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Looks the same… it’s a shame… nothing has changed

No traffic 80s now always traffic

I was 8th years old Mahattan Bell Atlantic building and World Trade

52 yrs old, lived in both Sunnyside and Whitestone. Did that drive million times. Still sucks. Lol.

This was filmed on my 11th bday. 😊

Could you upload the continued footage, you were just about to pass through my exit : )

This is a hidden gem. Is it possible to feel nostalgic about a period of time you’ve never lived? In fact, I’m not even american, I’m from Argentina! and this video about your trip through New York during the early 90s really resonated with me. I visited the city 2 years ago and I loved it. It really was a cultural shock. I would love to live in NYC for some period of time, just to see what it feels like… I’m looking forward to it. By the way, how old were you that day and where are you living now?

Hi there, I was the first to comment on this video. Today is 7-10-24, essentially the exact same date as this video. Out of sheer curiosity, at 1:30pm (the time you said roughly the video was filmed), I went to google maps and typed in both your starting point and ending point. The trip, according to Google, was 19 minutes; 5 minutes longer than it took you. However, Google assumes you go the speed limit; thus, realistically, it was probably 16 or 17 minutes. Goes to show you that, indeed, traffic is a bit worse today. Thought I'd pass this along; hope you're doing great wherever you are at!!

13:44 they say about 180 cars per day were stolen in NYC

You know whats so appealing about this video? The fact that the narrative at the bottom makes me feel like im in the truck with you and you're shooting the shit with me about how it used to be 👍🏽🤣 I lived not too far off exit 35 westbound. Great vid btw

I remember growing up in the early 2000's when most cars on the road still looked like these and trucks/buses still had Dayton wheels.

So there was a time when the BQE used to be divided into two separate spans for the two directions from the area where it crosses from Metropolitan Avenue to about halfway on the way to Queens?

What is Johnny Law second album called?

i've born too late

0:36 percent skyline view a shot and time capsule of memories

In the Who’s The Boss opening sequence, they show the Brooklyn Queens Expressway.

this is amazing .. I like the old graffiti, of the Flip tag on that van, before navigation, before social media , good times. did you film this on old vhs camera cameras .. great video

good exploitation of an opponents msitake

I like this song

This is the Brooklyn I loved and miss! Thank you for taking me back

this highway didn't change until recently

I was born in 99, very cool video

i really enjoyed your commentary during this.

How did you shoot this video while driving?

Video is great. Would be nice to find the names of the songs or links to them. Thanks

Just stumbled across this video and I'm hypnotized! I lived off exit 32 just a few years ago but had to move due to high rents :( I'm a filmmaker and I love the bits of your life story you included in this video. :D I wish I got to be an adult back then, but I was only 3 lol

2:23 Peugeot 405!

look how peaceful everyone was driving. using turn signals and driving the speed limit

i was born in Brooklyn, moved to long island at 10 years old . I currently live in huntington station also , and work in elwood . howdy neighbor!

What sticks out is how smooth the asphalt is. Roads crumble these days.

Maspeth Avenue Holders- 6:39 Remember those tanks from my childhood everytime going over the Kosciusko Bridge.

Take exit 33 (Humboldt street- 6:27) make a right. Take Humboldt street all the way until you hit Montrose Avenue. Then make a left. Go down 1 block and your at "Danny's Pizzeria" since 1983.

There is something so interesting about looking back on the past, the way things used to be. I was not born until 2004 but it still seems so nostalgic or like what a time to be alive. Additionally, I never considered myself a city person, but I do live only an hour and a half from NYC, and the last couple times I went I started to realize why people enjoy it. Not that I would want to live in a small apartment for any period of my life, but visiting the city and just seeing everything going on is cool.

wheres the new video i want to know what happened

That play and finish at 0:24 ..... WOW! Great hustle.

Oh damn the old maspeth tanks and old school suburban.

Whats the name of the songs? They dont show up.

Before 911. Before social media. Before daily mass shootings. Before co vid. How far we have fallen 💯✅

Funny I actually remember that roadwork around 10:40 on the drive thru that part into Queens. That work went on for a while!

1:04 waot hold up how tf are you not worried or were you actually? About the risk of collision or crashing etc by using the camcorder with driving?

Woah cool lol I was thinking of expressway as ,eaning a train but had not stopped tp realose well that involves non paved road but rather rail and track obviously... but yeah so that is neat though I forget the difference between freeway/expressway and highway too often to remember which is which ngl. 0:37 ooh fwiw I would feel it soo crazy terrifying to imagine the diffoculty both if in any big coty but also trying to find some place for one to park letalone store an autpmobile lmao maybe even for motorcycles etc..

this reminds me of driving to NY w/ my father and all the cars we would see

I feel this the drive the story, the inflection, very good video.

Now it’s a parking lot

Take this route everyday for work

What time of day/ day of week was this? I drove from Flushing to Downtown Brooklyn every day for 37 years and I can’t remember traffic being this good, ever. Must be a morning reverse commute for you. At the time of your video, I had been doing it for ten years, with a clutch.

Same road except now people cut up at 150mph and whiteline

Thank you for this video very nostalgic

I still take this ride 2023

What a nice look and throwback. Thanks for the video. It's completely different now. If you did it today, it would be bumper to bumper traffic from the Brooklyn Bridge to the Kosciuszko Bridge. No matter what time of day, there is always insane traffic now because those neighborhoods are repopulated. It's worse than LA. Williamsburg, Greenpoint, and Long Island City look like Dubai now with all of the fancy new high rises and condos all along the BQE. New Kosciuszko Bridge is fancier looking now too and all lit up at night. There is even talk and plans to move the BQE underground and tear down the Brooklyn Heights part. Amazing how it changed so much in over thirty years.