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SEVEN DECADES

The ‘Bad Boy Curse’

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1970_0521_Hard hat riot REQUIEM FO THE PAYDAY PATRIOTS_joe flaherty

SEVEN DECADES

New York’s 1970 ‘Hard Hat Riot’ Was a Precursor of Today’s MAGA Demagoguery

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Who you gonna call? In this early-'70s file photo, a man approaches a bank of Ma Bell’s pay phones, near Bryant Park. If he'd had a Blue Box — or a Black or Red one — he could have checked the racing results down at Hialeah, the weather in Moscow, or whatever information tidbits he might want to track down, all free of long-distance charges.

SEVEN DECADES

Hackers Before There Were ‘Hackers’: Phone Phreaks in Midtown

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Bill Clinton on the hustings in New Hampshire in 1992.

SEVEN DECADES

Northern Exposures

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"If you'd asked for anything else, I'd have had to say no. But I've wanted to get that one out there for a long time."

SEVEN DECADES

American Gods

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Art objects Mat Tonti, Rebecca Amato, and Joel Shapiro (from left to right)

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Nude Awakening

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Isle of White

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NEW YORK CITY ARCHIVES

Does City Owe Squat?

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Prom Balloons

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