But you did get to eat it, slowly, over the next week or two.Įven though this was the bad old New York of the 1970s, no one was too worried about Halloween candy contaminated with poison or razor blades. You went trick or treating in your building or on your block after school, and most likely, no adult went with you.Īfterward, your parents probably took some of your candy stash because they didn’t want you to go crazy and eat it all at once. You didn’t go to the Halloween parade in Greenwich Village because you had never heard of it. Or you dressed up as a more classic Halloween character, like Batman or Cinderella or a witch or a skeleton. Maybe you were the Bionic Woman, or a character from Planet of the Apes, or someone from Star Wars. Your mom or dad bought you your costume in a store, and it came with a mask held to your head by a rubber band. If you were a kid in the New York City of the 1970s, Halloween probably resembled this. Posted in Fashion and shopping, Midtown, Random signage, Sketchy hotels | 13 Comments » Tags: Greeley Square 1971, Herald Square then and now, Hotel Martinique 1970s, Koreatown in the 1970s NYC, New York City in 1971, New York in the 1970s, Olden Camera NYC, Photo District Manhattan Two years after this photo was taken, it would become a welfare hotel until 1988-a place so notorious and dangerous, former residents are still posting stories of survival there on an Ephemeral New York post from 2008. Notice the French Renaissance building to the left? It’s the Hotel Martinique (you can just make out the old red vertical sign on the facade), built in 1898 as an apartment house before being turned into a high-class hotel.īy 1971, the Hotel Martinique’s glory days were long over. (See the Olden Camera building in the center and Camera Barn to the left.) The area is no longer the upper reaches of what used to be known as the Photo District, vestiges of which can still be found on some Flatiron side streets. Gimbels, a major department store in New York before going bankrupt in 1987, would have been on the right. The taxi-choked traffic hasn’t changed much in the 48 years since a Dutch traveler named Hans Ketel snapped this photo while on a road trip across the United States.īut 32nd Street and Sixth Avenue, just south of Herald Square, is a very different place than it was in summer 1971-and not just because coconut oil (and billboards featuring women in bikinis selling it) have fallen out of favor.įor starters, 32nd Street is now Koreatown.
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