When sex, 麻薬s and 激しく揺する 'n' roll still 支配するd: Photographer 明らかにするs rare snapshots of the East Village in its 悪名高い 1980s heyday

  • New York photographer Tony Mangia 明らかにするd photographs showing life in the East Village during 早期に 1980s
  • Mangia had thought the old photographs had been destroyed in an attic 解雇する／砲火／射撃 at his mother's house
  • However, he （機の）カム across the 黒人／ボイコット and white prints while he was きれいにする out his apartment last year
  • He said photographs 代表する the East Village as he remembered it - an area at the time '紅潮／摘発する with ヘロイン, 罪，犯罪 and 都市の decay'

By Myriah Towner For Dailymail.com

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A New York photographer has 明らかにするd rare photographs of the East Village 近隣 during its 悪名高い 1980s heyday.

Tony Mangia, who had thought the photographs had been destroyed in an attic 解雇する／砲火／射撃 at his mother's house years ago, （機の）カム across the old 黒人／ボイコット and white prints while he was きれいにする out his apartment last year.

He said old memories （機の）カム 急ぐing 支援する as he thumbed through the photographs, which '代表する the East Village I remember' during the 早期に 1980s.

Tony Mangia, a New York photographer, has unearthed rare photographs of the East Village neighborhood during its infamous 1980s heyday
He thought the photographs had been destroyed in an attic fire at his mother's house years ago

Tony Mangia, a New York photographer, has 明らかにするd rare photographs of the East Village 近隣 during the 1980s. He thought the photographs had been destroyed in an attic 解雇する／砲火／射撃 at his mother's house years ago

Mangia came across?the old prints in a box while he was cleaning out his apartment last year which shows life in the East Village during the early 1980s

Mangia （機の）カム across?the old prints in a box while he was きれいにする out his apartment last year which shows life in the East Village during the 早期に 1980s

During that time, Mangia was co-publisher of the newspaper The Other Paper which had an office located on East Fifth Street?in an area that was at the time, 'flush with crime, heroin and urban decay'

During that time, Mangia was co-publisher of the newspaper The Other Paper which had an office 位置を示すd on East Fifth Street?in an area that was at the time, '紅潮／摘発する with 罪，犯罪, ヘロイン and 都市の decay'

During a snowy day in the 1980s, Mangia's photograph captures an image of two emergency responders providing aid to a man

During a 雪の降る，雪の多い day in the 1980s, Mangia's photograph 逮捕（する）s an image of two 緊急 responders 供給するing 援助（する） to a man

During that time, Mangia was a co-publisher of The Other Paper, a paper he 言及するs to as 'a 発言する／表明する of a community', すなわち the Lower East 味方する and Alphabet City, which lasted between 1980 and 1981.

The area was at the time, '紅潮／摘発する with 罪，犯罪, ヘロイン and 都市の decay' and was 居住させるd by 無断占拠者s, artists, 'the leftover sixties love children' and 後継の punk rockers.

It was also 大部分は 居住させるd by Puerto Rican families who moved into the area during the sixties, によれば Mangia.

?A group of men are pictured as they gather on the streets of the East Village during its infamous 1980s heyday

?A group of men are pictured as they gather on the streets of the East Village during its 悪名高い 1980s heyday

The area at the time was populated by squatters, artists, 'the leftover sixties love children' and incoming punk rockers, according to Mangia
Two men are pictured during a music performance in the 1980s in New York's East Village

The area at the time was 居住させるd by 無断占拠者s, artists, 'the leftover sixties love children' and 後継の punk rockers, によれば Mangia

Two young children are pictured as they play on top of a graffiti-covered wall, standing over two benches and a littered ground

Two young children are pictured as they play on 最高の，を越す of a graffiti-covered 塀で囲む, standing over two （法廷の）裁判s and a littered ground

Mangia said through the Other Paper he and his colleagues were proud to champion?local causes such as crime prevention, civic groups, politics and artistic endeavors

Mangia said through the Other Paper he and his 同僚s were p roud to 支持する／優勝者?地元の 原因（となる）s such as 罪，犯罪 予防, 市民の groups, politics and artistic 努力するs

He said most of the photographs were taken on the 麻薬-infested streets of the communities they covered and inside punk and new-wave 激しく揺する clubs that he spent time in. He said at the time, the city was more photographically 利益／興味ing than it is today.?

Looking at the prints, they brought memories of 麻薬 （警察の）手入れ，急襲s and overdoses, social change without social マスコミ and abandoned tenements flooding 支援する to Mangia.

The photographs also brought 支援する memories of the many 直面するs he would see as he walked on the sidewalks of the Lower East 味方する or of the up-and-coming new waver and 地元の legend that might have been spotted inside of nightclubs such as Max's Kansas City, Mudd Club and Danceteria.

Looking at the prints, they brought memories of drug raids and overdoses, social change without social media and abandoned tenements flooding back to Mangia
A young boy is pictured as he swings a baseball bat

The photographs brought 支援する memories of the many 直面するs he would see as he walked on the sidewalks of the Lower East 味方する

The prints also brought back memories of drug raids and overdoses, social change without social media and abandoned tenements flooding back to Mangia

The prints also brought 支援する memories of 麻薬 （警察の）手入れ，急襲s and overdoses, social change without social マスコミ and abandoned tenements flooding 支援する to Mangia

He also remembered?the up-and-coming new waver and local legend that might have been spotted inside of nightclubs such as Max's Kansas City, Mudd Club and Danceteria

He also remembered?the up-and-coming new waver and 地元の legend that might have been spotted inside of nightclubs such as Max's Kansas City, Mudd Club and Danceteria

Eventually, though, came in gentrification and the East Village Mangia once knew began disappearing. An abandoned lot is pictured next to an apartment building

結局, though, （機の）カム in gentrification and the East Village Mangia once knew began disappearing. An abandoned lot is pictured next to an apartment building

Now, the East Village he once knew is 'long gone' but through his photographs, he is happy to preserve some of the area's past
A young man looks on as his companion climbs a fire escape above a police car

Now, the East Village he once knew is 'long gone' but through his photographs, he said he is happy to 保存する some of the area's past

Mangia said the communities that the Other Paper covered were '事実上' ignored by the other major New York city newspapers.

He and his co-publishers, John Lesch, Gael Gibney, were proud to 支持する／優勝者 地元の 原因（となる）s such as 罪，犯罪 予防, 市民の groups, politics and artistic 努力するs.

結局, though, （機の）カム in gentrification and the East Village he once knew disappeared, which began with the 開始 of the first major chain 蓄える／店, Gap, on St. 示す's Place.

Mangia said the area was transformed with the 猛攻撃 of more franchises and real-広い地所 仲買人s as rent sky-ロケット／急騰するd and the area 'seemed to lose its 多様制, grit and personality'.

Now, the East Village he once knew is 'long gone' but through his photographs, he said he is happy to 保存する some of the area's past.