New York in the 1980s was a very different city. This book documents some of those dramatic differences -- from pre-Disney Times Square to graffiti-scarred subways to the vibrant but ungentrified sections of Manhattan to the ruins of the South Bronx to the pre-9/11 World Trade Center. The images are sometimes warmly nostalgic, sometimes deeply disturbing and sometimes simply a revelation of how much New York has changed in just a few decades. The New York of the 1980s was an edgier, riskier, dirtier, tenser, more dangerous and chaotic place. In spite of this -- or perhaps because of it -- 1980s New York was also distinctive and idiosyncratic in ways that it is not today.