New York City in the ’70s was a place of reinvention and variety the likes of which could hardly be compared to other places. In the same evening, you could attend a poetry reading in a church on St.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. David Byrne on people romanticizing the 1970s in New York City: "There were jazz clubs and discos in lofts in Soho and other ...

Rose Lesniak, a feminist poet who dazzled and upended the male-dominated literary scene in New York during the 1970s before suddenly bolting to South Florida, where she worked as a ...