Jane Dickson Documented the Darker, Crime Ridden Times Square

Times Square in the 70s and 80s wasn't the squeaky clean version we know today--and we can thank folks like photographer Jane Dickson for documentary style images of what we knew of the era. Back then it was known for being New York's hub of seediness, drugs and crime.

Movie theatres were showing pornography and the streets were dominated by pimps and prostitutes - it was the mecca for indulgence and perversion. .

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