New York THEN and NOW
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- Опубликовано: 31 май 2014
- A comparison between old and present day New York City.
The new photos were taken during April 12th 2014 - April 26th 2014.
New photos, editing and concept by: Cora Drimus
Music:
Tennessee-Hans Zimmer
Goodbye-Jan A.P. Kaczmarek
Old photos from:
New York Then and Now, E.B. Watson
New York Then and Now, M. Reiss, E. Joseph
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The best part was seeing the old buildings that still remain
So true!
yeah and to me those parks where you see the same tree but 10times bigger
Sadly they're being torn down as we speak
Buildings that aren't landmarks are gone
@@overtheatlas Eventually they have to go. It's nice when they can preserve a part of them and incorporate it into the replacement building, but it's not always possible or logical. Being old doesn't mean it's worth saving in every situation.
@@smgdfcmfah Unfortunate truth.
Someday folks... we'll be as distant a memory as these people
Q8Sea
bruh that fucking hit me hard. Like all of us. Fuckk
Most forgot ever
Things are much better archived now though, so probably not quite like this.
Thank god,who would like to live forever anyway..... Freddy mercury!
Have a nuclear powered recording with speaker so that every time someone goes past your grave it will shout out and tell them who you were. You'll be forever remembered, lol.
Pictures like these really make you realize how SHORT life is. For some reason looking at this has made me sad.
The darn music
Hey @Juan Lopez. You must be really old to have actually talked to those people and know they're racist. You must be over 100 at least. Most whites aren't racist actually. You prove by your comment that you're a racist by assuming those people are racist because of their race. Those people built the country that races from all over the world enjoy, and are living better in it than they did in their non-white countries of origin. The whites back then didn't have welfare, food stamps, medicaid, free housing or any other hand out like many other non-whites get now, that whites mostly pay for, so they had to fend for themselves to provide their families and survive. Get YOUR racism in check Juan!
@nimrodian You know me? I don't think so. You and your fake account. STFU dirtbag!
Kingdom of The Most High I love you
Kenny Mooney don’t know that someone if you look at them little angry face maybe you were tired or mad with something else, they’ll say that you racist.
This video makes me get so emotional. 100 years is quite short in certain perspective. A lot of things have been changed, but there are still a lot remained the same. Folks, love people around you. Life is short. Enjoy. We all will be just like those people in the old footage and be forgotten someday.
A lot of people need a reality check these days. Everyone dies, you will be forgotten in time in a 100 years or far less, unless make it to history books, don't pay for onlyfans pics, you can find them free on the internet , and enjoy life because everything comes to an end at one point. Good or bad...
Now you're making me cry
It's the music. It has a sad/depressing sound to it.
"The key to immortality is first living a life worth remembering" - Bruce Lee
The key to immortality is you must first live a life worth remembering-bruce lee always believe
The Music is so Touching.
Its de Pearl Harbor soundtrack.
It makes u think about back then and know
Johnathon Barker It’s putting me in sleep.
Same
So Sensitive
Breaks my heart that so many of those great old buildings are both gone and forgotten now.
wrlord Rest In peace
Especially Penn Station. What’s there now is pretty horrible, imho.
wrlord stop being dramatic
wrlord Especially the singer building it was replaced by a giant black box.
Compliment Thief I don’t have hate in me all I said stop being dramatic how could u assume I’m hateful lol
Oh, my God.... I don't have enough room to put down my thoughts.. Priceless film. Thank you. An immigrant from Paris, France. Stunned...
I was born in 2006 but I seriously wish I could go back in time to see how beautiful the world used to be :I
same I wish time machines was actually invented
You have no idea how it was. Do some research on the past and then you’ll understand how much worse it was.
Depends how far back you go. I loved being a teenager in the '60s, but we had little problems like the Vietnam War, leaded gas and fear of atomic war. If you go back further nice things like laws about equal rights, then electric lights and indoor plumbing start disappearing, not to mention smallpox vaccines. Each period has its pluses and negatives, often not evident for those living in them.
me too😫
@@richardweil8813 Well said. People need to get rid of the notion that the world was sooo much better some time in the past. The world doesn't change as much as people think and there is always beauty and bad things in any time
RIP all peoples in old pictures
Imagine 1 of them is still alive :O
💔😢I like this old 1912
They are waiting for you
@@m-d-xiii9108 my Greatgrandpa was at NYC 1921 He is 106 now
Someday that would be us.
I was born in 1950, I loved what I just watched. I lived in interesting times. so much has happened in last 100 years. god bless new York. Here's to the future! I love this country so much.
The atek
My sentiments too!
Really??
You can truly say you love the United States??
Really??
You're lucky u have seen the old n the new world as well.....i was born in 2002 evrything are the same as today
@Adolf Hitler You should show some respect man. He's more experienced than yourself. One day, you'll become old too.
At 3:26 if you pause it there and look at the corner first floor shop exactly above where it says 1905, that small shop was the actual first Macy's store. Eventually Macys bought the entire block and own it to this day. The owner of Macys died with his wife when the Titanic sank in 1912.
@Isaias Perez No problem Isaias. If you want to know anything about New York City as far as something specific about a company or location that you can't find in Google search as me in this comment thread and If I know it, I'll leave you the answer. Even stuff like where did a certain celebrity live in New York City.
wow real facts thx
Wow... That is an amazing factoid.
@@___David___Savian so sad about the demolition of the singer building.
Imagine living in the 1880s, working so hard on a building design in modern day times square, working hard to build it, and some crackhead 80 years later decides to put an advertisement on it, completely covering the architecture
There c was actually a lot more public advertising back then in the form of huge neon signs and billboards. The energy crisis of the early 1970s combined with the environmental movement signalled the end of neon and billboards as means of advertising. TV played 's big role in that as well.
That reminds me of how in Germany (other countries too?) the trends in architecture changed. There were old buildings with the original architecture that was fancy and decorative. They were covered up to make them look like new buildings which were flat and simple.
I thought that was really interesting. I'm not sure how the buildings were updated, but re-modelers somehow hid the original architecture to make it look plain like new buildings at the time.
@@elainebmack That's really cool! I wonder what the colorful neon billboards looked like in person. I guess photos from back then couldn't capture the colors as well as real life.
Must be hard work
@Stranded NYer I wonder what the old ads looked like? It's a shame the billboards cover up the architecture though.
I think it's really cool how "billboards" used to be painted onto the sides of buildings and stay there to this day. Old businesses and products long gone are live on through brick walls, and sometimes they are revealed after being hidden behind newer buildings.
Perhaps they weren't so cool back then, as the ads were being blasted in people's faces, but it's interesting today!
www.thevintagenews.com/2016/08/28/ghost-signs-the-remains-of-painted-advertising-on-walls-look-up-to-see-into-the-past-2/
I sit beside the fire and think
Of people long ago
And people who will see a world
That I shall never know...
--J.R.R. Tolkien
Well said my friend
U are making me cry
life .
is making the world a better place for those that be born after we die.
You could've at least included the full name, Jolkien Rolkien Rolkien Tolkien
YIA YOU CORECT IN THIS
The old buildings were designed WAY more beautiful than today's buildings :(
You're forgetting that it was possible to built such ostentatious buildings when cheap/slave labour was available back then.
Along with everything else
yes all over the world old building was way more beautiful, but to build this kind of building today would cost so much and back in this day you did not have union and metarial was way cheaper and the people that did the hard job where not may so much. Just to build the Brooklyn Bridge 27 men died during its construction and do you think their family got money for the death of their love one, it cost 15.5 million dollars to build it at that time and 14 years of hard work, it would coast today to build the same one about 394 millions dollars
@@suikyodecopa WTF?
Reyna Mendoza go to boston or back in time to work as a factory slave
I've visited NYC twice. Before I went, I didn't understand the impact it would have on me. Now I know and this city is pure magic.
I like the older buildings, it has more emotions connected to it, like it feels more home.
Absolutely beautiful background music
I think its tue sound track of pearl harbor movie.
Ño.nc
Pearl Harbor soundtrack
Too much Hans Zimmer.
Pearl Harbor
I was born there in 1946. This is so precious. What I cannot believe is how beautiful 5th
Avenue was - the homes! So many avenues had gorgeous buildings. If preserved, NY would rival Paris as the most beautiful city.
Ann Schurman - Lol Paris is same than NYC. It's a beautiful place but that's all. Everything is very costy, and "les parisiens" (people from Paris) are very bad... NYC can actually rival Paris.
Samir Colovic Take it from a person who actually lived in the 40’s. The buildings were probably amazing. Maybe even better than she remembers.
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@catsintexas uh
Ann Schurman your old
It's sad when a Forever 21 store replaces a historic site.
I was born in 1959 in Brooklyn NY and have lived their all my life. These pictures are so precious. As a nostalgia lover I really appreciate these photos. Priceless. Thanks for sharing.
I was so sad watching this, but thought that it's just me being sentimental about history and the great architecture of our past. After reading some of the comments it warms my heart to know that there are many others that feel the same way as I do. Old NY was so grand and beautiful. Sometimes "modern" doesn't mean "better". Thank you for this interesting upload. The music was so moving, as were the photos.
I agree, but at least New York respects its history, and you can still see a lot of signs of the past all over the city today. I watched a similar video of Los Angeles recently comparing it today with the LA of the 1040's, and it's even more amazing how it looks nothing like it did then, despite being a much shorter span of time than this video.
GirladyLocks me too..i felt to cry..
The buildings were definately more beautiful back then. When you look at the New York Stock Exchange at 3:05 and the part just to the right with the arches was so beautiful compared to the updated photo where its just so plain. Same thing with the building that's across the street from it. Its a shame that the architecture from back then isn't valued more. Same thing with the inside of houses too. With all the beautiful woodwork that people just want to slap paint over it.
GirladyLocks u guys are idiots if u truly believe one architecture was worth living in these shitty times for over today
Could not agree more with you.
Beautiful!! As a native New Yorker I'm proud! Thank you for all your hard work into putting this production together . Well done!
Are you there
@@Meme68666I hope not. They need to get out of that shithole
I lived in NY for many years. I live in London now. This is where London is a clear winner in preserving the past with a blend of nuance.
London lost lots of it's historic buildings too but not to the same degree of NY.
What did London Preserve? Bricks,concrete,stone and Steel and Lumber? How about preserving the clothing styles...the textiles...take for example...wedding dresses from the 1930s and 1940's and 1950's were truly Beautiful and Regal and Insanely Feminine and Elegant. The Fabrics used were of Utmost Quality and Beauty and workmanship. The Bridal Satin was Unparalleled In Beauty, Shine, Opulence and Smoothness. Today's wedding dresses look like glorified napkins...rough as sand paper and as dull as broken cement. Full of ugly details and scratchy embellishments... Truly atrocious dresses. And that is just an example. How about preserving those things that are more fragile and delicate and Beautiful...and the Human Values also? How about WW2? London Was Bombarded by the Nazis quite badly I Read. It was terrible so I've heard through documentaries and films. I Would Love to visit London Though. As I do hear London is Awesome. I'm extremely Familiar with New York. Trust me. I was Born in New York. And Yes...New York has gone through too many changes some good some bad. Especially the people have changed and lost much of that wholesomeness of before. O.K. Thank You for reading my comment. P.S. Sorry for long tedious comment.
@Mr Guy What is wrong with you Mr Guy?
@Mr Guy What? Are you a Troll? What did I Say wrong?
@Mr Guy Bruh? I'm not your "Bruh". I say what ever the fk I wanna say. Holy G-D Bless America. Freedom of Speech.
The music behind is absolutely amazing 😍 and NYC.
its Pearl Harbor music Tennessee by Hans Zimmer
After this video I understood how is life much short. We are nothing
We only human. Today we have tomorrow we maybe not have in this life. One one day for us must be great day. From human only will left goodness and kindness. Thanks for video. Amazing
What we have are our ancestors and our children. What we strive for in life is usually meaningless as we get to keep nothing, most people realize this only when they are dying. The relationships that we build is everything.
-im not short
Talk about yourself bro. I ain’t no nothin’
11:07 The picture of Grand Central Station with the light beaming in from the windows is stunning.
Truth be told what you're seeing there is the reflection of light off of dust particles in the air, without which there'd be no way to see any beams of light. Lots and lots of dust particles, absent in the modern pictures.
Morpheus it’s actually/also the cigar smoke before they were not allowed to smoke inside.
@Agustin Melendez Yes, that too.
The nostalgia of the music is so fitting. What a beautiful and well done compilation! Thank you for this historical piece. You did an amazing job and I truly enjoyed it.
One day in the next 100 years our next generation will be watching us how we lived and get the same feeling of how beautiful life looked in the past ❤️
i wish it would be like that😔
I doubt it very much. You think the modern world is beautiful? Seriously?
According to prophecy we won't get to 100 years. 😞
@@ArizonaWillful yeah, because there is no world war anymore
I'm not American, but this almost made me cry...
yea, a lot of beauty was lost with "development".............
Yes, I know how you feel. New York is the cultural center of the new world. It's such a romantic place 😊
I know me too!
Love New York because I was born New York..
You almost cried because of the music. Watch it without the music playing it will be different
Is it me or does the city just look so much more beautiful back then?
I see my beautiful hometown and then see what they did to it recently, I dont think I can ever go back. I loved that city.it was the greatest
It was once the New City, The Jewel of America! God be with us all and may his grace continue and his mercy we know is forever🙏
been there so many times and saw these places so many times but this is how memory is preserved..when you stop to think, to enjoy for a moment.
the music is really good too..
thanks for uploading..
The old pics, the background music, that nostalgia feeling... I was just about to cry :/
That made me cry. Time stands still for no one. The music is beautiful.
So so true, I am crying
The music is from the Pearl Harbor (2001) soundtrack. Which I think I still own, need to go check.
Wait. So you're telling me there was a time when you could actually see the sky in Manhattan?
Yes, but sadly its been many years ago.
Timon Steup System is the problem 🏡 Our Life should be around these Great Qualities.....
1, Show all living creatures; all the love and kindness as much as you can.
2, Only try to be honest with yourself. If you try to be honest with others, you will get into big trouble soon or later.
3, Aim only one target at a time; otherwise you are chasing two rabbits and you will miss both. So, the reason behind it. Have one powerful reason and never ever give up the one you want the most.
4, Don't try to be good person only but be the powerful person. We will grow to be the one or we will die. There is no other choice.
5, Always learn and look for to improve something your life.
6, You are not alone. Love and faith the high power reduces unnecessary stress in life. But never completely rely on it.
7, Success and happiness are the byproducts of our usefulness. So, always increase the possibility of success.
8, Life is not going to be easy. Because of our unnecessary things. Eliminate all the unnecessary things as much as you can by organising yourself well with the environments.
9, Never believe anything without the proper evidences.
10, Always try to give more than you take.
Because it is dignity/ character of the divinity within you.
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People are controlled by system why?
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Beautiful Music thank you for sharing
Of 100 years ago, New York is very beautiful.
There's pretty places in NYC. Grand Central Station in the 70's and 80's it was ugly rundown, early 90's or late 80's it was renovated. Many cities have undergone beautification projects. So many moving to cities which provides the tax revenue as well as the support to do such things. To bad rents are increasing way too quick though for the same reason so many are flocking to cities and as a consequence as a consequence of beautification projects as well... ups the supposed market values of rent and property. However, I think lot of the recent increases in real-estate in many cities has to do with the economic concept of Physiocracy, that real wealth is always tied to land, thus one should buy land to maintain land and get the best return on that wealth's income. Problem with that philosophy is it prices people out of the market, with credit, this leads to harmful booms, and harmful busts.
i like your kitty pic
i'm so glad the persons taking the pics on old times documented where and when it was taken.
Me too
The question that needs to be asked is, how is it possible if the United States was declared a nation in 1776? I do not believe that in 100 years so many majestic buildings have been built both on the east coast and on the west coast. As they transported the materials, the equipment, the cranes, the labor force (the territory was barely being populated). Something is wrong.
@@raulcarbonell428 Think about how much has changed since 1920, in the past 100 years we have seen so many technological advancements it's crazy to think about!
@@KendoontheCam Friend, it is not thinking a hundred years forward, it is to analyze how those majestic buildings not made of rod or cement arrived at the place seen in the video. I think you have to use your brain a little more and learn to see a little further ahead, either forward or backward.
Raúl Carbonell lol ok “friend”
What a wonderful video; thank you this tribute and such fabulous music is playing!
Thanks Margret. Glad you liked it 😊
I cried so much watching this. Beautifully done!
When I see the people at Ellis Island I cant help but hold back tears as my great great grandparents were once there. In a new country to start a new life, so beautiful then compared to now. This was very beautiful to see how the city has grown from infancy to now a mega metropolis. I cried.
Agreed :( . I also feel cry to hear abt .
*_Tons of mine to left Ireland & went through there..It stings but many made it..We have 40M Irish in America now & still have 4M on our small island_*
AUDE SAPERE 4 million is the right amount here, because human traffic and pollution is not a thing we want
@@johnjo7846 I hope you're not American, because what you said goes against everything this country stands for.
You're not seeing reality. Living conditions were poor back then. Most people who came by ships were in the lower decks and packed like sardine cans.
And then americans complain because their country has no history to show. Of course, they pull down whatever is older than 50 years!
Imagine how gracious and beautiful would New York be today if it'd have preserved all these beautiful old architectures.
+AtrolinK A lot of those old buildings were shitholes and dangerous. The best are kept.
There are very well preserved monuments in Albany NY
+AtrolinK I have to agree with you that a lot of beautiful architecture was torn down and replaced with soulless square blocks. Just look at old photos of Penn Station (inside and out) and then look at the ugliness of it's replacement. And contrary to Gordon Bennett's comment, they weren't shitholes. It's just that somebody wanted to cram more office space into the same area that housed a beautifully (and soundly-built) older building. Of course, the old tenements were wisely replaced. I'm talking of the larger classic structures and not the buildings that were junk even in their day.
+Archix_ I think you are describing yourself.
+BeanieandCecil CecilandBeanie So you are allowed to call them junk but others may not criticize them?
Beautifully done ! The music really brings out the nostalgia. Thank you very much !!!
this video means the world to me. new york has always been my dream destination. i watch this video religiously and have since i first found it. two weeks ago i finally made it to new york. it was only 2 days but i made it. during new york, a bunch of bad things went down in my personal life, it was a very polarizing trip. this video always brings me to tears, and even so now seeing all these buildings. i’m hoping i will be lucky enough to live in the greatest city in the world at one point. thank you so much for posting this.
When I see the pictures, taken in 1917, of the people in the streets walking to their destination I realize none of them have seen a television, a radio, a cell phone, the internet, movies with sound, a home computer, microwave ovens, electric refrigerators, rock 'n roll music, Pokémon, Pac Man, an astronaut, penicillin, sulfa drugs, commercial airlines so many things I take for granted.
Then,were they more unhappy?
Never take pokemon for granted. Ever.
@Truth There is a way.
Its true people were happier with less back then
Just listening to this beautiful music and looking at the images just makes me think of how fast time really goes and about how most of us are wasting that time doing things that we don’t really want to do and living the way we don’t really want to live. It makes me want to just stand up and take all I ever wish for. No more putting up with things and no more settling. The person I was before I watched this video is now gone.
Jewels yes its a beautiful music indeed
What song or music it is?
ภราดร ผ่องแผ้ว It’s in the description.
Pearl Harbor
Do you still feel that way?
This music is LOVELY and moving! My heart jumped when the music suddenly swelled!❤️
The music was very melancholy and many of the photos deserved that feeling. We've lost a lot in Manhattan and in this country as well. For me, the saddest photos were of the masses of immigrants on Ellis Island. They entered with fairly opened arms. And now, well, you know what's going on with immigration. The photos were wonderful to look at Thank you for this.
I visited New York in 2012. While everyone was racing to their jobs and businesses, I was consistently in awe of the city and its history and architecture. Truly stunning, and one of the best in the world.
When sandy was there?
You are also welcome to China to travel around
This is depressing, just shows how quickly time passes by :(
Yep, our lives are but a vapor. Here today and gone tomorrow.
One Smug Mug ik 😭💔
*"just shows how quickly time passes by"*
Um no. You were just born late. Time passed very slowly if you lived through those years.
Henry // And how would you know? Did you ask your great grandmother for her time machine glasses?
It's also creepy knowing all those people in the pictures are most likely dead
Absolutely can't believe it!!! Today i realized RUclips is a time machine... thanks for this... really enjoyed it...
Anything from the past is a nostalgic scene, gratefully felt and appreciated🤗
I can't believe all those historic building are gone now.
Not all of them they kept some
***** Permanency and monumentality aren't governing factors in the way I rate architecture: for instance, I think the Met is a hideous looking building.
***** I never said it did.
italia543210 It's not ugly, 60s architecture is ugly!
The Dazzling Dolphin I like 60 architecture so go f*** yourself
It's really awesome to see so many buildings and landmarks standing the test of time.
absolutely stunning video! the pics, the music, everything. just incredible to watch.
Thanks😊 glad you liked it.
Omg, at 6:46 even though the picture on the left is in black & white, you can see the original copper color of the Statue of Liberty before she turned her patina green color. I read somewhere that the process took around 25 years for that to happen. I went and saw her for the very first time in 1986 after her big renovation in 1984. I made the climb to her crown. It's something you never forget if you've made that trip up all her circular stairs!!! 👍🗽
wow the old picture at 9:35 is so amazing and beautiful a family and their young son looking into the distance in their new life of freedom its shocking to think that everyone in that picture has mostly likely passed away already i wonder who they were and what kind of lifes they had especially the young boy its amazing how fast life flies by and in a blink of an eye its almost over
New York WAS magic for this...
lol how can you be sure its a boy, it's clearly a girl
hiroureist
lol im triggered now
yes I want to know the same things.
Joined a gang, ended up in prison.
Am I the only one saddened by watching this? I feel that we have destroyed beauty over time and are losing what we came from. Such beautiful old photos. I feel that we have lost our selves with modernism and technology. Thank you for your time and beautiful video ❤️
I agree with you, the modernism of building design creates base blueprints that make buildings in various countries lack a sense of culture relevant to their country, some of the multi storey buildings and mansions shown during the 20th century images look beautiful, and the modern buildings that have replaced them have lost the instrinsic culture respective of the country they are in.
we are same..if i can go back through time machine..if..........
I agree. Especially when the pic of Charles Tiffany’s mansion at Madison & 72nd was shown and that now it’s an apartment bldg. So sad that a beautiful home like that was demolished to make way for a high rise apartment bldg.
No you are not the only one saddened by this. I feel exactly the same.
Benja...Yes , These photos watching were so sad.
Beautiful pictures of the past.
This is really emotional for anyone that lived there and knows these places and walked these streets.
i like old new york
You are an artist! ...This video has the hand of an artist at work!
Please create more, I am now a subscriber.
New York looked a lot more elegant in the older pictures.
Whenever I look at such photos, I feel as if I lived in those times and longed for the past. Greetings from Turkey.
There is something so romantic about NYC that my heart seems to melt when i see the pictures on the left
Not only New York but other great American cities like Boston, Philadelphia, Chicago, Detroit, they were all beautiful classy prosperous cities in those early days.
@@r.pres.4121 until you see the dark side. Poverty, etc.
7:10.
Hurts every damn time.
Nowadays the authorities would think twice prior to demolish these old constructions, due to the history and architectural beauty.
You too huh? I've heard that they are trying to rebuild the original in some capacity though. It's a shame that they got rid of the original and replaced it with the bland underground station that they have now. Luckily the outrage from tearing down Penn Station saved Grand Central from the same fate.
lol?
JBYORK14 - That was Donald Trump who never cared for art or History unless it was about Hitler.
the music is amazing🙌🏻, it’s very interesting to see how NYC looked in the old days and compare how it has changed, thanks for this opportunity👍🏻
This music just kills me. Makes me think of how short life is, and how precious it is that we are alive now to witness and experience it...
It's crazy how much of the sky you can see before, now it's just seems like a never ending cluster of suffocating buildings.
same
It's a city, if you want to see more open sky's, go to a small town or to the country, I am sick of these whiny, ungrateful brats complaining because new york didn't stay the same. it's called development, it's going to happen, and I for one support it. You might think it's a shit hole now, but if I could bring someone from the 1800's and show them New York City today, the automobiles wouldn't be the only thing making their jaws drop.
Chill Panda Lol metre tall buildings? tf you live in. Tents?
But Chechi, that is only Manhattan Island, the other Burroughs are just like any other large town in the U.S., only difference is ... they tuawk funny.
Foxyguy Exactly
Wow ! What a change in just over 100 + years. Wish we had a time machine...... Thanks for sharing.
Yep. I'd love to get just one day to go back in time.
I have a feeling I'd return and be restless thinking on the really way past and trying to get there again.
Absolutely magnificent. Any true New Yorker becomes totally glued to this video . The transition is bittersweet . I wouldn’t mind visiting the early 1900’s in a time machine .
Excellent..heart wrenching travel through my past home places and excellent background music..could not hold back tears.,Thank you.
New York WAS beautiful ...
And still ..
Anthony Alo giant glass skyscrapers look awful and cheap, this is only glass, nothing spectacular, none interesting details, simplicity ... NY is a big corporate and capitalist shit, lost his CHARM, deal with it
It still is. Even more. You see it so much these days some people can't appreciate how incredible modern cities are. back then if they saw these pictures they would be like: HOLY FUCK! LOOK AT THOSE BIG ASS BUILDINGS! HOW DO THEY DO THAT! LOOK AT THE CARS! AHHHHHH
Was and is beautiful.
Old and new working together in perfect New York style harmony.
thank you
18 dislikes - what for ??? That clip is fantastic. Thanks for sharing it with us!!
Hello old comment lol...The dislikes were probably from people who were upset about some of these beautiful historic buildings being demolished.
Wow, what an incredible video -- I will keep it always. Thank you -- just beautiful -- what a different world we were back then.
Wow! Amazing.very precios video. My eyes are full of tears. Thankyou very much.
Excellent. You can't help noticing that too many interesting buildings have gone, only to be replaced by boring blocks.
+John Craske I like international style on architecture
True
Exactly
go to dubai
I live in New yock
The background music abd the classic old pictures so perfect together..some of the buildings of the old times are still standing to this day, just wow..this is making me so emotional right now
schlocky
What a magnificant city New York is. The history of it is outstanding. How hard the men worked that built all the buildings and bridges from the mid 1800's. By hand a lot of it. These beautiful buildings are still standing as they did 100 and 100 more years ago. How New York City evolved is truly amazing. The immigrants that came. Settled here. I been to almost all these spots except Pearl Street. It was so cool to see all the before and after shots of all the streets I've been to and know. My Dad would have loved this! He loved NYC as much as I do. I got his love and passion for it from him. This was set to beautiful soothing music too. Thank you!
The music in this video makes the pictures almost come to life
Wonderful, just wonderful! Thank you!
The old architecture was beautiful and breath taking! The New architecture looks just like lego blocks. A cement city filled with lego blocks
That is most big major cities throughout the world not just New York.
@@r.pres.4121 Yes and very depressing to look at
Agreed
How can you say that about the freedom towers remarkable piece of architecture truly
What about the one World Trade Center
I moved to the New York City in 2014. Now, looking at the 2014 pictures make me nostalgic. I wonder how some of the buildings and architectures I saw for the first time has been here since more than a century. Millions eyes like mine came to the city throughout the time and couldn’t help but fell in love with it.
Thanks for the stroll down memory lane
Hans Zimmer sure knows how to compose music that sets the mood. "Tennessee" is one of his best songs. Love the video.
same places different people life just goes on
yep.
Aside from the fascinating side by side pix....the music is so..........melancholy and totally captures the feeling of nostalgia.....lovely.......
I wouldn’t mind living back then. I’m 55 and i still think the best times were from the mid 70’s to the late 80’s. So much changed so fast in the 90’s
There's a feeling of space in the pictures of old New York and it's much prettier than the concrete jungle it is now.
Yea
so i hope you don't live or ever visit this "concrete jungle" time changes and things do change ...if you want live your life stuck in the old days move to Portugal
hiroureist Sounds good to me.
So what are you waiting? Did you move already?
MultiJejje Yeah I moved.
I can't watch this without crying for all those beautiful people including my grandparents and parents and brother, who loved NYC, who are gone.
Waste no moment, nor a single breath
In fearful flight from death:
For no matter the tears that may be wept,
The appointment will be kept.
beautiful priceless pictures !
Cora - simply fabulous, thank you so much.
Thanks Steve. Glad you liked it :)
Excellent presentation. Nice to see that we have still maintained a lot of our old historical buildings. Most sickening was the destruction of Penn Station to make way for the worst and ugliest transportation hub in the world. They came to their senses with Grand Central however.
Preserved thanks to Jackie Kennedy, Brendan Gill, and others.
This is like a love letter to New York!
Poor Chatiko
Very nice selection and good choice of music.
Reflecting back ... moving forward ... Memories ...Never die... Life is good.
Thank you for this video. That show us that we have to enjoy our life, because she is short for all of us and because the time will never stop. All peoples who are on these pictures are dead today and no one of them has thinked he will be viewed more than 100 years later on a thing who is called RUclips by a new world. Everybody who watched this video must remember of this during all his life, because that was the only way to see a world who no one of us has knew.
Thank you for reading this comment, my name is Alex and I'm from France.
Bonjour alex
Thank you!
This was amazing. I love history, especially stuff like this and it was amazing to see the city back then. How some parts remained untouched while others had changed completely. Thumbs up
I thoroughly enjoyed this presentation. Thank you for sharing.
Amazing pictures 😍