In the 1950s, attempts to stop the growth of disreputable businesses through zoning rules met with few results. The decline of Times Square can be traced to the negative impacts of the Great Depression and World War II. These vintage historical photographs, taken by photographers Andreas Feininger and Maggie Hop, give us a glimpse of Time Square at the peak of its social and urban degradation. Felony and crime rates were high, despite heightened police existence.Ī plethora of go-go bars, sex shops, peep show establishments, and adult theaters became symbols of the city’s very apparent decay. Shocking vintage pictures of Times Square at the height of its depravity in the 1970s and 1980sįrom the 1960s to the late 1980s, New York City’s iconic Times Square was a difficult place to be.
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