Boxes of Adam and Eve products on Reade Street looking east from West Broadway, New York, July 1974:
The Battery Park City landfill muck, New York, June 1974:
The hulking West Side Highway closed and abandoned, New York, June 1974:
Theatre Alley downtown off Ann Street, the narrowest street in Manhattan, filled with the litter and trash, March 1974:
World Trade Center (the dark building at Vesey and West St) from Battery Park City landfill, the West Side Highway crosses the whole view, April 1974:
23rd St and abandoned West Side Highway, a battered Ford Galaxy 500 drives by on cobblestones, April 1975:
Abandoned piers at Exchange Place in Jersey City and the World Trade Center across the Hudson in Lower Manhattan, April 1975:
Battery Park City was just a lot of mud with a great view to the industrial skyline of Jersey City and the Colgate Clock, right across West Street from the World Trade Center, April 1975:
View from Pier A’s fire escape, Battery Park City landfill, West Side Highway, World Trade Center and lots of colorful 1970s cars on a rainy, foggy day, 1975:
View from the 58th floor of the World Trade Center to the Battery Park City landfill, Pier A, end of the West Side Highway and New York Harbor on a foggy afternoon, March 1975:
Where the beautiful Battery Park City esplanade along the Hudson is now, June 1975:
Nassau Street looking toward Wall Street, Lower Manhattan, 1976:
The swampy fields of future Battery Park City, The World Trade Center hovers, New York, August 1976:
The abandoned West Side Highway looking out at the completed Battery Park City landfill, New York, April 1978:
‘Welcome to Marlboro Country’ sign under the West Side Highway by 150th Street, New York, September 1979: