Warriors ... Come Out to Playyy-ayy

Although the Corsair spent much of the mid-to-late 1970s shuttling between Kips Bay and the United Nations School in embassy Town Cars, we admired the garrish, funky lines and gotham-gothic grafitti that festooned the urban-decayed landscape. We watched with awe from within our gilded "Diplo-bratic" cage. And nothing is more the fully-realized Fort Apachiness of New York City circa late-70s than The Warriors (with a sleeper performance by Deborah Van Valkenberg, of "Too Close for Comfort":