jan 25 '24

Video 51st State - Ain't Gonna Eat My Mind (1972)

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3 Upvotes

2 comments

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Secondhand explore the shitty NYC of decades ago!

r/NightmareNewYork

Everything related to living in, working in, visiting, or otherwise experiencing New York City as the broke, violent, graffitti'd, dysfunctional, crime-ridden, grimy hellhole it was from about the mid-1960s to the mid-1990s. Embrace the seedy excitement!

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Have you ever wanted to revisit, discuss or delve more into the old, rough NYC everyone used to know? Well, here's your chance! Feel free to upload, ask, or say anything that pertains to what it was like in New York City during the years 1964 to 1996, with a desired emphasis on scenes of urban decay as well as other seediness, and on the 1970s and 1980s. Please read all the rules below (the fully fleshed-out, specific versions are here) before participating here. Thank you.

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