Doin' Time in Times Square
Description
Despite the success of Charlie Ahearn's seminal hip-hop film Wild Style in 1991, he created a video journal through the window of his Times Square apartment. He managed to capture Times Square in all of its pre-Giuliani glory—a period of unbridled tension when Times Square was full of low-brow adult sideshows and arcades, poverty, hookers, and yes, even high-brow theater a block away.
Runtime
39 min 8 sec
Subjects
Geography
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