--- title: The Get Down: See Photos of the Bronx in the 1970s description: The new Netflix series is set in New York City in 1977, a notoriously rough year that saw economic disaster and a major blackout canonical: https://time.com/4431300/see-the-bronx-in-the-days-of-the-get-down/ author: Lily Rothman article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2016-08-12T16:00:41.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-05-11T04:50:26.135Z article:section: History og:title: The Get Down: See Photos of the Bronx in the 1970s og:description: The new Netflix series is set in New York City in 1977 og:url: https://time.com/4431300/see-the-bronx-in-the-days-of-the-get-down/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt3b849c08943da0fb/6988a06e5f570f399fb2203b/160729-south-bronx-1970s-07.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 2560 og:image:height: 1440 og:image:alt: South Bronx 1970s og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: The Get Down: See Photos of the Bronx in the 1970s twitter:description: The new Netflix series is set in New York City in 1977 twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt3b849c08943da0fb/6988a06e5f570f399fb2203b/160729-south-bronx-1970s-07.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # See the Bronx in the Days of _The Get Down_ > Sponsored content. 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They are at time.com/newsletters and are separate from a paid subscription. by [Lily Rothman](https://time.com/author/lily-rothman/) and [Liz Ronk](https://time.com/author/liz-ronk/) Aug 12, 2016 4:00 PM UTC  South Bronx teenagers in front of abandoned tenement burnt-out buildings, South Bronx, New York, August 1977. South Bronx teenagers in front of abandoned tenement burnt-out buildings, South Bronx, New York, August 1977. Alain Le Garsmeur—Getty Images by [Lily Rothman](https://time.com/author/lily-rothman/) and [Liz Ronk](https://time.com/author/liz-ronk/) Aug 12, 2016 4:00 PM UTC New York City in 1977 was [notoriously](http://time.com/4068598/city-on-fire-history-squatting/) tough. With the Son of Sam murders, economic [disaster](http://www.nydailynews.com/new-york/president-ford-announces-won-bailout-nyc-1975-article-1.2405985) and a July blackout that was the [occasion](http://time.com/3949986/1977-blackout-new-york-history/) for widespread looting and crime, the city was in bad shape. And nowhere exemplified that situation like the South Bronx did. Mary Cronin, a TIME Correspondent sent to the South Bronx in the wake of the blackout, [noted](http://time.com/vault/issue/1977-08-01/page/18/) that, with some 2,000 stores affected by crime during that episode, “store owners gaze angrily at the rubble, the empty shelves and the twisted grilles hanging from their windows.” As the magazine [reported](http://time.com/vault/issue/1977-11-21/page/61/) late that year, President Jimmy Carter called his visit to inspect the region “a very sobering trip” and noted that he toured “several blocks of burned-out buildings, rubble-choked vacant lots and garbage-strewn streets in the South Bronx of New York City” before ordering an aide to “devise a salvage plan for the 3-sq.-mi. area, where about 400,000 people now live (compared with about 530,000 in 1970).” [_Get your history fix in one place: sign up for the weekly TIME History newsletter_](http://time.com/newsletter) But, as these images of the Bronx in the 1970s show, a place of great need was still very much alive. One facet of that life—music—is the subject of the new Netflix series [_The Get Down_](http://time.com/4169918/netflix-the-get-down-baz-luhrmann/). The musical [series](http://time.com/4422190/the-get-down-trailer-netflix/) finds its characters in the South Bronx in 1977, in the early days of hip-hop. And there’s no doubt that, in that “very sobering” time, something new was being born. “Originating in the South Bronx in the mid-’70s, rap music is a cultural anthropologist’s mother lode,” TIME would [note](http://time.com/vault/issue/1983-03-21/page/90/) in 1983\. “It combines musical influences as disparate as disco, George Clinton funk, conventional R & B and Ennio Morricone scores for Italian westerns, cross-pollinates them with the Jamaican disc jockey’s art of ‘toasting’ (talking over the instrumental breaks in records) and a street kid’s fondness for boasting, synthesizes the results with some distinctly contemporary audio technology and winds up with a sound that invites deejays at local dance palaces to ‘scratch’ the surface.”  Bronx Day Parade, May 1971. Tom Cunningham/NY Daily News Archive—Getty Images  Group portrait of members of Bronx street gang the Dragons, 1975. Robert R. McElroy—Getty Images  View of the number 6 local subway train as it passes through the South Bronx neighborhood, New York, New York, 1975. Allan Tannenbaum—Getty Images  Two members of Bronx street gang the Outlaw Makers as they sit on a couch in their clubhouse, 1975. Robert R. McElroy—Getty Images  Child sits in doorway of rundown building at 135th St and Willis Ave. in the South Bronx, 1976. Dan Farrell/NY Daily News Archive—Getty Images  South Bronx residents playing cards in abandoned luncheonette, 1977. Alain Le Garsmeur—Getty Images  South Bronx teenagers in front of abandoned tenement burnt-out buildings, South Bronx, New York, August 1977. Alain Le Garsmeur—Getty Images  Cops contain suspected looters at Grand Concourse and Fordham Road in the Bronx during the blackout of July 1977. New York Daily News Archive—Getty Images  People walking by abandoned burnt-out shops in the South Bronx,1977. Alain Le Garsmeur—Getty Images  A woman walks among abandoned buildings in the South Bronx, New York, March 1979. 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