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Imagine someone watching this now in their 60's and seeing themselves walking around in the video when they were like 20 years old... Man, that would blow your mind and skip a few heartbeats I bet 😆
@Zombert - They would be probably in their 50s if they were in there 20s in this film......On another note ...I could have swore I seen Alpo standing by the Jeep [5:08] .......🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
I watched a video like this but it was Brooklyn in the 80s which looked pretty rough too and a woman commented about one spot in the video where she was skipping with a couple of other girls on the sidewalk in front of their apartment. I had a short conversation with her in the comments and she sounded legitimate and was quite excited to see herself and her friends in the video which she had no idea even existed.
@@thedarkage187 25 in 85 62 is the average age this was clearly 1980 81 Mamas went out of business in 82 and here its still in business this may even be ate 70s. So 25 in 82 probably even earlier makes average 65
@@TravelingOnStardust I know part of the area where this footage came from. It looked like it started around 127th Street and then went down 8th Avenue past the 28th Police precinct down to about 111th Street. I remember those days but now every thing has been rebuilt in that area.
I know you will think I’m nuts, but there is something so beautiful about this. NYC is amazing in every way and so are the people who live there. Thank you for this video. Peace to all.
Ill see new cadillac deville buick regal Cutlass Supreme Chevrolet caprice And chevy van and 70 s cars the area Is a dump but cars was great lot of good memories Living in the 80s
I worked there and also played in a music group from '89 to 2001. I only had one issue where a guy called me honky because I brushed up against his side mirror. His girlfriend jumped out of the car and started shaming him and he stopped. I was very respectful. Aside from that, no issues. It was a great experience with people very welcoming towards me.
Wow reminiscing of old NY with all the abandoned buildings and empty lots. We use to play baseball /football in those empty lots. Even seeing pay phones on the corner is crazy looking.
I visited NY in 1982 with the Royal Dutch Navy. Before our trip we were told not to go to Harlem and not to travel with the underground, it was considered too dangerous. I was a young sailor and listened to my superiors, but when I see these images of that era I always regret not doing those things. I "only" walked the streets of NY city and I loved it. It was a life changing experience. I've been back to NY many times after and it will always be my favourite city.
@@captaincrispier8155 80s was when crack was new and fresh and was the beginning of the end of Harlem. Harlem is a crack infested wasteland now. Sad shell of what it used to be.
This is the Harlem I grew up in. So glad to be around to see it look so much better 😀 Just came across the building I've lived in all my life and got so emotional. Wow
Puuhh i am from East Germany 1990 and i think my hood have the Same Charaktersistik no Money all Closed but better Cars in Harlem and more Criminal Background..... My hood have more land and more Nature.... Harlem is build on Asphalt Stone all the same Buildings streets for me is this sick for Humans but i can Underatand why a Human Love his Childhood but i wish more for Everyone
@@elijahtt4853 41 years and I have seen a significant amount of improvement. By the way I lived in a building where: *the lobby doors were always open. *Every single drug under the sun was sold which is why I know the smell of each one. *The stairs were falling apart *the elevator hardly ever worked (often had to help carry my handicapped brother up 4 flights of stairs after school) *Father was almost robbed once *rats could be heard in the walls and there was a bad roach problem. *constant drug raids I say all that to say this... Harlem has come a long way and I only see it getting better.
@@karinaafrolatina Sorry you had to go through that my friend. Sounds pretty rough. Sincerely hope youre living a much better life now🙏... all im saying is it was a republican that made these areas so much better, and now from what i hear from New Yorkers things have taken a turn for the worse now with the dems in charge, more generally speaking of New York as a whole. "Turning into a 💩hole" were their exact words
Thanks Charlie for taking us down memory lane in Harlem. I did a Google maps analysis and from what i can tell it shows going westbound on W.127th, then southbound on St. Nicholas Ave. then cuts to rest of the trip southbound on Frederick Douglas Blvd, looking west. Many of those empty shells are still there and have been nicely renovated, probably several times over since then. In this video we can see the many signs of future development of those shells at that time, as well as new construction projects like the Antler Apartments at 6:45. Other things to note are: what is now the Greater Zion Baptist Church, NYPD 28th precinct, subway stairways are there at same locations. Would be nice if most of those cars from that time were still around. Wonder how many of those people and kids you see are watching themselves in this video today? Thanks for sharing!😊😊😊
I should have followed a family members advice and purchased one of those boarded up properties. Hers appraised recently for several million. The neighborhood has changed so much,including the faces!
I remember performing at the Apollo, they robbed our dressing room while we were on stage. that use to happen a lot at the Apollo.Then they kicked my crew out the theater when we tried to get at who did it. crazy night.In the 90's I was on 125th every saturday night. the good ol' days. My fave spot was Perks on Manhattan Ave, had a birthday party there. Wil Smith (fresh prince)performed a the rooftop when he first came out. 1,000 thugs in the spot and he did "girls of the world ain't nuttin but trouble.lol.
Can't tell you how much I appreciate you making this available 👍 These slices of history, like being on the corner, back then - 🙍 it lands hard for me, not entirely sure why. Regardless, many thanks man, this is priceless 👍🍻🇨🇦
Redlining and segregation make crystal clear sense when you see what blacks do yo places they weren’t kept out of. Even if you don’t understand it, the rest of us see it now. Harlem was founded by the Dutch and was beautiful until blacks arrived. That’s also a common theme in history.
@@for_real5912 This was when it was 1st discovered and it was completely untreatable for the most part. AIDS ran through many high-risk groups like wildfire and the fear was everywhere..
Чарли, попробуй проехать по тем же самым улицам сейчас, и сделай видео, где на половине экрана будет эта старая запись, а на половине экрана новая. Интересно сравнить.
This is where my uncle, aunt, and cousin lived back in the 1980s. I used to go to Harlem every year for Thanksgiving and Christmas. Brings back good memories.
I was a teenager in Toronto in the 80’s and we had most of our downtown looking pretty rough and industrial not at this level and yes I don’t miss it. Gentrification is a great thing that I never thought would have such an amazing impact
Took me back to my childhood, a lot of good and bad memories thank you for bringing me back in time, hope and wish for your child to grow and wish for you to come up
Homie this is great video.This area is my hood navigating back and forth to my mother and grandmothers house uptown to downtown.This had to be around 86,87..I was about 10 but outside Literally.Great video of st.nick and 8th Ave. 💪🏿💯
Having worked there, and lived and worked in Philadelphia, the one thing missing to really give you the experience is the smell. And the heightened sense of awareness, that hood readiness.
I've lived in Harlem since 2005 and I can't believe the difference. I'm shocked that all this was even able to be renovated and upgraded from the extreme blight I see here! These streets of then and now are like night and day. Great video. ty.
Hi! Can you remember names of some streets we see in this video? I would like to find this places at Google Maps and compare. I'll be gratefull to you.
Very interesting video. The Overcast Sky pretty much sets the mood for this video. I wish there was a way to shoot this video again in 2022 tracing the same steps and same areas. NYC was really hurting back then, just look at the scenery. Abandoned and burnt out buildings, pretty much urban blight. I think New York City is still a great city, I guess every place seems to have its ebbs and flows. Thank You for posting this.
@@Des_Zee yes indeed......when the average Car was either a long square shaped box American Made Car or a Small sqaure shaped box foriegn Car!!!! 80s all day. All the way up until the 90s. Then bubble shaped cars was the average!!!
My hood it’s so very different now thank goodness breaks my heart seeing this and it also gives me great vibes as well from memories more than half of the people living there now would never live there.
The video quality seems to look really good for a handheld camera in the 80's. I would love to take a walk around there, it just has a certain atmosphere that I find appealing.
Woww! I was living in the Chicago Area during this time, but I always tried to make a "pilgrimage" to NYC once a year to see relatives living in different parts of the City, and could remember driving through Harlem on the way...
@6:05 Message for the 80's....Nyc writers - *Crack Kills* "Take it from the Kings TPA? BudIsm". Pose TFO RIP, Easy, Josh5, (Joz RIP), Fec, Chama, Jew to name a few kingz seen here. The 80's were some of the Illest, realest times, the air was different then. Thanks for posting this vid !! RIP DEZ aka Dezzy Dez aka DJ Kay Slay
Had to do with LA, but I’ve seen similar style driving videos on RUclips from back then with a second video of the same route and as it is today. The video are then played on a split screen side by side. I can only imagine how crazy that would be if it were done for this video. So many abandoned buildings and empty lots in this one.
There are some bldg that are still here but have been renovated but most are gone…8th Ave was blocks of abandoned lots back then…it could dangerous late night
You can tell the Dutch were once there. Very similar buildings. The only difference between Amsterdam and New York would be the sidewalks. New York's sidewalks are much wider and very spacious.
Watching this makes me wonder who in the video is still around and kicking? Love these shots really gives a brief real life view into all the tales of city hoods and scary places. I would have loved to have been there in the 80s with a camera! Thank you Charlie!
Lol this really isnt that long ago. Mostly everyone is still around. The abandoned/burned up buildings are gone. A bunch of white people have moved in. But everything else is the same. I would say this decade is the last hurrah if you were born in the 50s and 60s. By 2030 you guys are pretty much FOSSILS.
It’s amazing how few cars & little traffic there was during this time. At least when compared to today. So many empty spaces to park your car, now you’d be lucky to even find a spot in front of a fire hydrant or in a “No Standing Anytime” sign.
Let's see, I saw Riverside Church and Grant's Tomb on the horizon so this is Central Harlem heading south. At 6:58 you see the huge Cathedral of St. John the Divine in the distance which is around 110th - 111th and Amsterdam Ave. Being an '84 baby, I would've most likely been a toddler living about 30 blocks up near the Hudson River. Nice time capsule for us Natives.
I grew up in the 80s but was interested in this area as I was listening to albums like krs1 criminal minded and there was all this battling going off about areas in the Bronx etc..I don’t know what it’s like now but back then it was like half derelict and a run down area but the people were proud of living their and proud of their roots...Thankyou great movie 👍❤
Driving south on Frederick Douglass Blvd. That's my neighborhood where I live now. Most of those buildings don't even exist anymore. Now, that area is being gentrified and many Columbia University students, C U employees and even many White people are taking over that area. Google map it and you'll see how it has changed. I used to live right by the 28th Precinct, in Harlem, which you can see as the person drives through. It's the building that takes the entire block as he drives south on Frederick Douglass Blvd. I now live on Fred Douglass, the building that's being constructed right at the corner before the video ends. It's a building mostly for seniors, retirees and those who are collecting SSI.
when i see this ,it gives me the vibe of hill street blues or streets of san fransisco series. but some great classic cars i see,much nices then modern cars.
@@GeeEm1313 No it wasnt. I remember I dropped a friend off in front of a condemned building on E6th st, there was an "X" painted on entrance boarded shut. I said "where are you going i? she said "there's a club in the basement you just have to avoid the rats" lol
This is giving me fernweh. Or is it anemoia? I am feeling nostalgic about a place I’ve never been but it also reminds me of when I was a kid watching Cagney & Lacey, Fame and The Equilizer🥹😅
Thank you for the post ,I'm from Jersey and though it was a rough time then . Believe it or not it was a helluva lot safer Harlem and NYC as a whole...than it is in present day ..I could be wrong but that's what I was thinking ...and as the commenter said no cell phones ...dat all by itself was a beautiful sight to behold...thanks again for the upload my man 👍Merry Christmas 👍
Wowwwwww 119th street and 8th avenue yo it was like living in hell for real. The lobbies had no light so when you walked past the building, it was nightmare. I can’t believe my eyes watching this video. Man I miss that vacant lot feeling.
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@@kevinanderson4804 that's a good question??? Omg what slums imagine breaking down there! Or forced to live there
The video of Lick it up by Kiss is done in the Bronx check it out! They didn't even need props!!!
Looks like they used the A-Team van to film this one...?
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Imagine someone watching this now in their 60's and seeing themselves walking around in the video when they were like 20 years old... Man, that would blow your mind and skip a few heartbeats I bet 😆
@Zombert - They would be probably in their 50s if they were in there 20s in this film......On another note ...I could have swore I seen Alpo standing by the Jeep [5:08] .......🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
I watched a video like this but it was Brooklyn in the 80s which looked pretty rough too and a woman commented about one spot in the video where she was skipping with a couple of other girls on the sidewalk in front of their apartment. I had a short conversation with her in the comments and she sounded legitimate and was quite excited to see herself and her friends in the video which she had no idea even existed.
Imagine Samuel Muthafaka Jackson Walking there
Yes, it did. I was born in Spanish Harlem in 1955 and I am still alive and well at 67 years old.
@@thedarkage187 25 in 85 62 is the average age this was clearly 1980 81 Mamas went out of business in 82 and here its still in business this may even be ate 70s. So 25 in 82 probably even earlier makes average 65
The time traveling fearless man uploads another great one
This is pretty cool to see! I wonder where this footage came from? New York was no joke in the 70s and 80s! 😳
@@TravelingOnStardust It looked like hell on earth, at least Harlem did.
@@kenlompart9905 I believe it!
@@TravelingOnStardust I know part of the area where this footage came from. It looked like it started around 127th Street and then went down 8th Avenue past the 28th Police precinct down to about 111th Street. I remember those days but now every thing has been rebuilt in that area.
He was driving pretty fast for a fearless man. I watched this slo-mo at 0.25 speed.
Damn, Charlie can even go back in time!
lol
😂🤣😂🤣
Lol
damn, i wanted to say this lol
Yes
I know you will think I’m nuts, but there is something so beautiful about this. NYC is amazing in every way and so are the people who live there. Thank you for this video. Peace to all.
The hoods were worse back then but the cars were cooler.
Honda Civic, Renault Alliance
Ill see new cadillac deville buick regal
Cutlass Supreme Chevrolet caprice
And chevy van and 70 s cars the area
Is a dump but cars was great lot of good memories
Living in the 80s
@@valentinrobert1192 are you French ?
@@julienbee3467 yes his french from paris
I love that someone had the foresight to do this. The plainness of this captures a nostalgic, poetic beauty of this rough yet simpler time.
A scroll in time . Feels like I am a passenger in first person
All it does is show white kids who were raised on guilt that black people have always been destructive.
Amazing words! Spot on
Damn greatly put. 👏👏👏👏
It's cool to see the old cars from the 80s
Though gritty, watching this took me back. Wow, Harlem has truly evolved from then. I saw Martin Paint, blew my mind. Thank you for this!
Who's he ?
@@mistofoles If you weren't there you wouldn't know! I wasn't there so I don't know!
Yeah! I saw it too. I remember when they went out of business. Good sales. You remember Steak and Take? Now that was some Good eating!
I worked there and also played in a music group from '89 to 2001. I only had one issue where a guy called me honky because I brushed up against his side mirror. His girlfriend jumped out of the car and started shaming him and he stopped. I was very respectful. Aside from that, no issues. It was a great experience with people very welcoming towards me.
I love footage like this, especially from places like New York. Every building and every block has a story to tell.
something tells me this is charlie in the same damn vehicle that needs new shocks
Это не они стучат, держу в курсе.
Wow reminiscing of old NY with all the abandoned buildings and empty lots. We use to play baseball /football in those empty lots. Even seeing pay phones on the corner is crazy looking.
Yup the hood ole days… if they wasn’t there they wouldn’t understand
If you bought an abandoned building, how much would be worth today?
@@Freelandrew 3.million.. we own one
I visited NY in 1982 with the Royal Dutch Navy. Before our trip we were told not to go to Harlem and not to travel with the underground, it was considered too dangerous. I was a young sailor and listened to my superiors, but when I see these images of that era I always regret not doing those things. I "only" walked the streets of NY city and I loved it. It was a life changing experience. I've been back to NY many times after and it will always be my favourite city.
They were right you woulda got jacked
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Bsck then it was really dangerous to go out there if you weren’t from Harlem. That was the height of the crack epidemic.
@@BigbearTKO '82?
@@captaincrispier8155 80s was when crack was new and fresh and was the beginning of the end of Harlem. Harlem is a crack infested wasteland now. Sad shell of what it used to be.
This is the Harlem I grew up in. So glad to be around to see it look so much better 😀
Just came across the building I've lived in all my life and got so emotional. Wow
sure
Puuhh i am from East Germany 1990 and i think my hood have the Same Charaktersistik no Money all Closed but better Cars in Harlem and more Criminal Background..... My hood have more land and more Nature.... Harlem is build on Asphalt Stone all the same Buildings streets for me is this sick for Humans but i can Underatand why a Human Love his Childhood but i wish more for Everyone
Give the Dems a few more yrs and rest assure it will be a 💩hole again
@@elijahtt4853 41 years and I have seen a significant amount of improvement. By the way I lived in a building where:
*the lobby doors were always open.
*Every single drug under the sun was sold which is why I know the smell of each one.
*The stairs were falling apart
*the elevator hardly ever worked (often had to help carry my handicapped brother up 4 flights of stairs after school)
*Father was almost robbed once
*rats could be heard in the walls and there was a bad roach problem.
*constant drug raids
I say all that to say this... Harlem has come a long way and I only see it getting better.
@@karinaafrolatina Sorry you had to go through that my friend. Sounds pretty rough. Sincerely hope youre living a much better life now🙏... all im saying is it was a republican that made these areas so much better, and now from what i hear from New Yorkers things have taken a turn for the worse now with the dems in charge, more generally speaking of New York as a whole. "Turning into a 💩hole" were their exact words
Priceless piece of document. No pseudo-emotional music, no comments, pure vision.
You went back in time to give us the hood in the 80s appreciate it man :) 💯
I love watching footage which captured the real NYC from these time periods; they make me miss the NYC I remember visiting as a child. So nostalgic.
Thanks Charlie for taking us down memory lane in Harlem. I did a Google maps analysis and from what i can tell it shows going westbound on W.127th, then southbound on St. Nicholas Ave. then cuts to rest of the trip southbound on Frederick Douglas Blvd, looking west. Many of those empty shells are still there and have been nicely renovated, probably several times over since then. In this video we can see the many signs of future development of those shells at that time, as well as new construction projects like the Antler Apartments at 6:45. Other things to note are: what is now the Greater Zion Baptist Church, NYPD 28th precinct, subway stairways are there at same locations. Would be nice if most of those cars from that time were still around. Wonder how many of those people and kids you see are watching themselves in this video today? Thanks for sharing!😊😊😊
I remember that area. That where I use to get all my crack from
Thank you for your research!
most is gone
These clips are years apart
8th ave… I remember it oh so well… best of times
As a European who only knows the USA through movies but grew up in the 80s: oh look, the real sesame streets!
Exactly my thoughts.
Me too. Now i have the Starsky and hunch song in my head 😁
@@williamdtt lol 😎👍🏽
Ugh I wouldn’t go if I knew the way😂
@@theghostinthemachine5602 ugo
I should have followed a family members advice and purchased one of those boarded up properties. Hers appraised recently for several million. The neighborhood has changed so much,including the faces!
Yes! That was the time to buy. I knew someone in Bed Stuy who bought back then with the same appreciation in value.
They were selling some buildings for a $1 in Harlem & BedStuy. It would have been a great investment if you could keep it up throughout the years.
Yea unfortunately the faces changed. Miss the old neighborhood how it use to be. Great times and memories
I remember performing at the Apollo, they robbed our dressing room while we were on stage. that use to happen a lot at the Apollo.Then they kicked my crew out the theater when we tried to get at who did it. crazy night.In the 90's I was on 125th every saturday night. the good ol' days. My fave spot was Perks on Manhattan Ave, had a birthday party there. Wil Smith (fresh prince)performed a the rooftop when he first came out. 1,000 thugs in the spot and he did "girls of the world ain't nuttin but trouble.lol.
Crazy to think , some of the most well known Harlem legends are probably in one of those buildings as a toddler watching transformers.
Like who? Frank lucas?
@@robertmoray988 but wasnt biggie brooklyn hood?
@@meegssan5716 Big L, RIP
@@meegssan5716 Yeah Biggie is from Brooklyn. Across the East River
Big L
Can't tell you how much I appreciate you making this available 👍
These slices of history, like being on the corner, back then - 🙍 it lands hard for me, not entirely sure why.
Regardless, many thanks man, this is priceless 👍🍻🇨🇦
Redlining and segregation make crystal clear sense when you see what blacks do yo places they weren’t kept out of.
Even if you don’t understand it, the rest of us see it now. Harlem was founded by the Dutch and was beautiful until blacks arrived. That’s also a common theme in history.
It's never gonna come back, is it. The 80s and 90s were just different time for everybody. It's been too long, man. I miss my childhood.
The 80’s were such a rough decade…high-crime, AIDS, crack, cold war, etc, etc
We've traded the AIDS for fentanyl, and now have overt limited war.
Why Aids ?
@@for_real5912 This was when it was 1st discovered and it was completely untreatable for the most part. AIDS ran through many high-risk groups like wildfire and the fear was everywhere..
@@KingNeutral1 ☹️😱
@@for_real5912 Yeah check out some of the early AIDS documentaries here on RUclips..some scary stuff
These throw backs are so cool
Watching these videos gives you that feeling of being alive in ways that you can not put into words.
I like watching vintage footage of The 80’s 🎥 ❤
This is incredible...I was there in 1983 and this looks very close to what I remember.
What did you do there?
@@user-jw2gh2uo5q Blow and Snow and Hookers and Traps ...
@@dalestephen1361 I in this time went to the school in Donetsc city in USSR - and i didn't think about Harlem at all )))
@@user-jw2gh2uo5q My father was a truck driver and I would ride with him.
@@user-jw2gh2uo5q А зараз ти де?
Чарли, попробуй проехать по тем же самым улицам сейчас, и сделай видео, где на половине экрана будет эта старая запись, а на половине экрана новая. Интересно сравнить.
Good idea
Yes, it looks like in Ukraine, in some places.
that’d be 🔥
@@iivaridark6850 Where have you seen so many blacks in Ukraine? )))
@@iivaridark6850 most of Ukraine looks like that the last 30 years, nothing new has been built but ukrainian flags all over the place.
The fact you see not 1 person w a cell phone makes me smile so damn much
Rat, out of these ugly buildings some one was working on the cell phone, and then....bingo.
@@agustindejesus7398 I mean people had to actually talk to each other
I love That way 😍
I was trying to figure out what was different. That’s it! No cellphones.
the landlines wifiers something horrible saying targeted there was a horrible gang out in the world at this time even
This is where my uncle, aunt, and cousin lived back in the 1980s. I used to go to Harlem every year for Thanksgiving and Christmas. Brings back good memories.
charlie became a time traveler damn
There will always be a charm to the 80s even in the image of these old and ruined hoods. It’s fascinating.
It's charming on a RUclips video yeah. Living there though, not so much
No
I was a teenager in Toronto in the 80’s and we had most of our downtown looking pretty rough and industrial not at this level and yes I don’t miss it. Gentrification is a great thing that I never thought would have such an amazing impact
The last GOOD decade in America.80's
I was there in 2018, close to the Firebrigade, it changed totally and that gives hope, people changes too. Thank you posting!
Yeah due to gentrification 😏
Took me back to my childhood, a lot of good and bad memories thank you for bringing me back in time, hope and wish for your child to grow and wish for you to come up
Wow... What a flashback!!... Cool footage man!!
Homie this is great video.This area is my hood navigating back and forth to my mother and grandmothers house uptown to downtown.This had to be around 86,87..I was about 10 but outside Literally.Great video of st.nick and 8th Ave. 💪🏿💯
I used to live here in the 1920’s, how Times have changed
I was in my early 20s living in Miami Florida enjoying my youth, thanks for the trip down memory lane. 🌤 🏖
Having worked there, and lived and worked in Philadelphia, the one thing missing to really give you the experience is the smell.
And the heightened sense of awareness, that hood readiness.
I've lived in Harlem since 2005 and I can't believe the difference. I'm shocked that all this was even able to be renovated and upgraded from the extreme blight I see here! These streets of then and now are like night and day. Great video. ty.
Hi! Can you remember names of some streets we see in this video? I would like to find this places at Google Maps and compare. I'll be gratefull to you.
Thanks for posting, another great video.
116TH ST. NOW LOOKS COMPLETELY DIFFERENT!!!!💯💯💯
I felt so many emotions watching this. It felt like I was really there.
I wouldn't be surprised if Charlie was really filming this 🤣
This is the definition of a real hood
That would be crazy if he kept (and found) this old footage from almost 40 years ago! 😳
Charlie couldn't film this. He cannot travel back in time. It's impossible.
@@gameguru1488 duh
@@TravelingOnStardust yeah that's what I was thinking, like maybe Charlie Boi had this and is now springing this as a secret weapon!
@@ArkOmen1 Could be, lol! That's pretty cool if so!
Thank you for your work!
Never been there, so appreciate the tour. We always hear so much about the big Apple!
Harlem world 139 and Lenox avenue RIP Big L
Big Lamont Coleman Harlem Born and Raised RIP
Man I didn't know you can time travel too.
Just kidding man keep up with the great work! Love your videos!
Nah this video is so clean it’s like it’s from an iPhone. Great work.
Very interesting video. The Overcast Sky pretty much sets the mood for this video. I wish there was a way to shoot this video again in 2022 tracing the same steps and same areas. NYC was really hurting back then, just look at the scenery. Abandoned and burnt out buildings, pretty much urban blight. I think New York City is still a great city, I guess every place seems to have its ebbs and flows. Thank You for posting this.
Only Charlie would risk time travel to bring us footage like this. Appreciate ya pops
this looks like mid to late 80s footage
@@Des_Zee yes indeed......when the average Car was either a long square shaped box American Made Car or a Small sqaure shaped box foriegn Car!!!! 80s all day. All the way up until the 90s. Then bubble shaped cars was the average!!!
I remember that area. That where I use to get all my crack from
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@@thedarkage187now everyone's car is shaped like a tank 😪
My hood it’s so very different now thank goodness breaks my heart seeing this and it also gives me great vibes as well from memories more than half of the people living there now would never live there.
Love the throwbacks
Would be nice to have this updated to today...
Damn, they did not mess around with boarding up places! They straight up cemented them! lol
81 I was still doing the disco fever in the Bronx and Harlem world...I worked on 23rd and my best friend lived in Grant projects Tony Barnhill rip...
Brings back a lot of memories!
Sidewalks was surprisingly mad clean
The video quality seems to look really good for a handheld camera in the 80's.
I would love to take a walk around there, it just has a certain atmosphere that I find appealing.
Yes I agree very good quality video recorder and video tape, nice light absorption, almost looks like 16mm but very unlikely...
Wow so interesting to see how much and how drastically my hood has changed! The precinct on 123rd and 8th avenue is still the same today @ 3:24
Facts
Been waiting for funky town to start
Woww! I was living in the Chicago Area during this time, but I always tried to make a "pilgrimage" to NYC once a year to see relatives living in different parts of the City, and could remember driving through Harlem on the way...
@6:05 Message for the 80's....Nyc writers - *Crack Kills* "Take it from the Kings TPA? BudIsm". Pose TFO RIP, Easy, Josh5, (Joz RIP), Fec, Chama, Jew to name a few kingz seen here. The 80's were some of the Illest, realest times, the air was different then. Thanks for posting this vid !! RIP DEZ aka Dezzy Dez aka DJ Kay Slay
thank you for all what you do
This video brings me memories of my single digits days. Many fun days, sad days, and how much has changed. I miss my childhood days.
Amazing footage. What buildings survived that period went on to be renovated and are worth millions now
Bro 😀
I would like to see a side by side viewing of then compared to now.
Had to do with LA, but I’ve seen similar style driving videos on RUclips from back then with a second video of the same route and as it is today. The video are then played on a split screen side by side. I can only imagine how crazy that would be if it were done for this video. So many abandoned buildings and empty lots in this one.
There are some bldg that are still here but have been renovated but most are gone…8th Ave was blocks of abandoned lots back then…it could dangerous late night
You can tell the Dutch were once there. Very similar buildings. The only difference between Amsterdam and New York would be the sidewalks. New York's sidewalks are much wider and very spacious.
These buildings were built well after the Dutch left
Italians not dutch
@@diangelo6686 What do Italians have to do with the architecture?
@@darkmatter7668 a lot of my it was built by Italian immigrants
Sidewalks were widened over time
Love the old sidewalk fire alarm box at 6:42.
Wow this is amazing 🤩 it’s like a time capsule wish we can get a before and after pictures of the buildings too
GOOD OLE HARLEM!!!!
WE HAD SUCH A STRONG SENSE OF COMMUNITH BACK IN THE DAY!!!!💯💯💯💐💐💐
The best. These were really the good ole days.
You right! I'm proud to say I grew up there. Prepared me for this Cold World! An education like no other.
Watching this makes me wonder who in the video is still around and kicking? Love these shots really gives a brief real life view into all the tales of city hoods and scary places. I would have loved to have been there in the 80s with a camera! Thank you Charlie!
I always ask myself the same question when I see videos like that. Would love to have a time machine as well..
I went to school where this being filmed. I remember seeing it like this
Half those people are dead or old
The cars are gone building are gone
New building Charles is older that was he was young
Lol this really isnt that long ago. Mostly everyone is still around. The abandoned/burned up buildings are gone. A bunch of white people have moved in. But everything else is the same. I would say this decade is the last hurrah if you were born in the 50s and 60s. By 2030 you guys are pretty much FOSSILS.
I'm still kicking...but I was only a baby in 1985
What a thrilling environment. This was probably the only working camera for miles around. It has a Wild West vibe but in a more modern time.
I loved seeing all the cars . They were real cars with power and 4 barrel carburetors. Find more of these videos CharlieBo.
They were more exciting
back when they were built out of metal, without that electric garbage inside
@@captainfreedom3649 yessir that's right!!
They did that Cadillac dirty 😂😂
Straight mob cars 😂. They don't make em like that anymore.
Wow.. what a upload Charlie
It’s amazing how few cars & little traffic there was during this time. At least when compared to today. So many empty spaces to park your car, now you’d be lucky to even find a spot in front of a fire hydrant or in a “No Standing Anytime” sign.
The sounds and even the smell is different now. I wish we could bring the 80's back.
Let's see, I saw Riverside Church and Grant's Tomb on the horizon so this is Central Harlem heading south. At 6:58 you see the huge Cathedral of St. John the Divine in the distance which is around 110th - 111th and Amsterdam Ave. Being an '84 baby, I would've most likely been a toddler living about 30 blocks up near the Hudson River. Nice time capsule for us Natives.
Yea lot of this is 8th ave going downtown
@@cv1368 Exactly or its better known name of Frederick Douglass Blvd.
@@IndyCrewInNYC we still call it 8th ave, 7th Ave n Lenox… born n raised 115 st and Lenox. Foster projects.
@@cv1368 I hear ya...like 6th Ave. vs Ave. of the Americas. Born and raised adjacent to the RiverView Towers in Hamilton Heights - 140th St.
@@IndyCrewInNYC yessir
No cell phones, no TikTok, just people enjoying the moment.
Enjoying the moment smoking crack ..sounds better for sure
Damn Charlie has been doing this since the 80s? I thought he was younger yo but thanks for your content🙏
That's just 40 years ago. 6:59 that view of that church rooftop at the end of the street is pretty epic...
I was wondering if that is St James Cathedral?
You should do the same tour and compare how you are now.
Where did you get this footage?ppl been recording documentaries way before RUclips social media..wow 😮great footage though, keep’em coming…
I grew up in the 80s but was interested in this area as I was listening to albums like krs1 criminal minded and there was all this battling going off about areas in the Bronx etc..I don’t know what it’s like now but back then it was like half derelict and a run down area but the people were proud of living their and proud of their roots...Thankyou great movie 👍❤
Driving south on Frederick Douglass Blvd. That's my neighborhood where I live now. Most of those buildings don't even exist anymore. Now, that area is being gentrified and many Columbia University students, C U employees and even many White people are taking over that area. Google map it and you'll see how it has changed. I used to live right by the 28th Precinct, in Harlem, which you can see as the person drives through. It's the building that takes the entire block as he drives south on Frederick Douglass Blvd. I now live on Fred Douglass, the building that's being constructed right at the corner before the video ends. It's a building mostly for seniors, retirees and those who are collecting SSI.
when i see this ,it gives me the vibe of hill street blues or streets of san fransisco series.
but some great classic cars i see,much nices then modern cars.
Wasn't born yet but miss the 80's the fashion the cars all of the stores that are not there anymore dope stuff man
It would be interesting if someone from that area could take a video driving down the exact same street today?
I read this is about 111th to 127th St.
I wish I could travel back in time to the 80s and buy one of these Harlem properties
Believe it or not but The East Village Manhattan (Ave B-to Louisiga Ave e12th st down to Lower East Side ) looked even worse in the early 1980's
Alphabet City was no joke.
@@GeeEm1313 No it wasnt. I remember I dropped a friend off in front of a condemned building on E6th st, there was an "X" painted on entrance boarded shut. I said "where are you going i? she said "there's a club in the basement you just have to avoid the rats" lol
Lower East side gave Harlem a run for it money when it came to blight..although L.E.S didn’t have quite as many vacant lots
man this is real gritty new york
no shitty chain stores and tourists everywhere
This is giving me fernweh. Or is it anemoia? I am feeling nostalgic about a place I’ve never been but it also reminds me of when I was a kid watching Cagney & Lacey, Fame and The Equilizer🥹😅
Thank you for the post ,I'm from Jersey and though it was a rough time then . Believe it or not it was a helluva lot safer Harlem and NYC as a whole...than it is in present day ..I could be wrong but that's what I was thinking ...and as the commenter said no cell phones ...dat all by itself was a beautiful sight to behold...thanks again for the upload my man 👍Merry Christmas 👍
I like these videos to see the time period. I was born in '85. I wonder what year this is.
love seeing all the old GMC and chevy vans with the bubble windows in the back..... they were amazing work horses lol
This is epic. What kinda camera were they using though? It looks like it could've been filmed yesterday.
Ikr... was thinking the same thing...
That's where I grew up. It's completely gentrified now. Looks NOTHING like this
Looks nicer now 👍
Wowwwwww 119th street and 8th avenue yo it was like living in hell for real. The lobbies had no light so when you walked past the building, it was nightmare. I can’t believe my eyes watching this video. Man I miss that vacant lot feeling.
😂😂😂