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You got half a million subscribers! Support the channel?? Seems those views will support you well. Hope you're giving back to the communities your exploiting??? Really, I hope you're helping these communities.
Bringing back some not so good memories. I went to school there . We used to put a paper note on the windshield when we parked our cars on the street that read "no money, no radio" . One day someone broke my small window in the rear door. The thief obviously didn't find anything valuable, but he had a great sense of humor, he added " just checking" on the note I left under my windshield.
Thanks for posting this video ! As a Greek, the "old" harlem is what we knew thought the hollywood movies. It was nice to see real footage of its streets!
We lost 80% of our buildings in the South Bronx. It was crazy!! My mom came home one night and the landlord literally told her.. the building is finished!! He left!! The building was massive and absolutely beautiful. They don’t build apartments with space like that anymore. The whole block literally died overnight. Even in those hard times we were able to be happy!! We did create a strong sense of community and friendship with our family, friends and neighbors. They always tried to help one another. I still have wonderful memories of those times.
It's funny how people look at the 80s with nostalgic affection. Yeah, it was generally a great time for me because I was a teenager in LA and loved the heavy metal scene on the Sunset Strip. But people forget that this was also the era of crack addiction, high crime and gang violence, drive by shootings and AIDS. Girls wore oversized flannels and baggy pants, and crunched their hair together with tons of hair spray. It itched when you tried to kiss them. Parents also lost their jobs and we lived off mac and cheese and top ramen. Good times. But I still miss those days.
This is why what Charlie does is so important because in 30-40 years people will be watching his videos of neighborhoods now to see how much they’ve changed. He’s literally making visual/audio time capsules.
these videos are stupid. Charlie takes only one segment of a neighborhood and portrays it as a complete representation to fit a specific narrative. There were awesome places in Harlem in 1989 and there are shitty places even in 2020. You have to see the entire neighborhood.
@@bigfun7372 I’m pretty sure we get the picture with the “awesome” parts but it’s the ghetto that we should document so that we don’t keep making the same mistakes over and over again.
@@Ayotzi94 ok I get it. You are correct. but why use the filter for extra effect? and If we really want to show where we went wrong, he should show how gentrified many of the ghettos really are in this day and age. east ny, south bronx, jamaica, these neighborhoods are COMPLETELY changing/changed. But then again that would not fit charlie's fabricated narrative.
@@Phreshie91 it’s still shitty area but would you rather have what it used to look like or now? As you can see they put effort n money towards Harlem. Can you give NY credit for that at least?
Wow what an amazing video. From a lifelong born and bred Bradford (UK) lad this video hits home. We went through a similar resurgence in our area. Growing up we didn't really notice it as we saw everything being built. But just like this video shows. When you do a before and after you see the immense changes.
Вот такие картинки нужно было показывать в 80е на Советском ТВ. Как Гарлем 89,похож на С-Пб 90х. И там и там можно было снимать фильмы о войне. Атмосферно было, не то что сейчас, прилизано.
The Detroit housing shown was huge, those are large, well constructed houses. I'm struck by the extensive use of brick columns in the front of many of these homes, sometimes setting off a single first level porch but often supporting porches on both the first and second levels. But the houses just seem so large and well constructed. What a shame.
I drove a City bus in Harlem throughout the 80's and 90's. It's amazing how it's changed. Alot of those burnt out buildings you show in this video were owned by speculators who sat on them for years. The regular people who lived up there used to complain,"Why don't they do something with these buildings". Eventually they did and cashed in.The neighborhood got Gentrified and many long time residents got pushed out. I remember a lady telling me the only place a person can afford to live is the Projects. I have good memories of driving the 8th Ave bus. The people of Harlem were always good to me. Especially my regulars from the Polo Grounds houses.Peace to you all.
Thank you for this piece of information. We assume that the burnt down, smashed up buildings and empty lots were from the people not caring about their neighborhood. But it always comes down to rich real estate owners and gentrification. The people who own the property, but don't care about the neighborhood.
@@ricky-sanchez There was the book about it in eighties (did forgot the title), was about real estate speculation in New York and how they even burn the buildings and how they done to does look "naturally"
Thanks for telling the story of what was really going on. I loved my neighborhood, still do. I have walked many of these street. The gentrification is horrible.
I live on one the streets they drove down in the 2020 clip, so interesting to see the comparison. Not from NYC originally but from downtown Chicago and to have seen so many of the changes there in the last 20 years has been crazy too.
... unlike some of the artsy crap with "documentary feel" being produced these days.... Get No-Shake Jones a contract with Hollywood ASAP -- he can teach those so-called "filmmakers" a thing or two!
I was really young when Harlem looked like that in the 80's and I have to admit, I got sentimental because even though my siblings and I grew up in Harlem and it was rough at times, our parents kept our heads in the books and in Church but we still had great times with our family and friends I will always be in love with Harlem USA
In 1968 we were in Manhattan for the day and got lost and ended up in Harlem. Not good back then, especially for a young white couple in a brand new gold Mustang fastback. We went down one street in an attempt to get to the main avenue. Lots of people in the street, who refused to move, buildings with no windows, garbage everywhere. We had never seen anything like it. We were forced to stop. Our car was surrounded. People, mostly young males were punching the hood and windows yelling at us. Then one boy around 10 had a pigeon in his hands. He ripped off its wings and smeared the bloody body across the drivers side windshield. We revved the engine and they let us by. NYC had some unbelievably bad, seriously bad areas. We were born in NYC, Brooklyn, but as naive teens, we really did not grasp the ugly reality and danger of inner city ghettos. We never got lost again. If it looked bad in 1989, you should have seen how bad it looked in the ‘60’s.
@@je862 - Well, sadly it’s very true. We had the Mustang until 1971, not long after we married. It was poorly designed, no weight in the back. My dad put two bags of cement in the hatchback to give it some weight. If we braked too quickly, which does happen in NYC traffic, the car would fishtail. My husband became a NYC policeman, and ended up working that area for a while.
@@mchapman1928 Wow, nice story! Thanks for your reply.....I know what you mean with the mustangs being poorly designed. I owned a '68 stang in 1985 when I was 20 yrs old, and it just wasn't a good car. The heater worked poorly (was probably designed that way) and like you stated, light back end. If you are familiar with the Steve McQueen movie 'Bullitt', the mustang he drove was brand new and you can see clouds of blue smoke coming from the exhaust, hence it was burning oil right from the factory. Much respect to your husband being in law enforcement, in that area, at that particular time! Must have been scary at times!
@@je862 - Thank you. The back seat was a joke. It was about 3” off the floor. No fun when you went out with friends. lol I went to the ‘64 Worlds Fair in Queens, New York, the prototype of the Mustang was there on a revolving platform. I believe it was a convertible. Everyone was going ga ga over it. Today they sell for outlandish prices. We paid sticker price in ‘68 bottom line was $3040.00. and we had to wait 8 weeks to get it. Gold with black interior. My father thought that was too much money for a car. Lol
@@je862 - I do remember that movie. His Mustang was a GT, and probably manipulated to blow off smoke for effect. Our ‘68 was a six cylinder I believe, not really sure. It rode rough, had zero amenities, and dented quite easily. Kids were playing football in the street and the ball hit the roof, and dented it badly. Wasn’t a regulation football either. We were happy to get rid of it. We bought a Buick Le Sabre, now that was a tank. It had a big V8 engine and sucked up the gas, but at 36¢ per gallon, we didn’t care much.
My aunt moved from my south american country to Harlem with her husband in early 70's. One night, not so late he went for groceries and a gang robbed him and kicked him and told him to stay on the floor where they kept kicking him for one whole block and then he was dumped in a large dumpster where he spent a few hours hiding because he was too scared. Luckily for him, he didn't sustain any major injuries and being young and healthy played a big part. I guess being a white latino in the wrong part of town didn't pay off.
This my hood here 148th and 147th between 7th and 8th Avenue. Man so many memories.....truly blessed most of the friends I grew up with died on this two blocks!
Lol that doesn’t mean that nowadays is worse than back then. Back in those days crime was huge so don’t act like they were good times. Plus, you wouldn’t survive without your phone, don’t lie.
@@charlesrusso hell no you would be hearing people getting attacked, maybe you’ll be attacked yourself. So don’t act like those times are better. Plus you’ll be begging to use your phone. Ain’t trying to be rude, my apologies if I am.
At 2:25 I hurt my knee in that school yard in 87 and needed reconstructive surgery. I was 6 years old. I grew up on that block, my whole family was on crack and BCW came and took me away from them.....the best thing that ever happened to me
Damn Charlie has run out of hoods to roll through in present times, and has stolen the infinity gauntlet to use the time stone in order to keep producing content
I remember visiting New York City for the first time when I was 9, around 1990. We drove from Toronto. Dad took us for the first time. I was super excited. I was expecting glitz and glamour, and when I got there and saw scenes like this, I was horrified.
Everybody that comes to America says the same thing. Its not a different place then everywhere else. There are nice areas and bad areas and sometimes they interchange over time. The good thing about the USA is that there are allot of places in between. If you work modestly hard you can pretty much achieve the in between. That's pretty good odds compared to other places.
@@sheastadium2008 Whole city was bad due to hippies, coming of age baby boomers and people born in the 1930s, democrats, foreigners, etc... When you destroy the old culture of America, you are bound to suffer in the 1960s to present.
People in all world is normal - dont lie on every step like Americans for the even little profit. Most of people in world think, that if country try to teach everyone how to live - it have no problems in it.
The US government turned a blind eye to the transportation of cocaine into the USA. At that time it made it's way into low income and poverty stricken communities. Often times those commies were made of the minorities because let's not forget we were still battling with SEGREGATION?!?! The fact that that was even part of our history is simply repulsive. The number of arrest made in the 1980s pertaining to drugs went up significantly and you guessed it! Over 60% of those arrest were of minorities in areas of poverty. This resulted in a very negative outlook on African Americans at the time time which resulted in the lack of funding to certain cities, schools, and districts. In turn, the precious city you loved in the 1960s was made that way intentionally to further degrade and dehumanize the minorities. The fact that shortly before that time we had just ended WW2, MLKJ. was murdered, the outlook on racism was turning tide as many stood up for their human rights says a lot about where the government truly had power. No longer could they physically control the minorities so they turned the communities and the law against them to work in their favor. Its the most hellish thing America could have done. This city looked like this at the hands of our government. We still fight for equal funding to low income areas TO THIS DAY and cities all across the USA are in shambles due to the recklessness of the US government. Not proud to be an American with this historical fact living in my head. We need change then and we need it today and we need it tomorrow. BLM
WOW I was wondering how it looks today, and thats great to see it is sooo much better than it was! I'm proud of the ones who decided to clean it up and hopefully life is better for the people who live there now!
What's interesting in the 1989 vid was that the street level vista was rugged as hell, but look at most of the cars parked on the street - mostly recent model sedans in decent condition.
It’s crazy because I was just in Harlem a couple days ago and when I was there I was “like I wonder what this place looked like during the crack epidemic” thanks for the vid 💯
That video only shows a few tiny sections, though. It wasn't all like that, and the vibe wasn't depressing like the video. Having said that, it definitely wasn't as shiny and new looking like it is today.
It looks crazy. I was kid and I remember it looking just like these videos. We couldn’t even play in the parks because they would be empty crack vials everywhere.
I'm from Argentina and I love the old rap culture from this country, in the 80's and 90's was the best rap... I can imagine walking on the street and listen tupac's song from every house
This is how I remember the city as a kid. It’s amazing how those buildings could be so beautiful if they weren’t so rundown and vacant that’s when they used to put a lot of time and effort into constructing buildings. Am I the only one that’s most intrigued by the old cars? You just don’t see those anymore
You dont see 'em anymore because they were gas guzzlers and were a boat to drive.. thats probably back when they still used metal body work instead of fiberglass
I also liked the cars. Cars nowadays are really so boring, looking apathetic, having no personality. Cars in the old days had some kind of "life" in them.
Stop 🤥 lying bro, Harlem way worse, Kensington only bad for 2024 ,in 2024 yes Kensington the absolute worse but stop it,Harlem in 1989 was the worse n south Bronx even worse, there's no comparison......
@@chrisd913 south Bronx does not look like bx of 70s 80s n 90s lol bro u talking the infrastructure n buildings? Bro south Bronx was like it was hit by bombs kid,they fixed most of it up bro,not all but def most
This is the Harlem i remember when i used to visit my auntie in the late 80's through the mid 90's my auntie still lives in Harlem in the same brownstone she bought with her late husband(my late uncle Juan)in 1970 she's now 75 years young still feisty as ever and she still won't move from Harlem even though she's been offered close to $2million for her brownstone she told me God forbid she passes away she's leaving the house to me and my sister
Have you watched gringo. Movie about an heroin addict in nyc. It was meant to star Johnny thunders but his parts were cut in the end and they used mr spacelys scenes. Very sad really. They are both dead now.
Especially EXCELLENT for all us history lovers out there. This footage would help me with flashback scenes for a faith-based mystery-thriller on a peculiar dream I had in October of that same year this was shot.
I was born in Harlem, moved to Pennsylvania when I was 9. When I came back to visit NY was so different from what I remember as a kid and teen going back lol THIS is the ny I remember
By the grace of God, October 6, 1989 the day I got sober. 33 years of continious sobriety. Living in Hawaii with a paid off house. All of what I had comes from sobriety. Looking at Harlem, is a reminder where I don't want to be, mentally or physically. A lot of people I'm seeing are dead already.😮
@@Blubkeks100 no, I abused the privilege. I never drank socially, always drank to excess. Everything I have in life is directly tied to me getting sober.😀
I was 20 years old back in 1989. I was a college student upstate New York @ the State University Of New York College at Oswego. I recall very vividly how the city looked back then. I’d say 3/4 of the city was like this. Not just Harlem. Glad to see things got better
"its like a Jungle sometimes it makes me wander how I keep from going under" Grandmaster flash and the furious 5 the message. Definitely the song for this video
I always understood the lyrics of "The Message" but until I watched this video I never realized how grimy their conditions were. "The Message" is the perfect summation of their times and situations.
This is wild to look at. I lived in NYC in 1989 and it’s like I totally forgot Harlem used to look like this. I definitely avoided certain areas and stuck to more “established” areas of Harlem if I went there, but you still had to be careful. You go down the wrong block and you could find yourself in serious trouble.
Why I always LOL at people saying NYC is worst now than it was in the '80s and 90's .. people really don't have a clue of how bad it was in the '70s, 80s and early '90s
and this was at that time and still is, richest city in the world, in the richest country in the world. We were moving pretty slowly, starting from industrial revolution, even in 1989 global economy and accumulated wealth and overal development was pretty low. People in comment section are saying that most of the city look like this, we're not talking about few random streets. Comparing to today, changes are vast and are only accelerating each year.
Yes! I am one of those 18 year olds who is 50 (actually 54) today. What makes me a bit upset about this is although it was rough, not all blocks looked like this. Mine didn't. It wasn't pristine either, but not like this video. Same for my Aunt's block, my scout leader's, my church and my school's block. Yes there were too many like these, but it was not the whole story by a long shot.
I visited NYC in 1992 for the first time and we stayed in a youth hostel in Harlem. Our car was broken in the frist night, because my sister left her backpack in it. But as far as I can remember it was much nicer there, a little bit dirty, but not all these demolished buildings.
The drug crack did not do that to the city. This was happening across the U.S. because the rich educated affluent people left big dense cities and instead moved to the suburbs. It started in the 50’s and 60’s. The people not rich enough to move out inhabited dilapidated cities
I'm from Brooklyn. I first went to Harlem in the summer of 1988. I was a little kid and was just shocked and amazed. I've still never seen anywhere as "LIT" as a hot summer night in 1980's Harlem. I'm glad I have those memories.
Coney Island here. I remember walking through Harlem and the Bronx and it looked like bombed out WWII Germany. No life or sense of hope. Gentrification has does wonders, but at what expense ?
@@ignaciopullum9891 expense? What harm has it caused when the alternative is known? Property, especially in high tax high regulation NYC is very expensive. No capital, no upkeep. If landlords can't make money, they burn the place like 1980's Harlem. Only other way to reduce rents is cut the absurd Property taxes but we both know that will never happen.
Washington Heights in 1988 was even worse and lit was an understatement, especially at night. Almost every street east of Broadway was filled with Jehri curl haired hicks with no socks selling cocaine and crack.
@@ignaciopullum9891 I've been in the Bronx for almost 30 years after living in Inwood for 18 years. Yes, a lot of the Bronx was burned out. But a lot of it wasn't, like where I live now. Gentrification has its good side and bad side. I don't worry about gentrifiers coming to my neighborhood. It's too far from "the city" (as they call it) and they wouldn't like the Italian/Albanian vibe in the neighborood. Which I'm good with.
This is the NY I remember. My family took a trip there once in the mid 1980s and we accidentally drove through some of the bad parts and it looked just like this.
This was how it looked in my neighborhood growing up in pittsburgh at that time. When the steel industry went under, alot of people hit real hard times.
Я гулял. Я в Америке первый раз. Я же не знаю, что у вас не везде можно ходить. У нас вот везде можно. Я на метро ехал, увидел в окошко красивые дома, вышел. Около бара какого-то они начали приставать.
Harlem, The South Bronx, Brownsville Brooklyn and the Lower East Side all looked like war zones in the 70's through the 80's.. As messed up as certain parts of the city was it was still magical in a lot of ways.
Because the children of Israel is the Salt of the earth despite the conditions.....Israelites were in these neighborhoods. We are in the hands of our enemies down bad.
@@ebiz2085 That's the reason people like you were in that building that fell and crush those people down in Miami over 100 people gone Mn Wmn and children and I wont feel sorry for you when you're demise come.
@@Tommyr Everybody still has a real life to live, besides it is natural for civilizations to advance and better their technology. You must be a very pessimistic person to have that kind of mindset that people today don’t live “real lives” in fact I don’t think you have a “real life” yourself. Happy Mother’s Day you boomer !
My aunt lived in Manhattan in the 1980s. I remember going with my parents to visit her a few times. All of NY was pretty bad. You'd pass by burnt out cars on Wall St. and police investigating a murder scene in the middle of the day a couple of blocks from the WTC. Central Park was pretty bad during the day. At night it was pretty much a no-go area.
I am german. I was in 1997 in New York. I visit this City except Harlem and Bronx. I Don't know but I think this time was better than in this Video. Many greets❤
My cousin from Ohio went into real estate with two friends early 90's in Harlem. They bought burned out or run down buildings for almost nothing. Paid the property tax/insurance and just let them sit as is for about ten years, sold them off and made a damn fortune. Wish I had taken the gamble with them but I was too impatient.
@@driveruwsThese apartment buildings have to have been a once in a century investment; there are no global financial markets headquartered in Detroit.
yup that's part of the problem, real estate speculators buying properties and letting them sit dilapidated. it's a shame but i'm not gonna lie and say i wouldn't do that same if i could make money that way.
5:23 For you young folks here, that’s what we call a pay phone. This is a device that we had to insert quarters, nickels, or dimes into so we could communicate with each other when we were away from home.
As someone who had grown up in the second half of the 2000's I remember pay phones would be by bus stops, gas stations, and by the McDonald's along with those newspaper stands. Now they are just graffiti'd structures with no phone attached. They started to disappear in the 2010's
I grew up in queens in the 80s. Finally moved when I was 12 in 89. Imagine moving from this to a small town of about 5,000 population in the middle of South Carolina 😆 talk about a culture shock.
@@NinoG053 yes. And it seemed like an extremely over populated , extremely cramped living situation for everyone there. No way would I ever live there again. Even if u paid me.
I moved from rural NJ to rural PA when I was about 15, and even then.. there was some element of culture shock. So, I can only imagine what you experienced was like day N night.
Looks more as S 8mm Kodak film. Think, this alarm in background may be sign that roll go to the end, you can still make 2:30 min with one roll and 25 fps
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Who recorded the old footage?
Charlie Great Video, Thank you for posting it, this is such an Awesome Classic Video
@@caitgems1 I wonder if it was Charlie haha
Show us your time machine bro
You got half a million subscribers! Support the channel?? Seems those views will support you well. Hope you're giving back to the communities your exploiting??? Really, I hope you're helping these communities.
Bringing back some not so good memories. I went to school there . We used to put a paper note on the windshield when we parked our cars on the street that read "no money, no radio" . One day someone broke my small window in the rear door. The thief obviously didn't find anything valuable, but he had a great sense of humor, he added " just checking" on the note I left under my windshield.
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Hahahahaha 🤣🙏🏻
At least it makes for a great story to tell at parties 👍🏻
Great story......
If I caught him I would forgive him
Sick 😷
Have to admit that's some damn good video quality for 1989. Loved it.
Better than most banks surveillance systems lol
I agree. I have a fascination with old technology. I’m thinking about buying a tape (voice) recorder.
Yeahhhh hahahaha I Wonder? Real good.. shit look like Apple Like..
Could be remastered
It's film so it is very easy to remaster and convert to high definition
New York: From unlivable to unaffordable in less than a generation
they keep voting democrat.
Yeah, all those Democrat landlords. Damn commies.
@@thejunkmanlivesYeah its almost like voting for Democrats turned it into a beautiful, clean and much safer city. Imagine that.
@@RobMarchioneI dont think you want to play the democrat cities vs republican cities game.
@@SonOfMorningEspecially when two Republicans, Reagan and Bush Sr. flooded America with crack cocaine in the 80s!
Thanks for posting this video ! As a Greek, the "old" harlem is what we knew thought the hollywood movies. It was nice to see real footage of its streets!
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THESE ARE TOTALLY DIFFERENT STREETS.
@@ROBERTMORAN-mv7eqit does not matter in our mind america is smthning between gta hoods and the sopranos
Nice??? Χάλια μαύρα καλύτερα...
Now he time travels to the worst hoods.
lol i was like con way Charlie had a camera in the 80's lol
His car is a time machine fr
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Charlie Mcfly
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CharlieBo must be driving a certified hood delorean traveling back in time and shit
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*gets the flux capacitor shot the fuck up and makes a whole movie finding Doc and Marty*
Love to see that CharlieBo is more famous than I thought.
Lol
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We lost 80% of our buildings in the South Bronx. It was crazy!! My mom came home one night and the landlord literally told her.. the building is finished!! He left!! The building was massive and absolutely beautiful. They don’t build apartments with space like that anymore. The whole block literally died overnight. Even in those hard times we were able to be happy!! We did create a strong sense of community and friendship with our family, friends and neighbors. They always tried to help one another. I still have wonderful memories of those times.
It's funny how people look at the 80s with nostalgic affection. Yeah, it was generally a great time for me because I was a teenager in LA and loved the heavy metal scene on the Sunset Strip. But people forget that this was also the era of crack addiction, high crime and gang violence, drive by shootings and AIDS. Girls wore oversized flannels and baggy pants, and crunched their hair together with tons of hair spray. It itched when you tried to kiss them. Parents also lost their jobs and we lived off mac and cheese and top ramen. Good times. But I still miss those days.
This is why what Charlie does is so important because in 30-40 years people will be watching his videos of neighborhoods now to see how much they’ve changed. He’s literally making visual/audio time capsules.
these videos are stupid. Charlie takes only one segment of a neighborhood and portrays it as a complete representation to fit a specific narrative. There were awesome places in Harlem in 1989 and there are shitty places even in 2020. You have to see the entire neighborhood.
@@bigfun7372 I’m pretty sure we get the picture with the “awesome” parts but it’s the ghetto that we should document so that we don’t keep making the same mistakes over and over again.
I agree 👍🏽💯👏🏾I'm 38 from Boston but I still appreciate the visual & seeing history!!
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@@Ayotzi94 ok I get it. You are correct. but why use the filter for extra effect? and If we really want to show where we went wrong, he should show how gentrified many of the ghettos really are in this day and age. east ny, south bronx, jamaica, these neighborhoods are COMPLETELY changing/changed. But then again that would not fit charlie's fabricated narrative.
Big L wasn’t lying when he called Harlem the danger zone back in the days. Gota give NY pros they definitely cleaned it up and made it look better.
If anything, they didn't make enough public housing like they should've.
@@Manbarrican not sure what they did last time I was in NY was in 2008
begs the question...for who? sure something looks better but doesn't mean that it functionally and socially benefits the most people. just saying...
@@Phreshie91 it’s still shitty area but would you rather have what it used to look like or now? As you can see they put effort n money towards Harlem. Can you give NY credit for that at least?
Indeed 139 and Lenox... And he died right around there.. Sad... Now there are expensive condos on Lenox Ave
Wow what an amazing video. From a lifelong born and bred Bradford (UK) lad this video hits home. We went through a similar resurgence in our area. Growing up we didn't really notice it as we saw everything being built. But just like this video shows. When you do a before and after you see the immense changes.
I was living in rural Yorkshire for 15 years. You had to see that...
@chachenaki_kichenancha a beautiful part of the world
Спасибо людям, запечатлевшим в свое время часть истории на камеру и позволяющим через много лет кратковременно окунуться в ту среду.
В тот четверг😅
там ничего не изменилось прикинь как была помойка так и осталась
Как похорошел Гарлем спустя время ))
Yea! those would be the cops who recorded this footage
Вот такие картинки нужно было показывать в 80е на Советском ТВ.
Как Гарлем 89,похож на С-Пб 90х. И там и там можно было снимать фильмы о войне.
Атмосферно было, не то что сейчас, прилизано.
Those apartments probably sell for millions of dollars today
The white man's game bro
white ppl fault if you voted a white into power thats your falt too! 🤷♂️
@@judeugato I did not said that was white people's fault in general
somehow i doubt a white man with large enough pocket would want to live there
@@judeugato blk man's game bro
Respect for my boy Charlie for going all the way back to 89 for this one.
He really REALLY put a lot of miles on his car in order to do this one for sure
lol
Wait so is this video actually recorded by Charles bo 😂😂😂
@@bpsnallwell4204 🙉
@@bpsnallwell4204 bruh
Wow, much appreciated for this footage.
The Detroit housing shown was huge, those are large, well constructed houses. I'm struck by the extensive use of brick columns in the front of many of these homes, sometimes setting off a single first level porch but often supporting porches on both the first and second levels. But the houses just seem so large and well constructed. What a shame.
Would be cool to see a direct, spilt screen side-by-side comparison of the exact same streets/buildings then and now
5:22 with the blue/white paint is 116 Bradhurst Avenue
У русских есть такие блоги до и после
Даже до наши города были красивее чем ваш harlem
@@klaasj7808 Cool to see that the same building seems to still be there, only refurbished. Thanks for sharing the address with us.
@@user-mv8hx3kc3b До и после чего?
Agreed!!
I drove a City bus in Harlem throughout the 80's and 90's. It's amazing how it's changed. Alot of those burnt out buildings you show in this video were owned by speculators who sat on them for years. The regular people who lived up there used to complain,"Why don't they do something with these buildings". Eventually they did and cashed in.The neighborhood got Gentrified and many long time residents got pushed out. I remember a lady telling me the only place a person can afford to live is the Projects. I have good memories of driving the 8th Ave bus. The people of Harlem were always good to me. Especially my regulars from the Polo Grounds houses.Peace to you all.
Thank you for this piece of information. We assume that the burnt down, smashed up buildings and empty lots were from the people not caring about their neighborhood.
But it always comes down to rich real estate owners and gentrification. The people who own the property, but don't care about the neighborhood.
@@ricky-sanchez There was the book about it in eighties (did forgot the title), was about real estate speculation in New York and how they even burn the buildings and how they done to does look "naturally"
@@ricky-sanchez Just so incredibly cruel and selfish to sit on peoples’ neighborhoods for that reason.
the projects had to be some improvement from what is shown here; it's even worse than Detroit is now
Thanks for telling the story of what was really going on. I loved my neighborhood, still do. I have walked many of these street. The gentrification is horrible.
I can imagine how glorious those homes and streets looked in their Golden day.
How is no one talking about how you travelled back to 1982 to film this comparison? Insane
You mean to tell me that Charlie has been doing this since 1989? 😂😂😂
More like 82' and b4, lol.
😭😭
Low key in 1978
He was hanging out the side of the car with one of those big ass camcorders.
😂😂😂😂
I’m convinced that he recorded the 1989 footage too😭😭😭
For real! 😂
He did
@@bripscamponi7671 wait how old is he??
@@Lavish_Clipz it’s a joke
@@bripscamponi7671 fr? It seems like it 👀
I live on one the streets they drove down in the 2020 clip, so interesting to see the comparison. Not from NYC originally but from downtown Chicago and to have seen so many of the changes there in the last 20 years has been crazy too.
I miss the oldschool cars like the Buick, Oldsmobile and the Chevrolets etc. in the 2020 part, for the rest nice video :)
the person who recorded in the 80s did a amazing job..he didn't move the camera so it's wasn't shaky, that was amazing camera work
I suppose during that era, the only people who could afford such a device(video camera) would also know how to properly use them.
Этот чувак был в принципе смелым, то что снимал эти улицы
@@angry_video_game_nerd Там не один чувак. Судя по голосам, в салоне двое мужчин и одна женщина.
Thanks! They didn’t call me Camera “No Shake” Jones, for nothing
... unlike some of the artsy crap with "documentary feel" being produced these days....
Get No-Shake Jones a contract with Hollywood ASAP -- he can teach those so-called "filmmakers" a thing or two!
I was really young when Harlem looked like that in the 80's and I have to admit, I got sentimental because even though my siblings and I grew up in Harlem and it was rough at times, our parents kept our heads in the books and in Church but we still had great times with our family and friends
I will always be in love with Harlem USA
Same background 😭😢
@@uncoverthetruth8365 💖
Was there a side to Harlem that the outside world couldn’t see? That is, a lighter, more positive side?
Your comment makes me think of Charlie Wilson's song, My Sun Doesn't Shine Without You.
That’s what people don’t understand... we had fun while Coney Island was filled with junkies... our trampoline was mattress.
In 1968 we were in Manhattan for the day and got lost and ended up in Harlem. Not good back then, especially for a young white couple in a brand new gold Mustang fastback.
We went down one street in an attempt to get to the main avenue. Lots of people in the street, who refused to move, buildings with no windows, garbage everywhere. We had never seen anything like it. We were forced to stop. Our car was surrounded. People, mostly young males were punching the hood and windows yelling at us. Then one boy around 10 had a pigeon in his hands. He ripped off its wings and smeared the bloody body across the drivers side windshield. We revved the engine and they let us by.
NYC had some unbelievably bad, seriously bad areas. We were born in NYC, Brooklyn, but as naive teens, we really did not grasp the ugly reality and danger of inner city ghettos. We never got lost again.
If it looked bad in 1989, you should have seen how bad it looked in the ‘60’s.
Sounds really sketchy! How long did you have the mustang?
@@je862 - Well, sadly it’s very true. We had the Mustang until 1971, not long after we married. It was poorly designed, no weight in the back. My dad put two bags of cement in the hatchback to give it some weight. If we braked too quickly, which does happen in NYC traffic, the car would fishtail. My husband became a NYC policeman, and ended up working that area for a while.
@@mchapman1928 Wow, nice story! Thanks for your reply.....I know what you mean with the mustangs being poorly designed. I owned a '68 stang in 1985 when I was 20 yrs old, and it just wasn't a good car. The heater worked poorly (was probably designed that way) and like you stated, light back end.
If you are familiar with the Steve McQueen movie 'Bullitt', the mustang he drove was brand new and you can see clouds of blue smoke coming from the exhaust, hence it was burning oil right from the factory.
Much respect to your husband being in law enforcement, in that area, at that particular time! Must have been scary at times!
@@je862 - Thank you. The back seat was a joke. It was about 3” off the floor. No fun when you went out with friends. lol
I went to the ‘64 Worlds Fair in Queens, New York, the prototype of the Mustang was there on a revolving platform. I believe it was a convertible. Everyone was going ga ga over it. Today they sell for outlandish prices. We paid sticker price in ‘68 bottom line was $3040.00. and we had to wait 8 weeks to get it. Gold with black interior. My father thought that was too much money for a car. Lol
@@je862 - I do remember that movie. His Mustang was a GT, and probably manipulated to blow off smoke for effect. Our ‘68 was a six cylinder I believe, not really sure. It rode rough, had zero amenities, and dented quite easily. Kids were playing football in the street and the ball hit the roof, and dented it badly. Wasn’t a regulation football either. We were happy to get rid of it. We bought a Buick Le Sabre, now that was a tank. It had a big V8 engine and sucked up the gas, but at 36¢ per gallon, we didn’t care much.
My aunt moved from my south american country to Harlem with her husband in early 70's. One night, not so late he went for groceries and a gang robbed him and kicked him and told him to stay on the floor where they kept kicking him for one whole block and then he was dumped in a large dumpster where he spent a few hours hiding because he was too scared. Luckily for him, he didn't sustain any major injuries and being young and healthy played a big part. I guess being a white latino in the wrong part of town didn't pay off.
This is technically history in the making. A visual synopsis of civilization. Lows, highs and everything in between. Keep it up CB
Cardano to the moon #Cardigang
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Great vid
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You could hear the pager in the back ground, haven’t heard that beep in years.
Thanks. I didn't know what that was. Lol
If the young crowd watched this video in school it's almost guaranteed to make somebody ask"What's that beeping noise?"
I loved hearing it again lol like oh yeaaa lolll
First thing I said was turn off that f****** pager off and then I realized oh s*** i forgot and I started laughing. Good times
I thought it was a radar detector.
The cars back then were eye candy 🤩
Eye sore more like.
@@c0ldc0ne you have a different taste in cars, and that’s ok 👍🏼 fair enough
@@josefstrauss9017 Yep, the 40s/50s is where it’s at for me. But like you said, to each their own.
This my hood here 148th and 147th between 7th and 8th Avenue. Man so many memories.....truly blessed most of the friends I grew up with died on this two blocks!
No cellphones, no Tik Tok, just people enjoying the moment 😂
Hearing those fright train bell ringers off a huge 10 rock with a blow torch. Fuck yeah!
and some crack?
The guy’s pager goes off at 4:10 lol
Lol that doesn’t mean that nowadays is worse than back then. Back in those days crime was huge so don’t act like they were good times. Plus, you wouldn’t survive without your phone, don’t lie.
@@charlesrusso hell no you would be hearing people getting attacked, maybe you’ll be attacked yourself. So don’t act like those times are better. Plus you’ll be begging to use your phone. Ain’t trying to be rude, my apologies if I am.
At 2:25 I hurt my knee in that school yard in 87 and needed reconstructive surgery. I was 6 years old. I grew up on that block, my whole family was on crack and BCW came and took me away from them.....the best thing that ever happened to me
I'm glad things worked out well for you. And I hope your family got help.
Do you still talk to them?
@@elteescat Yes it did i have a family and i am currently employed by the city
@@princepill that's wonderful! City jobs are good money! You made out well! You broke the cycle and that rocks!
That sounds great. But please tell me, what is BCW? I’m from far, far away… Thanks in advance.
Crazy to think that some of these building apartments rent for around 3K per month now, for a one bedroom!
year 2024 and still watching old good memories, so who wanna be go back year of the 1989.. so good times
Damn Charlie has run out of hoods to roll through in present times, and has stolen the infinity gauntlet to use the time stone in order to keep producing content
next hes going to LA during Watts riot
There’s a lot more hoods he ain’t never been to
No no it’s just old footage that someone recorded back in the day. I don’t think the infinity gauntlet exists in real life
@@Davidgon100 Na forget it, he´s goin back to LA riots ´92 man.
@@SuperNovaHeights_ oh yeah? Prove it
I remember visiting New York City for the first time when I was 9, around 1990. We drove from Toronto. Dad took us for the first time. I was super excited. I was expecting glitz and glamour, and when I got there and saw scenes like this, I was horrified.
Everybody that comes to America says the same thing. Its not a different place then everywhere else. There are nice areas and bad areas and sometimes they interchange over time. The good thing about the USA is that there are allot of places in between. If you work modestly hard you can pretty much achieve the in between. That's pretty good odds compared to other places.
@@seanlove2000 During that time, the whole city was bad! I don't blame him for being shocked, it's literally the financial capital of the world.
@@sheastadium2008 Whole city was bad due to hippies, coming of age baby boomers and people born in the 1930s, democrats, foreigners, etc... When you destroy the old culture of America, you are bound to suffer in the 1960s to present.
@@seanlove2000 America is from Alaska to Argentina
People in all world is normal - dont lie on every step like Americans for the even little profit. Most of people in world think, that if country try to teach everyone how to live - it have no problems in it.
I'll take my boring life with green trees, grass, fresh air and wide open spaces over this life style and day much respect to all.
Сейчас не лучше в наркоманских районах других городов.
I am almost in tears. We lived there as young children in the 1960’s. It looked nothing like this. It was safe and beautiful. Tears
That is sad .what happened ?
The US government turned a blind eye to the transportation of cocaine into the USA. At that time it made it's way into low income and poverty stricken communities. Often times those commies were made of the minorities because let's not forget we were still battling with SEGREGATION?!?! The fact that that was even part of our history is simply repulsive. The number of arrest made in the 1980s pertaining to drugs went up significantly and you guessed it! Over 60% of those arrest were of minorities in areas of poverty. This resulted in a very negative outlook on African Americans at the time time which resulted in the lack of funding to certain cities, schools, and districts. In turn, the precious city you loved in the 1960s was made that way intentionally to further degrade and dehumanize the minorities. The fact that shortly before that time we had just ended WW2, MLKJ. was murdered, the outlook on racism was turning tide as many stood up for their human rights says a lot about where the government truly had power. No longer could they physically control the minorities so they turned the communities and the law against them to work in their favor. Its the most hellish thing America could have done. This city looked like this at the hands of our government. We still fight for equal funding to low income areas TO THIS DAY and cities all across the USA are in shambles due to the recklessness of the US government. Not proud to be an American with this historical fact living in my head. We need change then and we need it today and we need it tomorrow. BLM
Drugs
@@haleyjones3688 burn loot murder
Don't cry ma
I was a kid during these days. Going through the streets of Harlem was really scary for me. It looked like a battlefield.
WOW I was wondering how it looks today, and thats great to see it is sooo much better than it was! I'm proud of the ones who decided to clean it up and hopefully life is better for the people who live there now!
looks better, but the same ole ish. Harlem before the 80s looked better than the 2020s. Give it some time and it will sadly look like this again.
What's interesting in the 1989 vid was that the street level vista was rugged as hell, but look at most of the cars parked on the street - mostly recent model sedans in decent condition.
It’s crazy because I was just in Harlem a couple days ago and when I was there I was “like I wonder what this place looked like during the crack epidemic” thanks for the vid 💯
Take a walk to..125st..outside..
WHOLE FOODS..
Cracked d F UP..
That video only shows a few tiny sections, though. It wasn't all like that, and the vibe wasn't depressing like the video. Having said that, it definitely wasn't as shiny and new looking like it is today.
It looks crazy. I was kid and I remember it looking just like these videos. We couldn’t even play in the parks because they would be empty crack vials everywhere.
@@simone2125 what’s a empty crack vial?
Was there a government issued package for crack?
Harlem was bad but not as bad as the Bronx
This looks like an opening scene from a Charles Bronson movie.
My first thought watching this video was 'Death Wish'.
I swear right lol like death wish 3 lol
Totally
LoL 😆 ..
Or an MJ video... Wesley snipes and all..
Значит нам в СССР не врали, когда показывали такой Запад?!
I'm from Argentina and I love the old rap culture from this country, in the 80's and 90's was the best rap... I can imagine walking on the street and listen tupac's song from every house
This is how I remember the city as a kid. It’s amazing how those buildings could be so beautiful if they weren’t so rundown and vacant that’s when they used to put a lot of time and effort into constructing buildings. Am I the only one that’s most intrigued by the old cars? You just don’t see those anymore
You dont see 'em anymore because they were gas guzzlers and were a boat to drive.. thats probably back when they still used metal body work instead of fiberglass
Im enraged with the fall of Harlem from their renaissance period in the '20s
Modern cars all look very similar to one another and most are boring and ugly.
@@GladEnthusiast Agreed.
I also liked the cars. Cars nowadays are really so boring, looking apathetic, having no personality. Cars in the old days had some kind of "life" in them.
Wow, it makes more sense now why early 90's rap from New Yorkers like Biggie and Nas was very dark but real
It sucked . I left at 18. Never looked back
Immortal technique "Harlem streets"
Biggie’s from Brooklyn and Nas is from Queens but yeah the whole city was a lot rougher back then
THAT WAS TO KEEP THE PRISONS PACKED SILLY. SAME PPL WHO OWN LABEL INDSTRY OWN PRISON SYST
Yes. Oh why did capitalists, Europeans and non communists wreck these neighbourhoods and put innocent marxists there
This takes me back. If you know, you know. Otherwise, this video can only give you an idea of what it was like.
You know things are bad when even 1989 Harlem looks like paradise compared to present-day Kensington.
Stop 🤥 lying bro, Harlem way worse, Kensington only bad for 2024 ,in 2024 yes Kensington the absolute worse but stop it,Harlem in 1989 was the worse n south Bronx even worse, there's no comparison......
@@HectorRamos-pj4pxSouth Bronx still looks like that.
@@chrisd913 south Bronx does not look like bx of 70s 80s n 90s lol bro u talking the infrastructure n buildings? Bro south Bronx was like it was hit by bombs kid,they fixed most of it up bro,not all but def most
This is the Harlem i remember when i used to visit my auntie in the late 80's through the mid 90's my auntie still lives in Harlem in the same brownstone she bought with her late husband(my late uncle Juan)in 1970 she's now 75 years young still feisty as ever and she still won't move from Harlem even though she's been offered close to $2million for her brownstone she told me God forbid she passes away she's leaving the house to me and my sister
Wooo you’ll be cashing in! A milli each easy…
I bet it's a nightmare to keep taxes paid on every year but worth every penny to her she's seen it all
I'd be curious to know what they paid for it when they bought it, and what that would translate out into 2021 dollars adjusted for inflation.
Don't you dare sell that shit to some gentrifiers lol.
@@morenitomoreno1282 he can sell it and buy more property with it
I love old footage like this. It's so fascinating
Have you watched gringo. Movie about an heroin addict in nyc. It was meant to star Johnny thunders but his parts were cut in the end and they used mr spacelys scenes. Very sad really. They are both dead now.
@@matthewjdouglas6471 no I haven't. I'll look out for it & watch it. Thanx👍
Especially EXCELLENT for all us history lovers out there.
This footage would help me with flashback scenes for a faith-based mystery-thriller on a peculiar dream I had in October of that same year this was shot.
Somewhere jayz is selling crack
Yessss
Grew up there and then. Brings back good memories.
I was born in Harlem, moved to Pennsylvania when I was 9. When I came back to visit NY was so different from what I remember as a kid and teen going back lol THIS is the ny I remember
By the grace of God, October 6, 1989 the day I got sober. 33 years of continious sobriety. Living in Hawaii with a paid off house. All of what I had comes from sobriety. Looking at Harlem, is a reminder where I don't want to be, mentally or physically. A lot of people I'm seeing are dead already.😮
Sober means for you? No booze no nothin' ?
@@Blubkeks100 yes, some people might need help from a doctor . That’s between them and the doctor.
@@MrHAPPYHAWAIIAN Nah i was asking you how you define sobriety:D Not even drinking beer?
@@Blubkeks100 no, I abused the privilege. I never drank socially, always drank to excess. Everything I have in life is directly tied to me getting sober.😀
Ты в Сибирь скатайся, там трезвым не выживешь :)
salute to all the great men and women who came out of places like this and made great things happen for themselves
Yes
@@joeshmoe1316 where were you raised, and where do you live nowdays
Damn. Well said.
What you mean by "great things?" Money isn't everything & many people who have lived in these areas their whole lives are content/happy
Yeah salute to dipset lol
I really like watching videos like this, especially about old America
And there’s plenty of cities in America that are of the opposite of this. That looked great in 89 and now look like Harlem did in 89
I was 20 years old back in 1989. I was a college student upstate New York @ the State University Of New York College at Oswego. I recall very vividly how the city looked back then. I’d say 3/4 of the city was like this. Not just Harlem. Glad to see things got better
Agree!!!
It’s just as bad now. Most of the buildings are sitting vacant, give it time and they’ll crumble again. Some people just can’t keep things nice.
@@smelltheglove2038 What in sandpiper are you talking about? Your comment is rubbish.
@@smelltheglove2038
You must be from a different Manhattan than the one in NYC
LMAO, What a Liar!!!!
"its like a Jungle sometimes it makes me wander how I keep from going under"
Grandmaster flash and the furious 5 the message. Definitely the song for this video
I like it !!! Kiss from France !!
@@kmllmk1408 a return kiss 😘 from Andalucia Espanyol
The exact same thing came to my mind this looks like the video for white lines lol
I always understood the lyrics of "The Message" but until I watched this video I never realized how grimy their conditions were. "The Message" is the perfect summation of their times and situations.
@@kendallrhodes The Furious Five were from the Bronx in the late 70's. Look at footage of that place. Makes 89 Harlem look like Switzerland.
This is wild to look at. I lived in NYC in 1989 and it’s like I totally forgot Harlem used to look like this. I definitely avoided certain areas and stuck to more “established” areas of Harlem if I went there, but you still had to be careful. You go down the wrong block and you could find yourself in serious trouble.
Why I always LOL at people saying NYC is worst now than it was in the '80s and 90's .. people really don't have a clue of how bad it was in the '70s, 80s and early '90s
These kind of videos are literally time capsules. So thankful for them
Do you know how much money the person recording had to have, to be recording with a camera AND have a beeper/pager in 1989?😱🤑
Right! Charlie was that boi 🤣🤣😂🔥
Get a union job and you too can afford nice things!
Nah this dude is the Feds been watching y'all since 89 n*$$@
@@gregorypearsall3626 🤣🤣🤣🤣
Sources say camera was robbed from news company and sold for $10 worth of crack 👏
Excelente documental me recuerda esos tiempos...
and this was at that time and still is, richest city in the world, in the richest country in the world. We were moving pretty slowly, starting from industrial revolution, even in 1989 global economy and accumulated wealth and overal development was pretty low. People in comment section are saying that most of the city look like this, we're not talking about few random streets. Comparing to today, changes are vast and are only accelerating each year.
I live in Harlem now.
This video is amazing at showing the transformation of the neighborhood.
Can you do a video of the same area now. It would be nice to see.
I now see the video till the end.
The Solution? Gentrification.
@@davidchevez4690 absolutely best thing that happened to Harlem. I wouldn’t have moved here if it wasn’t somewhat gentrified
Diversity:
A 18 year old back then would be 50 years old today. If he made it
Right
Yea! A bunch of us survived. 👑
Yes! I am one of those 18 year olds who is 50 (actually 54) today. What makes me a bit upset about this is although it was rough, not all blocks looked like this. Mine didn't. It wasn't pristine either, but not like this video. Same for my Aunt's block, my scout leader's, my church and my school's block. Yes there were too many like these, but it was not the whole story by a long shot.
No you're off by 10 years
I was 15 back then but lived in California.
I visited NYC in 1992 for the first time and we stayed in a youth hostel in Harlem. Our car was broken in the frist night, because my sister left her backpack in it. But as far as I can remember it was much nicer there, a little bit dirty, but not all these demolished buildings.
One thing I noticed in the video was the image quality was much higher than in previous years
When people ask me what Detroit is like I’m going say think of Harlem in the 80s.
Yup and Ohio is getting there as well, murders and homicides are skyrocketing
@@brettthomas6327 not something to take pride in, it's not a competition on who lives in a shittier area
wow thas crazy
@@MrSASTIRE actually it is haha, the higher the crime rate is in your city. the cooler it makes you look
Or the Bronx in the early 1980s.
Unbelievable what drugs can do not only with humans but also with an entire city 😱
Who made the crack- the suckers with the badges and the blue jackets
Blame Reagan for using the government to sling product
@@publicserviceannouncement4915 this is a blatant lie
The drug crack did not do that to the city. This was happening across the U.S. because the rich educated affluent people left big dense cities and instead moved to the suburbs. It started in the 50’s and 60’s. The people not rich enough to move out inhabited dilapidated cities
@@jacksonbear1 u can blame the ass holes running the city at the time, Koch and then Dinkins and now the SCHMUCK DeBlasio.
Времена, когда Союз был целым, снег был белым и наши люди не знали что из себя представляют "штаты" и судили о них лишь по голивудским фильмам.
Charlie's dad was filming in the Bronx in 1989
I'm from Brooklyn. I first went to Harlem in the summer of 1988. I was a little kid and was just shocked and amazed. I've still never seen anywhere as "LIT" as a hot summer night in 1980's Harlem. I'm glad I have those memories.
Coney Island here. I remember walking through Harlem and the Bronx and it looked like bombed out WWII Germany. No life or sense of hope. Gentrification has does wonders, but at what expense ?
@@ignaciopullum9891 I agree. Gentrification is going to be harder to come to the Bronx but it may happen
@@ignaciopullum9891 expense? What harm has it caused when the alternative is known? Property, especially in high tax high regulation NYC is very expensive. No capital, no upkeep. If landlords can't make money, they burn the place like 1980's Harlem. Only other way to reduce rents is cut the absurd Property taxes but we both know that will never happen.
Washington Heights in 1988 was even worse and lit was an understatement, especially at night. Almost every street east of Broadway was filled with Jehri curl haired hicks with no socks selling cocaine and crack.
@@ignaciopullum9891 I've been in the Bronx for almost 30 years after living in Inwood for 18 years. Yes, a lot of the Bronx was burned out. But a lot of it wasn't, like where I live now.
Gentrification has its good side and bad side. I don't worry about gentrifiers coming to my neighborhood. It's too far from "the city" (as they call it) and they wouldn't like the Italian/Albanian vibe in the neighborood. Which I'm good with.
This is the NY I remember. My family took a trip there once in the mid 1980s and we accidentally drove through some of the bad parts and it looked just like this.
This was how it looked in my neighborhood growing up in pittsburgh at that time. When the steel industry went under, alot of people hit real hard times.
Я гулял. Я в Америке первый раз. Я же не знаю, что у вас не везде можно ходить.
У нас вот везде можно.
Я на метро ехал, увидел в окошко красивые дома, вышел.
Около бара какого-то они начали приставать.
Harlem, The South Bronx, Brownsville Brooklyn and the Lower East Side all looked like war zones in the 70's through the 80's.. As messed up as certain parts of the city was it was still magical in a lot of ways.
Facts!!!!!
Because the children of Israel is the Salt of the earth despite the conditions.....Israelites were in these neighborhoods. We are in the hands of our enemies down bad.
@@thedarkage187 shut tf up
@@ebiz2085 That's the reason people like you were in that building that fell and crush those people down in Miami over 100 people gone Mn Wmn and children and I wont feel sorry for you when you're demise come.
@@thedarkage187 Remember what happened to Miriam and Aaron in the Bible when they were prejudice?
Notice nobody looking down at phones or anything back in the 80's this is crazy... great video my guy keep it up...
Cuz nobody had phones df💀
Nah they just on pagers and pay phones
Yup, back then people had real lives to live. It's sad what today has become.
@@Tommyr so niggas don’t have real lives cuz of phones? Ok den throw yo phone always shawdy💀
@@Tommyr Everybody still has a real life to live, besides it is natural for civilizations to advance and better their technology. You must be a very pessimistic person to have that kind of mindset that people today don’t live “real lives” in fact I don’t think you have a “real life” yourself. Happy Mother’s Day you boomer !
there is something so charming about old cars...
Danke! 😊
Crazy to think that this was only 30 years ago!
Only?
32 years ago
@@makeenhodge8800
That’s only three decades.
A lifetime ago it feels
@@DialloMoore503 4 decade actually
My aunt lived in Manhattan in the 1980s. I remember going with my parents to visit her a few times. All of NY was pretty bad. You'd pass by burnt out cars on Wall St. and police investigating a murder scene in the middle of the day a couple of blocks from the WTC. Central Park was pretty bad during the day. At night it was pretty much a no-go area.
Thanks to the 1990s, Giuliani cleared all the trash off the streets.
@@astheworldburns3590 Because you were the guy everybody was afraid of, gangsta.
ruclips.net/video/S_Dh1NNRixU/видео.html this was Harlem before the drug epidemic
And its still like that today.
@@desmo78 no
I am german. I was in 1997 in New York. I visit this City except Harlem and Bronx. I Don't know but I think this time was better than in this Video. Many greets❤
damn man how long you been doing this?
Back in the days you couldn't give those buildings away, now they're worth millions multimillions of dollars. Each one you see now.
@Winner Takes Awll wow, you teaching somebody something. Read between the lines of what I said.
Gentrification!!!! Plain and simple!!😑😑
I wonder why ,getting rid of the drug gangs bringing in the civilised ,always helps
@@omardelmar 🤡👈
Imagine the guy/girl who bought a couple of buildings in this era is sitting on a goldmine if he or she hasn't sold them.
My cousin from Ohio went into real estate with two friends early 90's in Harlem. They bought burned out or run down buildings for almost nothing. Paid the property tax/insurance and just let them sit as is for about ten years, sold them off and made a damn fortune. Wish I had taken the gamble with them but I was too impatient.
Any idea if people doing in Detroit or is it too late now?? I wonder what city looks Iike this now?
Guess that’s why there’s a housing crisis, people buying property but not letting it be used for housing
@@driveruwsThese apartment buildings have to have been a once in a century investment; there are no global financial markets headquartered in Detroit.
yup that's part of the problem, real estate speculators buying properties and letting them sit dilapidated. it's a shame but i'm not gonna lie and say i wouldn't do that same if i could make money that way.
But property in north Philly
I used to work on the 10th Street back in 1989 and lived in Harlem too. Good memories. Peaceful neighborhood...
if you could edit a side-by-side it would be amazing
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5:23 For you young folks here, that’s what we call a pay phone. This is a device that we had to insert quarters, nickels, or dimes into so we could communicate with each other when we were away from home.
As someone who had grown up in the second half of the 2000's I remember pay phones would be by bus stops, gas stations, and by the McDonald's along with those newspaper stands. Now they are just graffiti'd structures with no phone attached. They started to disappear in the 2010's
Or collect if you couldn’t get a quarter
They were around until like… I believe the early 2010s, but I remember them being all around NYC
Lmao! I remember thinking I was sooooo cool when I got my first pager and having to find a payphone to return a page🤣😎😂
90s baby 2000 kid...1991 was my year
I grew up in queens in the 80s. Finally moved when I was 12 in 89.
Imagine moving from this to a small town of about 5,000 population in the middle of South Carolina 😆 talk about a culture shock.
You ever go back to NY ?
@@NinoG053 yes. And it seemed like an extremely over populated , extremely cramped living situation for everyone there. No way would I ever live there again. Even if u paid me.
I moved from rural NJ to rural PA when I was about 15, and even then.. there was some element of culture shock. So, I can only imagine what you experienced was like day N night.
Wow having lived in Ny and Philly I know im in a small town on the west coast but South Carolina is different
@@NinoG053 haven't been to that state been stuck for awhile,hopefully sometime before I die again I'll see more of the world
Bronx looks like Germany after the war
Спасибо.очень интересно.но было бы лучше если ехать по тем же улицам где снимали 1989 году.привет из Харькова
I was 17 years old in 1989. It's amazing how quickly the time has passed by....!!
Damn
so ur only 51 its crazy to me I would think ya ass like 70-80 hearing u was almost 20 in 1989 lol but your still young god bless.
Damn bcth u old
props for surviving
Can I take you out for lunch n you tell me your crazy stories
Who ever was recording this at that time must of had a mighty big VHS camcorder that looked like a spaceship
He had it concealed in an oversized novelty cowboy hat.
I had one, you had to put it on your shoulder to film
Looks more as S 8mm Kodak film. Think, this alarm in background may be sign that roll go to the end, you can still make 2:30 min with one roll and 25 fps
Yeah it does seem a lot of people stare so assuming the camera is notable
Lol
Can't even get a good video of aliens on an I phone but this guys done this before even the first Nokia came out 😅