Was born in 81 but remember the 80s very well. I remember being 4yrs old waking up to breakfast hearing my mom playing Whitney Houston & Anita Baker albums.
7-5-81..#the 81 CREW...whats good fams all around..yes i also remember 88 in NYC..NYC was.NYC what can we say..it was real and poppin city..i miss those times
I was born in 91 so I didn’t have this experience but in the 90’s. My dad use to be a cab driver back in the 70’s and 80’s and looking at these videos I wonder if he was in any of those taxi cabs . He passed away in 2017 . God , how I miss him and those days 😭🥀 New York loved my father and my father loved New York.
The 90s weren't all that different except for the music. Cell phones and smartphones is what really revolutionized society, and obviously not always in a good way.
@@gato7908 The 90s were very different than today ... people actually talked to one another, not texted. People actually went outside and lived life in real life, not online.
Really?, I think of Wall Street especially if it’s the late 1980s. It came out in 1987 so it makes me think of it so. But you’re right movies come to mind looking at NYC.😉👍
This was really fun to watch. I am 50 years old and have lived on the west side of mid town Manhattan since 1987. SO much of this is familiar and it's really interesting to see how much has changed. Especially loved the footage of the building of the Worldwide Plaza building at 1:13 and the neon sign advertising TDK audio and video cassettes at 6:04. Wow, they were once cutting edge! Thank you for posting. One of the great things about RUclips!
@@BigBadJerryRogers Imagine 30 years from now for example 2050! i wonder if the future generation will wish to come back to the filthy years of 2020, 2021 and 2022. Nothing could be missed from the era of covid 19 & war in Ukraine and not to mention the horrible inflation facing America and the world !
i was blown away seeing NY for the first time in 92 as a college student, no cell phones, less people, the cabs seemed huge. it was gritty, and real. I went again in 2017 and Time Sq was just a huge Disney commercial full of tourists and vendors. And you still cant get free wifi.. i was thinking "good. actually see the city, not record it".
I was only 7 years old in '88 but I grew up in NYC and this is the closest thing I can get to time travel. My dad worked downtown and would take me all around the city. This video has real sentimental value for me. Thank you.
Wow great memories of the city at this time. I lived right in the middle of it, in my mid 20s and loved every second of it. Now new york is nothing like this.. this was the real NYC.
You are right Iridium242 This brings back a lot of memories. Like at 6:38 I see the old Nathan's I worked there on the weekends for a little while. And at that time they only had the Two stores the one on 43rd St & Broadway and the main store at Coney Island.
Alex Rodriguez and somehow we all managed to survive back then. Now its a shell of its former self. Sad to see what nanny Bloomberg did to that city New York has become dell and dead with nothing but sterile busybody drones who hate having fun and would rather have Manhattan look like Disneyworld for adults
They turned the place into Disneyland and made it a tourist hotspot. New York then and now were so different. I was born in 1981 and raised in New York so I don't remember '80s New York that well, but asides from a few neighborhoods, I believe everywhere else in New York weren't really livable. Fortunately, I grew up in Upper West Side so I wasn't exposed to much of this gritty atmosphere but I did meet lots of kids growing up in conditions that were worse than mine. In general, I feel ambivalent about the gentrification of NYC and whether the old or new NYC is better.
Alex Rodriguez Whereabouts did you grow up? It's really hard to believe that New York, once a criminal haven, is now one of the safest cities in America. Despite the high crime rates, I liked growing up in Upper West Side. My dad told me never to go to the subway at night and never to wonder around outside at night alone. He also told me that I should generally avoid going to other neighborhoods asides from Upper East and West Side and Central Park. I still visited other neighborhoods with a friend and saw how shitty the living conditions of some kids were compared to mine. Nevertheless, I made friends with lots of kids, both rich and poor. Well despite the gritty atmosphere of New York, I still had a normal but awesome childhood like any other kid at that time. Had fun growing up in the 80s and 90s, living with Reagan and Clinton as presidents were great times.
I was born in 1985, but that's a decade too late. I wish I was an 70s kid so I could experience the 80s in my teens in NYC. What an amazing city! this was the real NYC
It was amazing then. I feel bad for people who could not experience it live because you are right on. A great city but back then it was even greater. The essence of NYC has been eroding for the last 20 yrs.
I was born in '75. I lived on the east end of Long Island. My dad worked for the railroad at Jamaica station in Queens. my sister and I would take the train in with him on weekends and go to Rockefeller Center during the holidays. I miss those days. Real New York City magic.
I wasn't born until 1995 but I find footage like this fascinating. I know a bit about 80's pop culture from film or music etc, but videos like this show me the "real" experience
I was born on November 4, 1988 in Manhattan so this video is about as close to the very first scenes I ever saw as I can get... and yes, this was definitely 1988, given that you see the sign for the Marathon that did take place on November 6, the very first Sunday I ever lived.
Thank you for this. My first visit to the Big Apple was in September 1988 and this us just as I remember it. I stayed in a youth hostel just off Times Square. Very noisy! I think it went quiet girl an hour about 4am then the morning noise began. Great memories.
I came to the big apple in September 1989 for the first time in my life and i was 13 years old. I truly liked it but the stories of high crime rates were bit scary. I came again in 2013 and i realized that the city was much cleaner & more organized and lot safer ! If i have the chance to come again i would definitely wont hesitate for a minute ! I never get bored while walking at fifth avenue or central park !
There were Checker Cabs in service when this video was shot. There were 10 checker cabs in service in 1993 (according to the NYT). The last Checker Cab ran in service on July 26, 1999.
I Dunno Weren’t they already worth a lot back then? It’s still NYC we’re talking about. Cities are always more expensive to live in than the countryside.
Without a doubt 1988 is my favorite year. It's no wonder I'll watch or listen to anything from 88. I might even get myself a classic NES to relive those times.
This is pretty much around the time me and my father used to go downtown from the Bronx whenever he had a lot of money to spare. We used to go to Times Square a few times a year during the weekend and go to the movies (usually a grindhouse with a good double feature) and hang out at the Playland Arcade. It was much dirtier and more dangerous than it is now, but it was also a lot more fun and vibrant. I still go around there about once every month on my own to do some shopping, but it's definitely not the same as it was at that time. I miss those days. Thanks for the nostalgia.
51 years old so I was lucky to experience and see all this, the nightclubs especially in NYC and Times Square with that hint of danger, what a glorious time that was miss it tremendously, now it's pitiful 🤦♂️send me back in time and I'll stay there 1988 permanently!
I grew up in New York City during the 80’s, and hands down it was and it would ever be the best decade. Back them we didn’t have to worried about shootings or guns. But what I remembered the most is that New York City had the best dance clubs period; even the radio station from this decade played the best music. Clubs like Paradise Garage, the Loft, the Red Zone, Sound Factory, The Palladium, Roxy, Roseland, Limelight, SOB’s, Club Shelter, the Tunnel, even the Latin clubs playing the best Salsa and Merengue were legendary. It was so romantic to asked a lady out that you liked or were interested in to the dance floor. This generation doesn’t have a clue what great music is, or worst they don’t have a clue on how to socialize or be social to their fellow human being. We were so connected to each other. God! How much I missed those times!!
You're right! I loved hitting the Loft every Saturday night, the Limelight, Palladium, and the Latin clubs for salsa, what were they called? The Corso? The Copacabana? Saw all the greatest Latin artists, and moved to the beat along with 30,000 other fans at the Fania Allstars concerts in Madison Square Garden in the seventies...1976 in particular!
Norbert Janz I’m not saying technology doesn’t have its perks, but walk down the street or take a ride on the train and 95 percent of people are on their phones. No one bothers to even interact with each other. People are even turning to apps just to date. No one stops to appreciate the simple things anymore.
I lived in Manhattan for several years starting in 1989, so I miss all the scenery this video shows. Fire sirens, cab horns.... Yes, it was still "Pan Am Building" back then.
I'd go back to the 80s but for the problems no one remembers anymore. Garbage strikes, crack epidemic, subway deterioration, I could go on. heh, the less you know the better. The people were always great, in any era, that's what really makes NYC the place to be.
1:20 - Always wanted to record this, and here you are. This building, One Worldwide Plaza, was built on the site of the old Madison Square Garden (pre-1966). Also, always thought it was cheaply built - and it was.
I'm still around. I was 18 in 1988. I'm 48 now even though I look a lot younger. But you're probably right. Most of those people in the video probably moved out of The Big Apple.
@@craigsmith157 I am from Beirut, Lebanon. New York city will remain part of my soul for reason i truly dont know why. I visited this city in 1989 when i was 12. Then i came again in 2013 and 2014 and i found it changed for the best as streets and subways became cleaner especially Pennsylvania station. Also it became much safer. I believe that Rudolf Guliani was a magician lol. Good luck for NYC
No, not really. There were enough pay phones if you needed to make an important call and you didn't have to take nonsense phone calls or carry around a cell phone.
Miss these times love the old tads steak houses the record stores and the clubs scene this was when New York was hopping everything was just free minded no internet controlling lives wish I could go back!!!
Having been raised in the Boston area, NYC was nearby and such a fun city. This footage reminds of how it looked during the 80s when my friends and I would spend long weekends there. We always had a blast.
This was before I was born. I was born in 1989. I moved to NYC from Chicago and been living here for 13 years. I would love to transport myself to the late 80s and mid 90s to experience NYC during those times. It would be great living without social media, smartphones, and bad politics.
Ahhh the New York i remember 😁 early 20's, the night life in the city was fun and gloriously insane. There LITERALLY was something for everybody. Good and bad LMAO
.... back when the city had heart and soul.... and definitely before the rise of SUV's and cell phones and other gadgets.... Back when I was nineteen (19) and alive !!!
Exactly. The perfect phrase I'm gonna use from now on. Dull Hipster Disneyland. You should copyright it, I'll buy the first tee and hoodie. So fucking sad. My city is dead.
Ah..what a breath of fresh. No one had lousy stinking baby rattles, call hand held devices. oh me on my, there was life before hand held devices. Incredible. Just incredible.
I worked in Manhattan in August 1988 while living in Midwood, and made many trips from Philadelphia to the Manhattan Chess club for tournaments, round trip on Amtrak, sometimes same day (sometimes SEPTA-NJT to save money). Fun time to be there.
The best year of my life. I'm 51, and at 22 I was in love with the one girl who's breakup later in 1990, caused me great heartbreak. Our best times were dining and going into NYC 1988-90), but espec 88 since it was the first real love I ever had. We were both living in separate towns in the NJ suburbs when we met at a bar in NJ near the GW bridge area. Every other breakup I ever had before, and many more since, was usually met with relief for me. Not with A.M ( her initials). I'm sure she never thinks of me any more, but even though I am happy now with my girlfriend (never married), I still think of her at least once a week. Silly I know!
The year we moved to NYC :) The year I started first grade at PS 158, had my first ever NY slice and bought my first comic book. Havent been back since 1999 January, so when I dream this is still pretty much what it looks like. Almost too scared to go back in fear of realizing it doesn’t exist anymore.
I remember to the tv serie "the beauty and the beast" with Linda Hamilton and Ron Perlman i guess...the streets and the noise. I wanna back to the 80s !!!
That building going up at 8:50 (8th & west 51st) that was when it all started to really change, lots for the better, but something was lost too. I’m watching and mourning my youth
As a former New Yorker, I could relate to the good times back in the day. Unfortunately, New York has changed. I made the best move and got out of New York, and went to Pennsylvania nothing like living the in rural, USA. Beautiful wildlife, no noise endless beauty
Yeah I was 18 --- Just moved to NYC in September of 87 after I got expelled from high school. My Mom kicked me out and sent me to live with my Dad in NYC. I remember taking NJ transit to the Path train to Chambers street at like midnight and walking under the Brooklyn Bridge at 1 am by myself at age 17 to St James place where my father lived at the time Lots of out of towners would probably be nervous doing that. Lived at 13th and 8th , 38th and Lex and 80th and Amsterdam over the next 6 years. Back in Jersey since 93 sadly. Miss living in NYC. I used to work at 6 WTC also in 89. Now long gone :(
Yeah my father got remarried and then I moved back home with her and her new boyfriend who liked me. We get along. She will be 68 in December and I am 46 now. Wish I was young again.
Y2Jin99 Cool. I was 15 in 88 and remember the times well. I can't imagine being in NYC though during that time though. I know what you mean though. Kids these days have so much access to information via the internet, I do wish I was 20 or 21 now. What's your most vivid memory of being in NYC in the late 80's as a teen?
Wow... 1988 was the last time I've been to New York and that's exactly how I remember it. What an incredible city New York was in the 80s... New York has been thru so much in the last 20 years up until today. America has witnessed New York's strength and resilience.
I was born in 1990 and I remember thing from when I was two years old I miss the old scenery nd how things look back then the70s up to the 90s era is the best era in NYC history so rich I history and culture and uniqueness
Awesome blast from the past!I was a teen in the 80’s and me and my Dad would take the train from Ct. every year at Christmas time to shop.I remember how seedy it was,hustlers doing 3 card Monty on every corner.I miss those days.Now it’s a bunch of yuppies on their phones.
I visited New York City, 9 months before this video was taken. Judging by the ads and other things, in this video, it seemed to be Late October. Nice to see the City, mostly as I saw it.
The 80's was a great time. The Crack Epidemic made crime rate shoot up. Other than that, it was a great decade. The cell phones, computers and the internet that we stay in touch with today belong to entrepreneurs of the 80s. The music and movies were outstanding also. I don't believe the feeling of patriotism that the nation had during the 80s will ever be experienced again. It was just a great decade to be a teenager and young adult. Just my personal opinion...
as someone who wasn't born in the 80s i see no reason why it is viewed as great, my country was war torn in the 80s and it would have been filled with boredom, TV was pretty poor so chances are you would just spend all your time in a bar as there wouldn't have been much else to do
the 80s was shit 😂😂 guys dressed like girls (leather pants, make up and curly hair) everyone was on drugs trying to prove theyre billy bad ass and the music sucked. I love everything about being a millennial
Skinny jeans? Have you actually ever seen the jeans guys wore in the 80s? Especially the guys that were considered cool? Them jeans were TIGHT and had a high waist. Men's butts were nicely contoured. Believe me, as a hetero girl back then I had a field day with ogling at good-looking guys in 80s jeans - especially the ones with long, often permed hair, which was also common. =D
Let me say, I am not a homo sexual, but in the 80s the men's hair was gorgeous. Some of the time from the back you couldn't tell which was the girl or the guys. Especially when they both had on blue jeans and dungaree jackets.
Was born in 81 but remember the 80s very well. I remember being 4yrs old waking up to breakfast hearing my mom playing Whitney Houston & Anita Baker albums.
Simpler times !! Audio and Video cassettes were the thing .
I was also born in 1981 .
‘81 baby too! And I remember everything about the 80’s also. Was really young but fun times!
81 baby too. Remember 8years old hanging out at my great grandmother house in Brooklyn and my dad playing micheal McDonald in the CAR. LOL no joke
7-5-81..#the 81 CREW...whats good fams all around..yes i also remember 88 in NYC..NYC was.NYC what can we say..it was real and poppin city..i miss those times
I was born in 91 so I didn’t have this experience but in the 90’s. My dad use to be a cab driver back in the 70’s and 80’s and looking at these videos I wonder if he was in any of those taxi cabs . He passed away in 2017 . God , how I miss him and those days 😭🥀 New York loved my father and my father loved New York.
Rest in piece😥
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The 90s weren't all that different except for the music. Cell phones and smartphones is what really revolutionized society, and obviously not always in a good way.
@@gato7908
The 90s were very different than today ... people actually talked to one another, not texted.
People actually went outside and lived life in real life, not online.
You ain’t no ‘goddess’
I was 14 in 1988 and a Freshman at Erasmus Hall High School in Brooklyn. I use to take the train to Manhattan almost all the time. Thanks for posting
And you lived? Were you raped? Shot, stabbed, mugged
I always think of Ghostbusters whenever I see '80s New York.
I always think of 'Coming to America' with Eddie Murphy.
SevenFoot Pelican hell yeah coming to America
I always think of “The Muppets” when I see New York City in the 1980s
Really?, I think of Wall Street especially if it’s the late 1980s. It came out in 1987 so it makes me think of it so. But you’re right movies come to mind looking at NYC.😉👍
OHHHHHHHHH HELL NOOOOOOOOO
If i had a time machine i would defiantly go back to the 1980s
+simmsr801 please do
+skylander please give me all your money and house , and leave now
why
I would go to the 50s. What a simple time.
it is usually young people who say this but you need to realise that adults lives back them were just as stressful and grim as they are now
This is the New York of my childhood that I remember and I thought it was great. This brought tears to my eyes. Thanks so much!
This was really fun to watch. I am 50 years old and have lived on the west side of mid town Manhattan since 1987. SO much of this is familiar and it's really interesting to see how much has changed. Especially loved the footage of the building of the Worldwide Plaza building at 1:13 and the neon sign advertising TDK audio and video cassettes at 6:04. Wow, they were once cutting edge! Thank you for posting. One of the great things about RUclips!
And you felt safe
There was a high crime rate in New York during the 1980's. Hope it is less now. Hope you didnt personally witnessed any crime
Im 51 in Tennessee and always wanted to go to NY
It really is like time traveling, will always fascinate me tremendously.
Please bring back the 80s and 90s please.
Ok
It's over! You can forget it! Now close this window and go back to watching Jake Paul do something stupid and listen to some Cardi B.
It lives within us my friend. Transcend it!
@@BigBadJerryRogers Imagine 30 years from now for example 2050! i wonder if the future generation will wish to come back to the filthy years of 2020, 2021 and 2022. Nothing could be missed from the era of covid 19 & war in Ukraine and not to mention the horrible inflation facing America and the world !
@@BigBadJerryRogersyou are awful.
I always wonder if someone in the video just happens to watch this and shits their pants when they spot themselves. How epic would that be?
Y2Jin99 IKR
you're funny
I was thinking the same thing!
Y2Jin99 “Look up a video titled New York City in 1993 in HD” Check the first comment, then fast forward to the 0:58 mark..
I'm the lady in the white hair and blue jacket sonny. 👵 2:41
ah the good old nyc. 5th avenue looks so much better than today's. no starbucks, real deal coffee shop.
Yes Im born & Raised New Yorker!
I miss high crime and crack wars
That 80s/90s NYC glamour was gone with The World Trade Center...
I don't recognize the skyline I grew up with. Real New York is gone.
american here, you remember what nyc 2000 was like or
God I wish I could go back to 1988
Me too but I was born in 1997
@@andybrar3599 that´s too bad..
@@Bates1960 okeh but OKEH!
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@@andybrar3599 born in 91 ..In Brooklyn,NY
This guy is a time traveler! He literally captured everything he knew us people today would love to see😊
I love the 80's wish I could visit those days.
i was blown away seeing NY for the first time in 92 as a college student, no cell phones, less people, the cabs seemed huge. it was gritty, and real. I went again in 2017 and Time Sq was just a huge Disney commercial full of tourists and vendors. And you still cant get free wifi.. i was thinking "good. actually see the city, not record it".
I was only 7 years old in '88 but I grew up in NYC and this is the closest thing I can get to time travel. My dad worked downtown and would take me all around the city. This video has real sentimental value for me. Thank you.
I was also 7 that year too.
I miss all those Boxy Chevy Caprice Cabs.
qwandiddy Now it’s replaced with ugly looking Chinese-Imported cars
I think the first of the 1998-2012 Crown Vics replaced the last of the box-shaped vehicles.
Air Aero The only chinese made cars in America come from GM
Jesse Powell those were around until 1996, not 1997
Wow great memories of the city at this time. I lived right in the middle of it, in my mid 20s and loved every second of it. Now new york is nothing like this.. this was the real NYC.
NYC today looks like and sounds like every bit of this film.
Maybe MORE trashed and crowded is all.
You are right Iridium242 This brings back a lot of memories. Like at 6:38 I see the old Nathan's I worked there on the weekends for a little while. And at that time they only had the Two stores the one on 43rd St & Broadway and the main
store at Coney Island.
Alex Rodriguez and somehow we all managed to survive back then. Now its a shell of its former self. Sad to see what nanny Bloomberg did to that city
New York has become dell and dead with nothing but sterile busybody drones who hate having fun and would rather have Manhattan look like Disneyworld for adults
They turned the place into Disneyland and made it a tourist hotspot. New York then and now were so different. I was born in 1981 and raised in New York so I don't remember '80s New York that well, but asides from a few neighborhoods, I believe everywhere else in New York weren't really livable. Fortunately, I grew up in Upper West Side so I wasn't exposed to much of this gritty atmosphere but I did meet lots of kids growing up in conditions that were worse than mine. In general, I feel ambivalent about the gentrification of NYC and whether the old or new NYC is better.
Alex Rodriguez Whereabouts did you grow up? It's really hard to believe that New York, once a criminal haven, is now one of the safest cities in America. Despite the high crime rates, I liked growing up in Upper West Side.
My dad told me never to go to the subway at night and never to wonder around outside at night alone. He also told me that I should generally avoid going to other neighborhoods asides from Upper East and West Side and Central Park. I still visited other neighborhoods with a friend and saw how shitty the living conditions of some kids were compared to mine. Nevertheless, I made friends with lots of kids, both rich and poor.
Well despite the gritty atmosphere of New York, I still had a normal but awesome childhood like any other kid at that time. Had fun growing up in the 80s and 90s, living with Reagan and Clinton as presidents were great times.
I was born in 1985, but that's a decade too late. I wish I was an 70s kid so I could experience the 80s in my teens in NYC. What an amazing city! this was the real NYC
It was amazing then. I feel bad for people who could not experience it live because you are right on. A great city but back then it was even greater. The essence of NYC has been eroding for the last 20 yrs.
I was born in '75. I lived on the east end of Long Island. My dad worked for the railroad at Jamaica station in Queens. my sister and I would take the train in with him on weekends and go to Rockefeller Center during the holidays. I miss those days. Real New York City magic.
born in 1979, but yet great memories from the 80 's
"The essence of NYC has been eroding for the last 20 yrs."
You can thank Rudy Giuliani for that.
@@pdottie212fu I'm born in 1/8/1985 Tuesday. And I didn't start school till 1990. Ain't no way you went to school at four years ago 😂
I wasn't born until 1995 but I find footage like this fascinating. I know a bit about 80's pop culture from film or music etc, but videos like this show me the "real" experience
I was born in 80 ' and never have been in U. S - but I love this old time and I think it was a very good time! P.S . Thanks for this video...
I was born on November 4, 1988 in Manhattan so this video is about as close to the very first scenes I ever saw as I can get... and yes, this was definitely 1988, given that you see the sign for the Marathon that did take place on November 6, the very first Sunday I ever lived.
If you were born in 1988, then you do not remember. Your memories begin in 1990.
Well of course. But she saw. See - remember...SEE - Reeemeeember.
Never mind, they mention the ship capsizing as a result of Typhoon Ruby, placing the date of this video as October 24, 1988. Not born yet.
The NYC of 1988 is the one I remember like it were only yesterday. I love this video.
I miss this NYC! Neon, flashing lights! Neighborhoods not shopping malls!
mickey mouse telephone!
I was 13 years old. I never realized how much has changed, especially the cars.
Cars were better looking then.
Michael Farrington Exactly! I don't understand how cars got to be so round. They can still be "aerodynamic" if they have corners!
***** I agree! Cars look so crappy now.
Sir Crap-a-lot cars do look great still you probably miss them old cadilacs
BananaPhoPhilly The 1982 Lincoln continental!
Thank you for this. My first visit to the Big Apple was in September 1988 and this us just as I remember it. I stayed in a youth hostel just off Times Square. Very noisy! I think it went quiet girl an hour about 4am then the morning noise began. Great memories.
I came to the big apple in September 1989 for the first time in my life and i was 13 years old. I truly liked it but the stories of high crime rates were bit scary. I came again in 2013 and i realized that the city was much cleaner & more organized and lot safer ! If i have the chance to come again i would definitely wont hesitate for a minute ! I never get bored while walking at fifth avenue or central park !
damn the 80s looked so chill . my mom met my father in 88'... and i was conceived two years later .. shout out to 88'
No cell zombie $icko$
Spotted zero Checker Taxi's... one of the most iconic NYC taxi of all time.
Pretty sure the actual Checker Cab company went out of business by the mid 80s. Could be wrong.
what about chevy caprice and ford crown victoria ?
they were gone by 1983!
Guiliani brought them back in 1996. slowly i guess they are going to the midwest and there are a bunch of those cabs in FL now.
There were Checker Cabs in service when this video was shot. There were 10 checker cabs in service in 1993 (according to the NYT). The last Checker Cab ran in service on July 26, 1999.
I bet those apartments are worth a fortune now.
I Dunno Yah, and remodeled out of all resemblance to what they were.
I Dunno I’ll bet they are all gone!
@@garychiappa3676 I lived there in the 90's and work in the area now. You're right, most of those older buildings are gone, especially on 8th Avenue.
@@garychiappa3676 .. ..it wasn't that long ago for all the people to be gone.
I Dunno Weren’t they already worth a lot back then? It’s still NYC we’re talking about. Cities are always more expensive to live in than the countryside.
Without a doubt 1988 is my favorite year. It's no wonder I'll watch or listen to anything from 88. I might even get myself a classic NES to relive those times.
I wish I had a time machine. I'd love to visit so many different places during different time periods.
High school years for me during this time, and I also worked as a messenger in midtown after school. Great times. Old New York City...the best!
I remember this time in new york like it was yesterday... some great memories have come flooding back!! thanks.
This is pretty much around the time me and my father used to go downtown from the Bronx whenever he had a lot of money to spare. We used to go to Times Square a few times a year during the weekend and go to the movies (usually a grindhouse with a good double feature) and hang out at the Playland Arcade. It was much dirtier and more dangerous than it is now, but it was also a lot more fun and vibrant. I still go around there about once every month on my own to do some shopping, but it's definitely not the same as it was at that time. I miss those days. Thanks for the nostalgia.
Bring back the 80's please
2000's sucks like hell !
Four years before my first visit and video! Nice!
Lived in NYC from 84-97. Lived in Park Slope, Brooklyn and worked in Manhattan everyday. I will always love NY
51 years old so I was lucky to experience and see all this, the nightclubs especially in NYC and Times Square with that hint of danger, what a glorious time that was miss it tremendously, now it's pitiful 🤦♂️send me back in time and I'll stay there 1988 permanently!
Makes me think of movie Big which came out in 1988.
Great film
a good film by a shitty director
Great picture
Nostalgia is great in this video, but you couldn't pay me enough money to live there.
I grew up in New York City during the 80’s, and hands down it was and it would ever be the best decade. Back them we didn’t have to worried about shootings or guns. But what I remembered the most is that New York City had the best dance clubs period; even the radio station from this decade played the best music. Clubs like Paradise Garage, the Loft, the Red Zone, Sound Factory, The Palladium, Roxy, Roseland, Limelight, SOB’s, Club Shelter, the Tunnel, even the Latin clubs playing the best Salsa and Merengue were legendary. It was so romantic to asked a lady out that you liked or were interested in to the dance floor. This generation doesn’t have a clue what great music is, or worst they don’t have a clue on how to socialize or be social to their fellow human being. We were so connected to each other. God! How much I missed those times!!
You're right! I loved hitting the Loft every Saturday night, the Limelight, Palladium, and the Latin clubs for salsa, what were they called? The Corso? The Copacabana? Saw all the greatest Latin artists, and moved to the beat along with 30,000 other fans at the Fania Allstars concerts in Madison Square Garden in the seventies...1976 in particular!
I miss asking a girl out and then getting the butterfly's after
I was living there in 1988 (from New Zealand).
I was born in 1988, wish I could have grown up during that era, this generation with the lame music and social media obsession sucks 😒
Mocha18 we are both 29. We grew up in the mid 90's 00's. We had it better so I wouldn't complain.
Norbert Janz I’m not saying technology doesn’t have its perks, but walk down the street or take a ride on the train and 95 percent of people are on their phones. No one bothers to even interact with each other. People are even turning to apps just to date. No one stops to appreciate the simple things anymore.
Mocha18 __ Let me take you old school style 😉
Just joking lol
Mocha18 you say that not but depending on where you grew up New York was gritty and harsh damn near almost went bankrupt and crack ran everything
This generation is @joke⊙
This city is beautiful!
Unfortunately this is no longer true, millionaires and billionaires have made the city devoid of culture.
They should make a GTA set in 80s New York.
I totally agree.
There is a mod video and it actually looks impressive check it out
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@@christophercastillo3808 None of them is on the 80's.
I lived in Manhattan for several years starting in 1989, so I miss all the scenery this video shows. Fire sirens, cab horns.... Yes, it was still "Pan Am Building" back then.
I'd go back to the 80s but for the problems no one remembers anymore. Garbage strikes, crack epidemic, subway deterioration, I could go on. heh, the less you know the better. The people were always great, in any era, that's what really makes NYC the place to be.
NYC in '88. I was 4 years into my first job. I lived in Queens but I hung out heavy in Times Square. Good times.
1:20 - Always wanted to record this, and here you are. This building, One Worldwide Plaza, was built on the site of the old Madison Square Garden (pre-1966). Also, always thought it was cheaply built - and it was.
I love New York! It brings back memories to me!
How I miss the coffee shops on many corners of the city! All driven out by the high rents!
THIS was peak NYC right into the 90s...after 9/11 an understatement to say things changed. Love seeing the vintage fire trucks, buses, cabs, etc.
You see all those random people wondering who they are and if they're still around
+Random Person 😂😂😂😂😂😂👌
I'm still around. I was 18 in 1988. I'm 48 now even though I look a lot younger. But you're probably right. Most of those people in the video probably moved out of The Big Apple.
@@craigsmith157 I am from Beirut, Lebanon. New York city will remain part of my soul for reason i truly dont know why. I visited this city in 1989 when i was 12. Then i came again in 2013 and 2014 and i found it changed for the best as streets and subways became cleaner especially Pennsylvania station. Also it became much safer. I believe that Rudolf Guliani was a magician lol. Good luck for NYC
Yes. I do!
Thank you! Brings back great memories of better times!
Life before cell phone addiction.
nice thought man!
Must’ve sucked. The internet & cell phones are revolutionary and so is the technology that is allowing you to view this video right now.
No, not really. There were enough pay phones if you needed to make an important call and you didn't have to take nonsense phone calls or carry around a cell phone.
Only cigarette addictions, the good addiction.
More like virtual Insanity
Miss these times love the old tads steak houses the record stores and the clubs scene this was when New York was hopping everything was just free minded no internet controlling lives wish I could go back!!!
Wonderful memories. I miss living there at that time. It was fantastic. Thanks for sharing this.
I was visiting NY from London in Jan 1988. Loved it ❤
Having been raised in the Boston area, NYC was nearby and such a fun city. This footage reminds of how it looked during the 80s when my friends and I would spend long weekends there. We always had a blast.
This was before I was born. I was born in 1989. I moved to NYC from Chicago and been living here for 13 years. I would love to transport myself to the late 80s and mid 90s to experience NYC during those times. It would be great living without social media, smartphones, and bad politics.
4:55
Typhoon Ruby
The video was shot somewhere between oct 20 and oct 28th of that year
yes, Halloween decoration in Rockefeller Center
I had just turned 4 years old then on October 15!
6:01 I’ll always remember taking the train into the city with my friends and seeing that neon TDK sign. I truly miss the 1980’s.
Ahhh the New York i remember 😁 early 20's, the night life in the city was fun and gloriously insane. There LITERALLY was something for everybody. Good and bad LMAO
God bless you for filming this in the first place. Precious footage.
Yessss the good ole days. Please take me back
.... back when the city had heart and soul.... and definitely before the rise of SUV's and cell phones and other gadgets.... Back when I was nineteen (19) and alive !!!
rocketcab so you're dead? @alive
It's just when you nineteen life is a endless vista before you.
This is real nyc in this video not the dull hipster disneyland it is today
rocker1821 what? If you look at NYC today is still looks amazing... it has great taste and culture...
@@SquidCena nah I don't see it
Exactly. The perfect phrase I'm gonna use from now on. Dull Hipster Disneyland. You should copyright it, I'll buy the first tee and hoodie. So fucking sad. My city is dead.
@@SquidCena Manhattan was ALIVE. Now it's Dubuque.
Born in 95. If I believed in reincarnation I’m sure I lived a relatively short life from ~’72 to ‘93 before the life I live now.
oh how I would have loved to live in new york during this time
The last shot was like a stab in my heart: the iconic Pan Am Building.
Steve, same here. I still call it the PanAm Building, I still say the RCA Building. Christ, I still say the Allied Chemical Building. 😥
I love 80s for these beautiful American Classic Cars.
Ah..what a breath of fresh. No one had lousy stinking baby rattles, call hand held devices. oh me on my, there was life before hand held devices. Incredible. Just incredible.
So you don't use your phone to call people?
This was filmed on a hand held device...
And back before people were stupid enough to buy anything but American cars.
I worked in Manhattan in August 1988 while living in Midwood, and made many trips from Philadelphia to the Manhattan Chess club for tournaments, round trip on Amtrak, sometimes same day (sometimes SEPTA-NJT to save money). Fun time to be there.
The best year of my life. I'm 51, and at 22 I was in love with the one girl who's breakup later in 1990, caused me great heartbreak. Our best times were dining and going into NYC 1988-90), but espec 88 since it was the first real love I ever had. We were both living in separate towns in the NJ suburbs when we met at a bar in NJ near the GW bridge area. Every other breakup I ever had before, and many more since, was usually met with relief for me. Not with A.M ( her initials). I'm sure she never thinks of me any more, but even though I am happy now with my girlfriend (never married), I still think of her at least once a week. Silly I know!
The year we moved to NYC :)
The year I started first grade at PS 158, had my first ever NY slice and bought my first comic book.
Havent been back since 1999 January, so when I dream this is still pretty much what it looks like. Almost too scared to go back in fear of realizing it doesn’t exist anymore.
I remember to the tv serie "the beauty and the beast" with Linda Hamilton and Ron Perlman i guess...the streets and the noise.
I wanna back to the 80s !!!
the NYC of when I was a kid :)
New York at it's best!.
That building going up at 8:50 (8th & west 51st) that was when it all started to really change, lots for the better, but something was lost too. I’m watching and mourning my youth
Wow people actually looked up when they walk amazing wow
Good footage, it really captures the atmosphere of the time.
As a former New Yorker, I could relate to the good times back in the day. Unfortunately, New York has changed. I made the best move and got out of New York, and went to Pennsylvania nothing like living the in rural, USA. Beautiful wildlife, no noise endless beauty
Do you ever miss the city
Not one person on a Phone, Amazing!!!!
I give you a perfect 10! This Video is well appreciated. I give you a standing ovation. And many rounds of applauds.
Humbly
I would of love to be up there in the 80's
1988 is the year I moved to NYC!!! I have good memories!!! I lived at 455W47tj street between 9th & 10th Avenues. Yeah, Great memories.
say what you want about the 80s but at least nyc in the 80s had character
These are great movies, thank you. I lived in New York City in 1988. Looking for people I know.
Great.Love to watch them clips from when I was young.19 in 88 whos cares,Just saying...!
Yeah I was 18 --- Just moved to NYC in September of 87 after I got expelled from high school. My Mom kicked me out and sent me to live with my Dad in NYC. I remember taking NJ transit to the Path train to Chambers street at like midnight and walking under the Brooklyn Bridge at 1 am by myself at age 17 to St James place where my father lived at the time Lots of out of towners would probably be nervous doing that. Lived at 13th and 8th , 38th and Lex and 80th and Amsterdam over the next 6 years. Back in Jersey since 93 sadly. Miss living in NYC. I used to work at 6 WTC also in 89. Now long gone :(
Y2Jin99 how's life for you now? Do you still stay in tough with your mom?
Yeah my father got remarried and then I moved back home with her and her new boyfriend who liked me. We get along. She will be 68 in December and I am 46 now. Wish I was young again.
Y2Jin99 Cool. I was 15 in 88 and remember the times well. I can't imagine being in NYC though during that time though. I know what you mean though. Kids these days have so much access to information via the internet, I do wish I was 20 or 21 now.
What's your most vivid memory of being in NYC in the late 80's as a teen?
Damn I was only 4 in 1988.time goes so damn fast
A year before I was born. I always love getting a glimpse of what life was like before cell phones and social media
New York is a noisy city ,
but New York is a place where dreams are born
Wow...
1988 was the last time I've been to New York and that's exactly how I remember it. What an incredible city New York was in the 80s...
New York has been thru so much in the last 20 years up until today. America has witnessed New York's strength and resilience.
NYC back then was gritty and real, not sanitized and cookie-cutter like today.
I was born in 1990 and I remember thing from when I was two years old I miss the old scenery nd how things look back then the70s up to the 90s era is the best era in NYC history so rich I history and culture and uniqueness
Awesome blast from the past!I was a teen in the 80’s and me and my Dad would take the train from Ct. every year at Christmas time to shop.I remember how seedy it was,hustlers doing 3 card Monty on every corner.I miss those days.Now it’s a bunch of yuppies on their phones.
How was taking that train
I visited New York City, 9 months before this video was taken.
Judging by the ads and other things, in this video, it seemed to be Late October.
Nice to see the City, mostly as I saw it.
epic city - epic time
Awesome. 1988 was the year I first visited this great city. Thanks for sharing.
Love the old signs.
This is in late October 1998. You can tell because the news feed said Typhoon Ruby which was from Oct 20 to Oct 28 1988.
The 80's was a great time. The Crack Epidemic made crime rate shoot up. Other than that, it was a great decade. The cell phones, computers and the internet that we stay in touch with today belong to entrepreneurs of the 80s. The music and movies were outstanding also. I don't believe the feeling of patriotism that the nation had during the 80s will ever be experienced again. It was just a great decade to be a teenager and young adult. Just my personal opinion...
+loyal4 the way Manhattan is now a home for the wealthy and has lost all it's soul as a result. But besides shit music 2016 is pretty good.
as someone who wasn't born in the 80s i see no reason why it is viewed as great, my country was war torn in the 80s and it would have been filled with boredom, TV was pretty poor so chances are you would just spend all your time in a bar as there wouldn't have been much else to do
the 80s was shit 😂😂 guys dressed like girls (leather pants, make up and curly hair) everyone was on drugs trying to prove theyre billy bad ass and the music sucked. I love everything about being a millennial
Skinny jeans? Have you actually ever seen the jeans guys wore in the 80s? Especially the guys that were considered cool? Them jeans were TIGHT and had a high waist. Men's butts were nicely contoured. Believe me, as a hetero girl back then I had a field day with ogling at good-looking guys in 80s jeans - especially the ones with long, often permed hair, which was also common. =D
Let me say, I am not a homo sexual, but in the 80s the men's hair was gorgeous. Some of the time from the back you couldn't tell which was the girl or the guys. Especially when they both had on blue jeans and dungaree jackets.