doree: Cannot stop looking at this collection of photos from the NYC subway from the ’80s. This one is by Bruce Davidson. I love how it’s perfectly Bright Lights, Big City. [via] Yeesh. My commute would have been so much worse 25 years ago. Honestly, compared to NJ Transit, the NYC Subway is a godsend.
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doree:

Cannot stop looking at this collection of photos from the NYC subway from the ’80s. This one is by Bruce Davidson. I love how it’s perfectly Bright Lights, Big City.

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Yeesh. My commute would have been so much worse 25 years ago. Honestly, compared to NJ Transit, the NYC Subway is a godsend.

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  1. applejuiceliving reblogged this from doree and added:
    80’s….it immediately brings me back to my childhood….holding my mother’s hand as we walked to a fabric store on the LES,...
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  5. lifeandtimes reblogged this from doree and added:
    horrifying, and makes NYC today seem quaint
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  8. noraleah reblogged this from peterfeld and added:
    A handful of Davidson’s photos hang in Painkiller, including this one. I, too, couldn’t stop staring at them, imagining...
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  12. peterfeld reblogged this from buzzfeed and added:
    So glad Giuliani made the city into a clean, safe theme park for a generation that doesn’t know awesome when they see...
  13. leahj reblogged this from buzzfeed and added:
    Such a great set of photographs.
  14. joshmorrissey reblogged this from doree and added:
    all morning. So good. Btw...second set John F. Conn, sells prints of his photos in Union...
  15. markcoatney reblogged this from doree and added:
    was my favorite one; there’s a whole novel (and a better...Lights) in this picture.