Selected photos from Allan Tannenbaum's New York in the 70s, published by Feierabend Verlag, 272 pages, which includes a reminiscence by Yoko Ono and a foreword by P.J. O'Rourke.

Left: Jack Nicholson, star of Stanley Kubrick's "The Shining", in his hotel room at the Carlisle Hotel, 1981.

Right: British actress and film star Helen Merrin smokes in her room at the Algonquin Hotel, 1979. She was a violinist in the London Philharmonic Orchestra and has played a wide range of Shakespearean heroines.