The Not Fade Away Gallery in the Flatiron District presented photos from Allan Tannenbaum's new book, "New York in the 70s" this week.

The book and show are capitalizing on the nostalgia of the city, when Andy Warhol was king of the night.

"The party was Andy Warhol reopens the Copacabana," explained Tannenbaum. "And he came with Devine, so it doesn't get much better than that."

The Princess of Punk was Blondie's Debbie Harry.

"She just came up with this charming pose and what was amazing was that her dress actually matched the background that I had chosen," the photographer said.

The hardest-working man in photography captured the hardest-working man in show business, James Brown, in mid-flight.

"One of the things that I loved about his act from the very first time that I saw him was that he was so physical and there was so much enthusiasm," Tannenbaum said.

Tannenbaum said actor Sigourney Weaver never looked better.

"I was just so impressed with how beautiful and how charming she was," he said.

He also was there to photograph John and Yoko under unique circumstances.

"I heard them talking about a video that they were going to shooting to promote 'Double Fantasy.' This was the shot that they were doing for this film," recalled Tannenbaum. "They would come into this simulation of the white room with their bedroom at The Dakota and take off their clothes and pretend to make love and I was just astonished when I was getting these pictures."

New York has changed so much since the '70s.

"This is the landfill from the World Trade Center. We used to call it TriBeCa Beach in the '70s, because you could just go out there and out to the river and it was pretty much open and uncontrolled," said Tannenbaum. "This was a concert and rally against nuclear power."

Among the many celebrities he photographed: Eddie Murphy, O.J. Simpson, Jack Nicholson, Susan Sarandon, Bruce Springsteen, The Rolling Stones, Frank Zappa, Stevie Wonder, David Bowie, Iggy Pop, Patty Smyth, and Mohammed Ali.

New York in the 70s was a dark and dismal place, but there was a little glow of light at the end of the decade on West 54th Street when the disco, Studio 54 opened. That brought glamour to the city and many think kicked New York's second gilded age, which unfortunately has just come to an end in a major crash.