I was looking at population stats for Manhattan. It actually reached its peak in 1900 at over 3 million, and then went into a long decline up until 1980 when it hit half of that.

So, for the people who lived there in the 1960s and 1970s, it was an Empty City...relative to the amount of left over stuff from its heyday.

there are some walks in the cascades that can give a big city walk a run for its money.

I lived there a couple years later, and yes, Sundays (and August) you could have the city pretty much to yourself (except Central Park, and other gathering spots.)

I thought Manhattan was very livable then, and affordable, even if you had little money!

Our first apartment just off 5th ave and 94th st, was $200 a month, with a bathtub in the kitchen.

Notice all the women in dresses!

The amount of litter in Central Park is stunning. "Keep America Beautiful," "Every Litter Bit Hurts," Iron Eyes Cody, Lady Bird Johnson's highway-beautification project [seems oxymoronic to us now], etc. all had positive and lasting effects.

It would be a wonderful comparrison for somebody to try and reproduce the walk shot for shot today.

@5, indeed...

The snippet consists, Frampton wrote, of “a single dolly shot from the middle of the Brooklyn Bridge to the lake in Central Park."

No snapshots here. (And even if it were strung-together snapshots, it would be thousands of them.)

yeah... a lot more than 160 frames there... ;)

also -- some image stabilization would be interesting to see, but take lots of the surreal charm away.