“How do you feel about being a member of the information age?” — NYC street interviews from 1970s

In the 1970s, filmmaker David Hoffman took to the streets of Manhattan to interview New Yorkers on “the coming of the information age.” It’s a portal back to an amazingly specific moment in New York history — a moment when the city was in crisis.

“As I look at it, it shows me that in a way, nothing has changed, and in a way, so much has changed,” Hoffman says. “Notice that most people had never been filmed before. With the coming of cell phone video, very few can say that today.”

Check the video out below: