I first spoke about this documentary in 2015, when Yukie posted a link to is on SoHo Memory Project that, at the time, was not embeddable. As it happens, someone posted it to YouTube only late last year, so here it is now.
Prompted by my further rumination on Crosby Street, here’s a look back at the strip in question in 1975, and a very different street it was then.
After this was filmed, of course, most of the the manufacturing interests left Crosby Street for good, and it became a haven for artists, only later to become wholly gentrified. For a while after that, Crosby — like the rest of SoHo — became renowned for bespoke retail boutiques and costly residential real estate.
These days, as with the rest of the city, the financial hardships brought on by the COVID-19 pandemic have taken their toll on the businesses of Crosby Street, but it’s still a compelling little street.
But, again, 46 years ago? The living wasn’t quite so easy.
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