BoingBoing points us to this fine archive of “54”-era New York night life shots. It’s not safe for work (unless, presumably, you are or work for Ian Schrager), but there are some gems (marked safe or not):

• Fashion mogul Halston, gay/red-baiting pit-bull for McCarthy Roy Cohn, and 54-owner Steve Rubell (SFW)
• Tim Leary, clearly in his element (SFW)
• Brooke Shields and Mariel Hemingway, looking oddly demure (how old was Brooke?) (SFW)
• Bill, Ron, Mick, Keith, and Jack (SFW)
• Patti Smith and bullwhip-storage pioneer Robert Mapplethorpe (SFW)
• One we we think ought to be captioned “Lick you? Sure, but I’m not putting down my drink or my cigaratte.” (NSFW)
• Porn star Annie Sprinkle, an amputee, and a lot of Crisco (Profoundly NSFW)

It’s worth paging through all of them. New York was like a different planet then, apparently.