CORY REYNOLDS | DATE 1/1/2026

Happy New Year!

Tonight we’re gonna party like it’s 1977. “Studio 54,” by Waring Abbott, is from D.A.P. Best of 2025 Staff Pick I Hear Music in the Streets, ace photo editor Guillermo M. Ferrando’s cannot-put-it-down street photography collection, published by La Fábrica. Spanning the highly photogenic years 1969 to 1989, and touching down in every borough of the city, from the Bronx to Staten Island, this is a love letter to NYC subcultures, to music and to that ineffable, decisive moment in all great street photography. Featuring everyone from Andy Warhol to Susan Meiselas, Nan Goldin and Jamel Shabazz, it’s a book for every New Yorker with an eye or an ear for the people. “New York in the 1970s and 1980s, mythology has it, was a crumbling, crime-ridden, garbage-swamped disaster zone, a hellhole where nobody in their right mind would want to live,” essayist Tim Lawrence writes. “This version of New York history has been repeated so many times it’s become common sense. Yet the photos included in this book depict a city that, far from enduring a catastrophic and humiliating fall, brimmed with humanity, energy, even joy.”