Every New Yorker is secretly (and in some cases, very openly) in love with some part of the city’s past. Pick your decade—it was better then. Well, pine no more: With our nostalgia guide, you can retrieve the Pop-hued sixties, the rocking seventies, the joyfully garish eighties, and the not-so-long-ago nineties. And if you need a role model, we’ve got four New Yorkers who love their era enough to live it every day.

The Sixties: Get Into Mod World

The Seventies: Adopt an Attitude of Anomie

The Eighties: Banish Thoughts of Moderation

The Nineties: Throw Everything Away