“It’s hard to believe this is where Upper East Side, with all its beautiful old buildings, once stood... all torn down and rebuilt for this... CROMEX CITY.

Does anyone even remember what the old New York looked like?
This is right before the heavy metal bar Rainbow finally bit the dust - I remember it was torn down soon after I took this photo. Even Iron Maiden played their Killers Tour here in 1981.

I must have been there around January 1984... I wasn’t even supposed to be there. Acacia street used to be a tough place back then.“

Winston S., 1990