How the Early Eighties Changed New York City's Culture

The now-defunct music venue CBGB was home to many punk bands like The Ramones, Talking Heads, and Television.

Hanya Yanagihara, editor-in-chief of T: The New York Times Style Magazine and author of A Little Life (Anchor, reprint edition, 2016), reflects on how three years in the early 1980s -- from early 1981 until late 1983 -- shaped and changed the culture of New York -- and the world.