Crime Tales 1982 – Short Documentary On NYC Hustlers

I play the street life because there’s no place I can go. Street life, it’s the only life I know!” – Randy Crawford

Docu Short Crime Tales 1982 gives viewers a real-life taste of what it was like being a street hustler and sex worker in New York during the early 1980s. 

Created by Robert Burden and Dictelio Cepeda, was made as a program segment for the Spring 1982 series of Communications Update, and subsequently shown at the Kitchen (February 1983), at the Jon Leon Gallery (June 1983), at Mr Dead and Mrs Free’s Café (July 1983), and at The Museum of Modern Art (November 1983) according to Communications Update,