Joan Baez and Jimi Hendrix at a Biafra relief benefit at Steve Paul’s Scene, 1968.

Joanne Woodward and Paul Newman at a Tonys after-party at Sardi’s, 1968.

Gloria Vanderbilt and Wyatt Cooper at a Truman Capote party, 1968.

Giorgio di Sant’Angelo and Veruschka, 1969.

Nico and Andy Warhol in his studio, 1968.

Peter Wolf and Faye Dunaway at the Towering Inferno premiere, 1974.

Cher and Bill Butler at a Casablanca Records party at Empire rink, 1979.

Arnold Schwarzenegger, Barry Manilow, and Eartha Kitt, 1978.

Joey Ramone at the Mudd Club.

Yves Saint Laurent with Nan Kempner at a launch for Opium perfume, 1978.

Elton John with Ann-Margret at the premiere party for the film Tommy, held in a subway station, 1975.

Diane Von Furstenberg and friends celebrating Egon Von Furstenberg’s book, The Power Look, 1978.

Patti Smith and Robert Mapplethorpe at the 82 Club.

Jimmie “J.J.” Walker and Bill Cosby, 1975.

Sylvester Stallone at Xenon.

Margaret Trudeau dancing with a busboy at Studio 54.

Meryl Streep at Woody Allen’s New Year’s party, 1979.

Halston, Bianca Jagger, Jack Haley Jr., Liza Minnelli, and Michael Jackson at Studio 54, 1978.

John F. Kennedy Jr. at a Calvin Klein party for Elton John, 1980.

Richard Johnson, 1986.

Fran Lebowitz and Betsey Johnson at Diane Brill’s birthday party, 1986.

Grace Jones at a dinner party in her honor, 1986.

Rob Lowe and Liz Smith at the Palladium, 1985.

D.J. Keoki and Michael Alig at the World, 1988.

Courtney Love and Jim Jarmusch, 1986.

Debbie Harry, 1981.

Drew Barrymore talking with Moon Zappa, 1985.

Robert De Niro and Al Pacino, 1982.

Christian Lacroix and Carolyne Roehm, 1988.

Matthew Broderick, 1987.

Jean-Michel Basquiat, Tina Chow, and Andy Warhol at a dinner for Ozzy Osbourne at Mr. Chow, 1986.

Diana Vreeland and Pierre Cardin, 1982.

Roy Lichtenstein and Robert Rauschenberg at the Limelight, 1983.

Marc Jacobs and Elizabeth Saltzman, disguised as Linda Evangelista, 1991.

Brooke Astor at her 90th-birthday party, 1992.

Leonardo DiCaprio.

C.Z. Guest, Iggy Pop, and Carolyn Murphy, 1995.

Robin Givens and Spike Lee at the premiere for A Rage in Harlem, 1991.

David Bowie, Damien Hirst, and Julian Schnabel at a Hirst opening, 1996.

Marpessa, Prince Dimitri of Yugoslavia, Carla Bruni, and Cindy Crawford at a Versace gala, 1992.

Anna Wintour, Tom Ford, Nicole Kidman, and Adrien Brody at the Met’s Costume Institute gala, 2003.

Chloë Sevigny, 2006.

John Legend, Kanye West, Mariah Carey, and Jay-Z at Kanye West’s 30th-birthday party, 2007.

Leigh Lezark, 2006.

Samantha Ronson and Lindsay Lohan, 2008.

40th-Anniversary Features

Boom-Bust-Boom Town

In 1968, many New Yorkers were panicked about the city’s future too. Needlessly, as it turned out.

Chatting With Woody

New York’s hometown auteur on whether a lifetime of psychoanalysis has paid off, and why kids from Yale no longer like good movies.

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• Madison Avenue’s Most Memorable Ads
• How Brooklyn Has (and Hasn’t) Changed
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