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Looking Back On The East Village & LES In The Early 1980s

21 photos

3rd Avenue and 13th Street

176 and 178 Ludlow, also know as where Pink Pony and Max Fish were

13th Street between Avenue A and B

Avenue B and 2nd

Avenue B between 9th and 10th

Avenue B and 10th Street

The Bowery. Specifically, where the New Museum stands today.

East 3rd Street between A and B

East 7th Street and 1st

East 12th Street and Avenue A

East 13th Street between Avenues A and B

East 13th Street between Avenues A and B

East 13th Street

East Houston and Chrystie

Houston and Broadway. Now an Adidas store.

Ludlow between Houston and Stanton

Ludlow and Rivington

Norfolk and East Houston

Rivington and Chrystie

St. Marks and Avenue A

Twin Towers from a rooftop on Ludlow