Meryl Meisler's dazzling portrait of New York hedonism in the 1980s! Four decades later, Meryl has begun sharing her illustrious archive of incredible images. See more:
, Meryl chronicles the hedonistic nightlife scene of the late 1970s and pairs it with images of Bushwick in the 1980s as it struggled to recover from the plague of"
, the city became a cauldron of creativity, unleashing hip hop, punk, and disco before the decade ended., a sentiment befitting the city's gritty glory. In the wake of the sexual revolution and the civil rights, women's and gay liberation movements, a new generation came of age revelling in the libertine pleasures. Clubs like Studio 54, Copacabana, GG's Barnum Room, and Les Mouches offered the ultimate escape: a night of freedom, fantasy, and decadence.
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