Art Sunday 1981 Photos of Manhattan

Manhattan, photographs from 1981 by Jay Maisel
I came across a 1981 copy of National Geographic with an article featuring Manhattan. It was written by John Putman and illustrated with the photographs of Jay Maisel. There is something about these photographs that appeals to me, they are snapshots in time, a tiny glimpse of a time so recent that most of us remember but so different it’s hardly recognisable, almost like a different world. I apologise for the poor quality of these images, I didn’t want to tear up the book and so many of them have been scanned across two pages.
1 & 2 are in fact one image spread across three pages and it's called Fires of evening
3. a cigar smoking cabbie.
4. two wall streeters using reflectors to ensure tans.
5. 'The ins and the outs'; a labyrinth of neighbourhoods home for countless immigrants.
6. A pinball ride; beneath the streets.
7. Fifth Avenus fills to the walls for Pope John Paul !!'s visit to St Pattricks Cathedral
8. Street Art; last summers beer cans and popsicle sticks in heat softened asphalt.
9. Living cast offs; one such derelict awakens to a cold morning.
10. Wealth and Genuis; Solomon R Guggenheim Modern Art Museum designed by Frank lloyd Wright.
11. A building dies; the second death of a crumbeling street in a slum.
12. this is named ''Twin Monarchs''.....................................
13. A transit strike in 1980 clogged arterial avenues
14. Humbug, fakers sometimes collect for their own personal Christmas funds.
15. fantasy rides high; thanksgiving helium-filled cartoon characters float in macy's Parade.
16. Roller skates are in, so are radio headsets.
17. Morning light; a storefront in the bowery