City on fire

New York in the Seventies, a city on the cusp of reinventing itself, fostering intense creativity - the downtown art and punk rock scenes - set against a backdrop of urban decay and sky-high crime rates. This odd mixture of chaos and possibility could be epitomised in the legendary five-borough blackout of 13 July 1977 during the intense summer heat, which heralded a night of lawlessness and civil unrest.