article_snippet.sent: Sheldon Nadelman, 80, who worked at Terminal Bar from 1973 to 1982, would meet and photograph the women as the women came in at eight in the morning for three shots of cognac before going out to walk the streetsthe streets.
article_snippet.sent: Sheldon Nadelman, a young bartender who is now 80, would watch as prostitutes hid behind newsstands and trash cans to avoid being seen.
article_snippet.sent: Nadelman amateur work, which includes thousands of portraits from the period, often focused on the street trash can Nadelman could see from the bar, where a cross section of Times Square's hustlers and homeless stopped for a rest.
article_snippet.sent: Nadelman, who lived in Greenwich Village before leaving the city to raise Nadelman children, snapped genuine  shots as sex workers hid behind newsstands to avoid police at the terminal across the street and watched as the lives of many who entered Nadelman slowly fall apart. '
article_snippet.sent: the street eats them alive,' Nadelman said of Nadelman 's clients, which included a combination of gay men, cross-dressers, actors and alcoholics all mixing together in a small patch of Midtown Manhattan not yet known for commercial glitz.
article_snippet.sent: Nadelman's voyeuristic shots were often captured through the open door of Nadelman , allowing Nadelman to see a candid cross section of 1970s New York not available in project that took place over a shorter time period .
article_snippet.sent: Nadelman would hang portraits of Nadelman customers on the wall, and made a little pocket money selling his customers or $5 a pop.
article_snippet.sent: Nadelman, who would meet many of the pimps, prostitutes and others who gathered around Terminal Bar, watched as many of Nadelman, who would meet many of the pimps, prostitutes and others who gathered around Terminal Bar lives took turns for the worse .
article_snippet.sent: The bar's clients included a combination of gay men, cross-dressers, actors and alcoholics who mingled together in a neighborhood described as the 'dirtiest, wildest, toughest anywhere' A prostitute nicknamed Red (right) was one of the luckier stories captured by Nadelman.
highlights_snippet.sent: Sheldon Nadelman, 80, captured images of New Yorkers while working at Terminal Bar on 41st Street and 8th Ave .
  