New York in the '70s is a concept album by British alternative rock artist Luke Haines.

Into his song "Cerne Abbas Man", he refers Rock and Roll Animals in the sentence The birds were in my last LP.

As the title tells, Haines describes some scenes from New York City in 1970s art world.

Following his two last albums, Haines namedropping a bunch of people as Lou Reed, Jim Carroll, Bill Cunningham, Jimi Hendrix, all the members of The New York Dolls and few others.

The band Suicide seems to have a huge influence on the album from its style, but also as Alan Vega is referred to in the first and last track.