This City Never Sleeps - The Best of New York's Streets at the End of the 20th Century (15 photos)

Photographer and photo editor Carrie Boretz always felt New York City was overflowing with people who knew nothing but kissing, sleeping, and dreaming of beauty. Her book, "Street," chronicles her adventures in the metropolis from 1975 to 1998, as she breathlessly explored a city teeming with conflict, anxiety, and yet also kindness.

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While collaborating with The New York Times, the photographer realized her predisposition to revisit the places to which she had an emotional attachment. It must be said that Carrie never wanted to cross moral and ethical boundaries on her journey to the epicenter of ordinary city life. On the contrary, she always sought to explore the city and its inhabitants, becoming one of them, embracing the sensitivity and vulnerability characteristic of New Yorkers.



Her goal was never to report on any tabloid sensations; her main theme was the small contradictions and clashes with circumstances that we often overlook.

During Boretz's most prolific years, New York was a rather harsh and unforgiving city, but the photographs included in "Street" reveal those fragile, delicate connections between people that kept the idea of ​​humanity alive. Some prefer to characterize those times as "the years when nothing was sacred," but Carrie's photographs reveal a purity of heart that seems like some incomprehensible, eternal treasure, hidden somewhere nearby, suspended in the air of parks, buildings, and intersections that never sleep.



School playground, Harlem, 1994.



Dinner party for members of the Conservation Committee.



New York City subway, 1984.



14-year-old Ella plays Pac-Man, her toddler nearby. Brooklyn, 1983.



Children waiting for the bus, 1983.



George Steinbrenner hides from everyone.



Police officers, Central Park, 1982.



A couple cooing on the subway, 1980.



Rizzoli Bookstore 1975.



Orchard Street, 1975.



A couple on the subway, 1980.



People watch the fire.

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Homeless people sleep on a discarded sofa, 1981.