The Rolling Stones perform on a flatbed truck in Greenwich Village to promote their upcoming tour, NYC, From SoHo Blues - A Personal Photographic Diary of New York City in the 1970s by SoHo Weekly News chief photographer Allan Tannenbaum © Allan Tannenbaum

The Cure gets caught on Columbus Ave. From SoHo Blues - A Personal Photographic Diary of New York City in the 1970s by SoHo Weekly News chief photographer Allan Tannenbaum © Allan Tannenbaum

Members of the Chingalings Motorcycle Club on their bikes outside their rent-free city-owned clubhouse in the South Bronx © Allan Tannenbaum

Time Square Hooker waiting on the street © Allan Tannenbaum

Artist in Crisis mural at Broome and Thompson Streets viewed by Holland Tunnel traffic © Allan Tannenbaum

Lenny Kaye of the Patti Smith Group takes a break outside CBGB on the Bowery © Allan Tannenbaum

The scene outside Max's Kansas City, the hip hang-out on Park Ave. South between E. 17th & E. 18th Streets © Allan Tannenbaum

Surrealist Painter Salvador Dali balances his cane on his head at the St. Regis hotel, From SoHo Blues - A Personal Photographic Diary of New York City in the 1970s by SoHo Weekly News chief photographer Allan Tannenbaum © Allan Tannenbaum

Musicians United for Safe Energy present an Anti-Nuclear Power rally and concert on the Battery Park City landfill opposite the World Trade Center twin towers. The Vista Hotel was still under construction. NYC 9/23/1979, SN 2748-8A SWN © Allan Tannenbaum

French director François Truffaut and actress Catherine Deneuve at the French Cultural Center © Allan Tannenbaum