In his 2015 New York Times article, “Why Can’t We Stop Talking about New York in the Late 1970s?”, Edmund White questions why modern creatives have a romanticized view of 1970’s New York City. Perhaps, it’s because the cultural world was smaller, rent was cheaper, Jasper Johns still painted in his East Houston street studio, Susan Sontag published Illness as Metaphor and people happily stood in line for hours for the chance to mingle with the famous at Studio 54. The city was