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WEEK TWENTY-FOUR
NEW YORK CITY, 1983

The Late 1970s And 80s Signaled The Beginnings Of Street Art As We Know It, With Subways Like This One In 1986 Covered In Tags By Illicit Painters.

The Twin Towers And Brooklyn Bridge In 1982

During The '80s, It Was Possible To Captured Stunning Images Of New York Streets And An East Village Made Of "Abandoned Tenements, Drug Raids And Overdoses, The Homeless On The Bowery, Social Change Without Social Media."

The Meatpacking District Was A Dangerous Area Back In The 1980s. In The 1980s, As The Industrial Activities In The Area Continued Their Downturn, It Became Known As A Center For Drug Dealing And Prostitution.

CBGB Was A Famed Venue Of Punk Rock And New Wave Bands. From The Early 1980s Onward, CBGB Was Known For Hardcore Punk. Some Of The Bands Performed At CBGB: The Ramones, Television, Patti Smith Group, Blondie, Talking Heads, And B-52s.

Before It Became A Tourist Mecca, Times Square Was An Eclectic Mix With Its Legendary Grand (Though Slightly Tarnished) Theaters, Ever-Shifting Morals Fueling An Increasingly Bolder Adult Entertainment Industry, And The "Anything Goes" Decade Itself.

Times Square, A Modern-Day Tourist Mecca, Was Full Of Peep Shows And Adult Video Stores, Effectively Becoming The Epicenter Of The Sex Industry By 1981.

Although It Is Considered A Crime, Subway Riders Used To Find Their Own Way To Jumping Over The Turnstile At The Subway Stations.

The 1980s In New York City Were Turbulent And Crime-Ridden . Gotham Earned A Nasty Reputation For Violence, Filth And Fear During That Decade.

New York City Experienced A Shocking Spike In Homicides In The Early 1980s, With A Peak Of 1,814 In The First Year Of The Decade.

Girls Were On Fire, Indeed. The FDNY Was Checking It Out In 1985 In Times Square

Women Stalk Manhattan's Fifth Avenue Clad In Expensive Fur Coats In 1987. (Photo: Richard Sandler)

Life On The Streets: A Homeless Woman Stands Bear Overflowing Trash On Fifth Ave In 1980. (Photo: Richard Sandler)

One last image of Times Square, also known as Needle Park. In addition to a drug epidemic, this is also the start of the AIDS crisis. Read more about that here.

CODING

You know the drill. At the end of seven days, at precisely 1:32 AM, the campus once more resets. Everyone trapped in the experiment falls unconscious (if not sleeping already) only to wake up sometime afterward in their assigned bed, in their assigned room, in their assigned dorm. Everyone arrives in their original, expected condition, wearing the precise clothing they arrived in.

Unfortunately, the chaos of last week isn’t quite so neatly resolved. The ghosts did not reset to their locked rooms. There are those who were captured or dispatched, but from this point forward the campus is a little more haunted than it was before.

And where has the campus landed this week? New York City. Specifically, the campus is tucked away unnoticed in the middle of Central Park. Which would be nice were it not for the fact that this isn’t today’s Central Park. Nope. The year is 1983.

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