"These scenes and these people were simply part of daily life in New York. But with the passage of time, the photographs I made take on new meanings and resonate in a different way. They become part of history. Photographs can make us recognize that although the world undergoes changes, human beings — who we are, what we need and what we care about — remain the same."

In my latest for i-D, Hazel Hankin (@hazel.hankin) unearths never-before-seen street photographs from the 1970s and '80s, as seen through the eye of a native New Yorker.

Photos: Hazel Hankin. 1/Neighborhood salsa band, Lower East Side, 1976. 2/Three young women with boombox, Prospect Park, Brooklyn, 1980s.