TIME have presented some rare images taken by photojournalist Christopher Morris back in the 1980s.
“Morris’ work provides a window on a long-gone New York, a metropolis that once pulsed with a very different energy – a frenetic, dangerous tone – than one feels in most of the city’s neighborhoods today. But even back then, as Morris’ pictures attest, Gotham remained an always fascinating and, at times, disarmingly beautiful place.”
Read more over at TIME via HUH Magazine