I've been on a documentary binge lately and found some rather interesting shit. Here's NYC, as Revy knew it.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DDb8Nr_gVcw>80 Blocks From Tiffany's: Documentary of gang life in the South Bronx. From 1979http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gz_X4b4f0Lg>The Police Tapes: Basically the 1976 version of COPS. Filmed in the South Bronxhttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DSOj9UUjtCkNYC 77 The coolest year in hell: A retrospective NYC life in 1977