@@Gevixel: It sounds like you might have a problem with diversity. You are definitely not NYC-friendly and would probably be more at ease with those who choose to live far away from the 5 boroughs, segregating themselves from the mix of cultures and preferring to live with the bears in the woods. People with that mentality are the ones that make this city an angry, hostile, miserable place to live. New York City is accepting of ALL people regardless of race, culture, wealth, sexual orientation, etc. I am extremely proud to be a Native New Yorker!
I hear ya. I was born in 68 and NYC was my home thru the 70's, 80s and 90s. But my parents longed for the 50s and 60s and my grandparents the 30s and 40s. So who knows. I will say that NYC was cool during this time though. But we still had many of the same problems and bs then as we have today.
Who's here in April 2024? I love old images and videos, life was simpler and not as evil. When I see such videos I get such bitter sweet memories,I love it but I wana cry too,the nostalgia hurts so much!
Me too man I'm with you thank God for RUclips the close we will ever get to a time machine I was 14 life was so much better sure there were issues but nyc had grit character and love that this trash of a city does not have today .this city is an overpriced overcrowded gentrification mall
What about the crack epidemic, rise of materialism and aids? The Cold War was also still a thing. American Psycho tells you 80s yuppie greed is bad and even rich people' lives are superficial and hollow.
80’s and 90’s were the peak of times. I remember back then any get together with family and/or friends would last all day and night. When I was a kid, a day felt like an eternity. Now- every holiday, birthday party, get together/party is over in a few short hours- if that. Everyone too busy staring at their phone and has somewhere else to be. Things will never go back. I feel sorry for the people that will never experience growing up like that
Where did it all go? This was my city, my home, my heart. All of these places were the backdrop to my life in 1987. That year I lived in a fifth floor walk up on the corner of Perry and West Fourth - my studio looked out over the rooftops of the West Village. We all steered ourselves across town by the sight of the twin towers - a sort of compass point that never was out of sight. I was a freelance illustrator, mostly children’s books - but how I loved getting uptown to drop off my sketches at Children’s TV Workshop, or walking over to the Henson Studios… The cabs, the old Times Square, rattling buses and the smell of the subway on a steamy summer night - thank you for reminding me. Everything is changed now - including me. My NYC no longer exists.
@@SirWilliamDeHooton - my husband and I decided to change everything in our lives in 2015. Bought a derelict stone schoolhouse in rural northwestern Ireland,, sold all that we owned - and never looked back.
@@SirWilliamDeHooton I have never met anyone before who “grew up on Malta!” How cool is this?! It’s too tempting to look over my shoulder - but honestly, I prefer to look FORWARD. The city I loved,,and the younger years I spent there - are both deep in the rear view. I miss so much - but love the adventure of walking into the “next.”
I lived there in 1963 and '64 at 25th and Madison Ave. Across the street from Madison Square Park in the long gone Madison Square Hotel on the 5th floor. We were from Nashville, Tn. living there while my dad was an electrician working on construction of The New York World's Fair. He and I went there. Not sure why he didn't take the whole family, except my youngest brother was just a baby, so that probably had a lot to do with it. I'm 70 now, and I have a hard time remembering what I had for breakfast this morning, but I STILL have so many vivid memories, that all come back, crystal clear, when I see film like this.
@Adam Hayden stfu classic was a lot better your boujee and people weren’t just playing on they videogames for hours and friends playing outside with them everyday so get yo I like today better than the old days to history class
Who else felt the feeling of excitement you got when the teacher just rolled in the TV/VCR CART into the classroom, and hits the lights-the second that music hit, and narrators voices started?!?
Mr. Brady Appolon yessssss! Classroom air conditioner (window unit-hahaha) blowin full force, writin a note and passin it to your girl all on the down, tryin not to get caught. Those were the days, homie. Those were the days.
@zulutgseta8276 each tower could hold 60,000+ at any given moment, along with generating billions upon billions in revenue, so if your goal is to cause as much harm as possible, they were the GOLD STANDARD of a target. They even had the shock value with their height
The 80's was a decade of hope, optimism, combined with a can do attitude! I was so lucky to have been a teenager during that decade, which we will never see the likes of again.
Ironically people are losing their hopes as the technology and productivity has long developed since then. There must be something wrong in the modern world.
It was the same.in the 90s. People weren't running up to shake.Your hand as a stranger. What your experiencing because it sounds like you.!maybe were very young or just experienced something else all together, is viewing through rose.colored glasses. Back in the early 90s nyc smelled like my ass after an upset stomach and the streets were filthy. If you don't believe me just watch something like taxi driver from the 70s it was gross af. In 30 yrs people will say the same about now. It's how it goes.
The 80s was really really enjoyable. Probably the best decade of my life time. Those were the happening years! I'm really happy to have lived through that decade. Women were very fashionable and elegant. They were super sexy at the beaches Kids were breakdancing at every street corner and they were really good. The way people dressed and moved their bodies Movies were spectacular, TV series, cartoons, wrestling, action movies, martial art movies, fantasy, sci fi and mafia movies were all enjoyable to watch. All kinds of good music.....too many to mention. The most important thing about the 80s was the feel. There was a very mysterious strange feel in the air during that decade. There was a bit of that blade runner/ fantasy feel in the air. Something rather futuristic about that decade. Something magical. it was a great feeling. A decade of perfection!
Tbh I wish I was a teen or young adult around the 80s I definitely have so much more fun without social media and smartphones and cancel woke culture bs
This new generation of women (gen Z) seem to dress sloppy & they don't seem to stay in shape as much. Not all are like this but some have unfortunately latched onto the unhealthy "body positive" movement that glorifies obesity. The 80s were all about working out & staying fit like Jane Fonda from what I remember.
Came to NYC in the 60's from my homeland my son was born in 69, daughter in 80. Have a brother came before in the 50's. He told me he fought gangs then to defend himself and the police was so busy they did not knew what to do on that time. NYC has changed since the 70's when buildings were burned down by landlords, crack, heroine epidemic, etc. NYC has changed at the mayoriry are less and others are mayority and crime has increased gangs are coming back again.
@Jesu Gonza Truth is that Lower Manhattan was riddled with crime before the revitalization project came in with the construction of the Twin Towers and the addition of Battery Park City etc. Gentrification and new urban developments allowing young families to work and settle.
well, as a 80s kid myself, I can think of a couple of reasons why u might feel like that. The golden age of capitalism /Commercialism/materialism that permeated everything from fashion to music, food and drink, brought NYC to the forefront of international attention, and of course MTV. Hence, the NY skyline is hardwired into our consciousness for ever.
Helen Keller 2.0 That is the other side. Today it is *not* much different. There is still poverty, drugs and crime wherever you go. Not crack but Meth instead etc.
Nowadays NYC has a pretty bad heroin epidemic much like in the 70's, but now it's laced with deadly fentanyl. Seems like drugs and crime are rolling through in waves like a fashion show. After gentrification NYC has become prohibitively expensive for the average working person, and rents have risen to ridiculous levels for "whole in the wall" sized apartments.
Not. It was much MUCH worse in the 70s and early 80s. Crime was rampant. Hard drug use was rife. The city almost fell apart in the mid 70s. There is a 70s video that shows a meeting where they were trying to sell city bonds to ease the debt burden. NOBODY showed up to buy them. Not a single one was sold.
xXxMartin96xXx read about glyphosate which is an herbicide sprayed on our food - it is toxic to humans even at low doses. There are a lot of chemicals now, more so than in the 70s and 80s I believe. These are not just “buzzwords”. If you check the news recently a man won a case against Monsanto. If something has the potential to cause cancer then there’s a good chance there’s a lot more inflammation in the body as well... There are other ways to protect our foods btw. I like Paul Stamets research on this front but there’s a monopoly on these kind of things in the business world. Huge corporations want to keep things the way they are. More money for them. Also people used to prepare meals, take their time to make food, slow cooked meals, more balanced meals with real ingredients. Once processed foods and fast food was introduced into our lives things became more convenient but definitely not healthy. There’s way too much sugar, fried food, empty carbs in the standard American diet now. I remember when fast food chains like McDonald’s were introduced to other countries, like China and Brazil, who thrived on their own traditional diets and cooking methods, the rates of obesity in young people started to slowly climb. It wasn’t like that before. Poor diets, lack of exercise and too much sitting in front of TVs, videogames and computers ... we live in a different world now.
I was fat in the 80s..obese actually. Im just fat now. Always have been. My father was fat. My mother was fat. My mothers father and wife were fat. My uncle bill was fat. Jerry and rose from down the block were really fat. Drill Sergeant Gonzales was kinda fat. Now that i think about it, his wife was realllly fat. My kids are fat now. Look like 2 dough balls rolling around. I even sound fat when i talk. Fat.
It’s crazy to think this was only ten years before I was born, and the world has changed so much since then. The only thing I’m jealous of the older generations is that they got to experience the 80s and 90s. New York before 9/11 was something else. Not the safest, but it was definitely cooler than it is now.
I was age 7 through 17 years old during the 80s and what a great time that was. Nothing beats those classic video game arcades. It was a fantastic time to be a kid.
Around 1995 was the best time to live on this planet. Cars were good enough, Social Media hadn't made everybody mad, smartphones didn't exist, yet there were portables phones... Technology was good enough back in 1995... Man is too smart for his own good.
As online payment services ramped up and we started using more connectivity I started using 1995 or 95 buried in user ID and email addresses. That year doesn’t represent anything in particular for me but it does represent the year things really started moving to the internet and PCs became accessible to everyone with Windows OS. 20 years later you have everything connected in your pocket. We’re too connected and our brains can’t handle this much stimulus. Anyway point being I guess I agree and I’m pretty sure I used 1995 because it was the point where we shifted.
I visited NYC for the first time this year. I can still remember the first time seeing those skyscrapers that were built 100 years ago and I said to myself "Wow, what a city."
Same here. My husband and I visited for the first time in 2019 and it was everything we dreamed of and more. The energy was incredible. I’ll never forget walking up the steps of the subway station nearest to our hotel in times square and just being in complete awe at the size of the skyscrapers. We wanted to spend every waking moment exploring, walking, taking the subway to different neighborhoods. The only time we were even in the hotel was to sleep. We averaged 30k steps a day and it didn’t even feel like it because it was so thrilling!
I lived and worked in Seattle in the mid-'80s and I recall my excitement when first going to New York. The experience was totally different from expectations. On public transport, especially the underground, people had their heads down and stared at their knees as if scared to look up. I stayed in a hotel and in the evening wanted to walk to the next block to get a newspaper. The doorman insisted I take a taxi - instead of walking 50 metres. "It is too dangerous to walk," he said. Later I was in a vehicle when two drivers jostled each other. At traffic lights, one driver left his vehicle, shot the other driver and returned to his car as if all was normal. I had to make several more trips to New York. My best experience in the USA was taking the Greyhound bus over the Rockies to Canada. You could see the whales spouting out at sea. I promised myself never to return to that ugly, crowded, dangerous place. Now I am happily retired in Thailand after voluntary work in Africa.
I was 11 man were times simpler back then i used to read my viz comic and watch my vhs tapes cartoons or 18 certificate films my parents were not strict in some ways but they did not like me going far from home and staying out late was a no no but in other ways they were great. Miss and love you 1980s. Love you mam and dad💚
Being born, raised and lived in the city, seeing this old film footage brings back some wonderful memories for me. Sadly so much has changed, so many staples of the city are gone. Retail stores gone.
I visited New York in August of 1987. I was 11 and I remember being in the car while we were driving through the city. And Summer in The City by Joe Cocker was playing on the radio. Now I'm 46, sad and fat.
Don't be fooled there's plenty of crime here I witnessed a Puerto Rican guy snatch a girls gold necklace in broad daylight in the Bronx it's Sodom and Gomorrah not wise to be flashy boast of money trust strangers and be wreckless it's an apple alright rotten and full of human worms there's good soul's left but they're mostly angels with scars and you must beware of monsters with friendly faces I met one Dominican girl who took me upstate to a guy's house she was robbing for 6 months! She threatened to have people hurt him if he didn't hand over his check and left him with nothing poor guy couldn't send money to his mother and children to his country I could see his ribs his fridge was empty and when I asked how he got by he said his co-workers gave him food I talked some sense into him and he dropped that bitch oh yeah and the women here are ruthless they will take you for all you have and laugh at your pain with their twin male demons violating in the 5 boroughs
I visited New York around this time as well. I was amazed. It’s definitely the city that never sleeps. I remember seeing the Twin Towers, looked up and my neck just went back as far as it could. I remember the language, and the “city”, and the “village”. I saw a robbery in real time in Brooklyn and it blew me away. They chased the guy and held him down until the cops came, yelling, “we take care of our own here on Chauncey!” I will never forget that. My spirit, as with others, was crushed on 9/11, but that was the day I was introduced to Holy Spirit, and got closer to God. So something great came out of it. I have not been back since, and not sure if I ever will. So much has changed. Godspeed to NYC
Fantastic documentary! Thanks for uploading. I recall visiting the Pennsylvania Hotel in 2015. At that time, my sister and I were students and had no money to sleep in another hotel. The Pennsylvania was the cheapest option, so we went for it, not knowing that it was such a legendary hotel. It’s so sad they decided to get rid of it. I’m grateful we got to visit it before it was closed down for good.
This was only 34 years ago, yet seems like 100. I will always cherish that I got to grow up in the 80s. It really was the best decade. It was the perfect combination of “technically advanced enough”, but not COMPLETELY taken over by technology. People still had to actually interact with one another. We are losing our humanity more & more every second. Technology....”Don’t worry I got you. I’m gonna’ make everything soooo much better. Just wait until my son A.I. arrives.”
Dude, I just had an intense self-conversation in which I used your exact words. The very reason you mentioned, that it was already technologically developed but not too developed, was the charm of that period in world history. I'm so glad to have grown up in the 80s.
I love these 80's documentaries, it's the closest thing to a real time machine. Back to a time when life was fun no smartphones no social media no reality tv and people were authentic.
I recommend looking up Nelson Sullivan on youtube and you will see all of his 80's videos of living in nyc and going out. Areas of the city looked like a war zone.
Central Park is possibly the best idea any city planner ever had at any point in time. I mean, you're in the middle of everything, and you wouldn't know it until you left.
In 1987 I was 23 and living in Brooklyn , one word for it back then . Fast paced , well okay that's two words . It is definitely not for the faint of heart . Lots to see and do ,especially at a young age . I think it really is a young person's city . I did my running up and down in NYC , worked for NYCT for a little over 30 years and finally retired in 2019 . Now at 58 and living in the Lehigh Valley I seek out a more relaxed pace . I will always love New York , I experienced much there , some good ,some bad , but overall a valuable learning experience .
I was 30 then and it was a great time to be in NY. Fast paced yes, fun, yes. Now I am in a slower paced environment also and really enjoy that. I agree it’s a great city for the young and also for the rich who have people do a lot of stuff for them.
Alot of my family members have lived and worked in New York for about 30 years. Now all moved to the Lehigh valley or Warren and Sussex county. My father moved to Bethlehem, I lived in Easton for a few years. Love the valley! Great mix of people! Hope you enjoy it!
Yep.. I hear exactly what you're saying. I live in the western section of Queens right near the border of Brooklyn.. I'm not much younger than you and I'm definitely looking to flee this place and move to a small town.. You spend half your life in traffic and then you spend a half hour looking for a parking spot when you get home from work.. Crazy.. I'm thinking maybe Vermont or rode Island, somewhere far from the hustle and bustle..
33:50 The song is called El Carnavalito (El Humauaqueño) and that is from South America. Composer is Edmundo Porteño Zaldívar from Argentina. Nice documentary. Thanks for uploading it. This is a true time machine.
I love how they only showed the yuppie area’s ,at this time New York was hell drugs, crime, poverty, prostitution etc. It was everywhere in Brooklyn queens Bronx SI that was really what New York was bro
I was turning 6 when this piece of video history was originally recorded! My section of The Bronx was predominantly working class Hispanics, Blacks, and Eurocentric people who got little to no recognition for keeping NYC afloat! Outsiders were too obsessed with the negative aspects Hollywood was peddling about our fair city. Meanwhile, the country only loved us when The Twin Towers were pulverized. What hypocrites....🇵🇷🇺🇸😎🤔
I was born in 87 but in London. Never been NYC, but ny older sister went there twice, one of those times she was there for a month, doing a magazine internship. The way she described it, I felt the excitement from her, especially when I read her notes that she had to do, to document her magazine internship for her uni course at the time. And in a different way, I feel an excited nolstagia from this video.
I used to love NY af. Now it feels like a dystopian realm. Billions of tons of grey concrete, extreme noise everywhere, ridiculous prices, a subway full of lunatics, and the housing crisis.
More innocent crack innocent coke and more innocent kingpins on every block and more innocent gangs and more innocent violence lol I ficking love it though
@batonbeauty Definitely the peak era! Did you ever go to the Krispy Kreme near the plaza entrance? Were you displaced when they renovated the plaza tiles from grey to reddish brown?
Having grown up in the 80's/early 90's I have this set image of New York in my head. When I visited in 2018 it was completely different from how I imagined it.. More gentrified, more modern architecture, less crime and, dare I say it.. Less character!
It’s great to be able to walk anywhere in the city at 3am and feel virtually safe. Not have to worry about being shot from a stray bullet, and not have to see junkies, destroyed buildings, hookers, and abandoned lots everywhere.
It wasn't strange for people to just strike up conversation with surrounding strangers like it is now. Phones did make people less social. Who would thought
But there was a phone on every desk in every office in all those buildings we’re seeing in this footage. It certainly wasn’t a phone free world, just because we were decades away from the technology we have today.
@@tracydanneo That is certainly true. By phone I specifically meant “smartphone,” in the sense that everyone is there in the present moment. Smartphones today are in everyone’s pocket and serve to constantly hijack everyone’s attention, which I think does more harm than good. It’s funny that something supposedly invented to connect us more has, in my opinion, most certainly separated us.
Reading the comments, it was as if I studied the history of the USA of the 80s, there was a time when I dreamed of living in this great country, namely in New York, I even learned English, but time passed, study, work and life distracted me from the American dream, and English was useful for watching Hollywood films without dubbing! Greetings from Siberia to all New Yorkers!
Flaco Fausto it was ALWAYS the first thing I did whenever I visited NYC, to hang out all day in the towers, the shops below and even the roof outside. I lost all of my pictures in a house fire 1998, as if...
I was a club kid back in the late 80s early 90s with a vibrant dance scene and interesting people.I was there this past weekend. It's now for rich people and tourists.
I had some friends from here in Dallas TX that ran round with St. James and Michael Alec! Finally met St. James a few year ago.. funny and great guy! That would have been a fun time for clubbing!
1987 was a fantastic year. The music, fashion, films on VHS, ect. Here in the U.K., it was a happy time as a child. I’ve been to New York and it was a great place to visit.
@@tygersflowerz 1991 as the true end of the 80s ... interesting thought. It could even fit somewhat politically: The Soviet Union ended existing in late December 1991. So yeah....
1989 - 1992 I was attending parsons school of design and working there as well. I got the benefit of free tuition! I moved to NYC at the end of 1981 and lived there until 1994. Although I'm from Miami, my heart will always belong to New York. Living there gave me savvy and taught me so much. If I could afford it, I'd move back in a New York minute 😂❤
So sad that the NYC seen in this classic footage no longer exists. Back then when we were living/working in Manhattan, we never imagined that NYC would degenerate into what it has tragically become today. Thankful we lived there back then. It was great!
It was a perfect Sunday on September 9th 2001, driving in my car right by The World Trade Center waiting for the light to change green, I looked up through my sunroof and gave a good look to those amazing buildings never knowing that was going to be the last time I saw the world trade center....Yes that was two days before nine eleven happened......
Matt Polzkill a month after, your comment. Looks like more people agree with him rather than your dumb ass....would he still be considered a nutcake if millions of people agreed with him? Would you at that point in time come to realize that he’s not crazy and that you’re just dumb and gullible?
Just went down a rabbit hole of figuring out who the guy was that wrote most of these songs. His name was Craig Palmer, and he composed all kinds of music, but was well known for this kind of jazzy, industrial music featured on news broadcasts, documentaries, etc....We know all of our favorite bands from the late 70s and 80s, but talented guys like Craig were tucked away in California recording studios, behind the scenes, making music that we could never put a face to, but that everyone was hearing on their commemorative Super Bowl films. I am a hobby musician and amateur music historian. I enjoy collecting old music gear from the time period this video was made in. Things like this are incredibly interesting to me, and maybe this little tidbit was for you. Maybe not! That's all.
Been there countless times every summer during the 70s and 80s to visit family on Findlay Avenue, South Bronx, and I still say they were VERY exciting times. 😅
My parents took me to NYC every summer between 1984 and 2001. I didn’t stop going in 2001 because of 9/11, I stopped going because I was college age by then and the trips finances became my responsibility. I have not been since but to this day it remains in my mind an unbelievably magical place. My best childhood memories are of Manhattan in the summertime. And of course I’m grateful to have seen the city from the top of the south tower of the WTC
@@first-classkiki4evaah yes, we should always focus on all of the negative things. Maybe we should start remembering the past only negatively, no need to remember the positive things. Right?
@@PU8698, Okay so I guess we should just focus on the good thing of the past. Well that's great and all of doing those kinds of things. So then why does my decade the 2010s never get any of that positivity? Why is it getting so much hate to as far as seven years ago when we weren't even halfway through the 2010s yet? Is it because that the decade had just happened and that we're still feeling the effects of it right now? Well I mean that's kinda true. But then what's the difference between 2011 and 2021. It's a 10 year gap so there must be a big difference between those years right? And it think this happens everytime we go into a new decade. All decades before the past one get positive received and then the one that just happened gets bashed hard until halfway through the current decade. Don't believe me well look at the 2000s. Around the year 2009 up to around the years 2013 or 2014 maybe there seems to be a lot of comments both in the forums of Wikipedia and on RUclips that used to bash the 2000s a lot with a lot of people calling it "the worst decade ever" even though you can call every decade the best or worst decade ever since it's after all it's subjective. But around the mid 2010s something changed. The people that grew up in the 2000s well grew up and there seems to be a lot of nostalgia from those groups of people that grew up in that decade. And over time people seem to bash it much less than usual. This is called rosy retrospection or nostalgia bias by the way. Don't get me wrong though there are people who still don't like the 2000s which for them is fine. But it goes to show that over time the past decade can be grown on people. I expect the same to happen with the 2010s. The people who grew up in the 2010s (like me) will be grown up adults and will have a heavy amount of nostalgia for that decade due to the fact that they must've had a fun time in the decade and swiping off the bad things of it. This is another one of the elements of rosy retrospection/nostalgia bias. There will still be people who will still hate the 2010s which is fine. But more people will be accepting the 2010s for what it was. And this is not just catered to the 2000s nor the 2010s either. The 1990s, 1980s, 1970s, 1960s, 1950s, and so on must've had the same elements of this cycle as well with people not accepting the past decade for what it was until around halfway through that current decade.
Now what about the 2020s however? Well this cycle will also affect the 2020s and future decade as well. Now before you say "but the 2020s suck and 2020 and 2021 sucks for having covid and we're living in bad times aren't we" well let me tell you this. Rosy retrospection is a double edged sword. It can allow you to look past all of the negatives of past decades and accept it as simpler times. But it can also allow you to be very naitive about the really bad stuff that happened which if they happened you would just say "well that was only a small problem the times were simpler no matter what" and would just make your perspective on things of the present kinda change. It can make even the smallest of problems to cause you to hate the present day for it. And for the past when such problems in the present were way worse back then would only just make you thing "eh it could've been worse". So with this in mind you yourself will be just swapping all of the negatives of the pandemic under the rug and just looking at all of the positives instead in around 5 to 10 years time. This is what rosy retrospective does. As does the old saying goes "We don’t realize we are in the best of times till it’s over". And I mean if people can look back at the freaking 1930s and 1940s as great times even though it had the worst economic depression of the last century and the worst war in human history then I mean people will foundly look back at the covid-19 pandemic positively and still be native about it which is fine since it's all apart of our nature and our biology and that's the entire point of rosy retrospection/nostalgia bias right? Also before I go there is another term for this call the golden age fallacy because there are a lot of terms for this phenomenon in this one subject.
As a Brooklynite myself, one word to describe NYC during the eighties would be WILD! I'll never forget the club scenes, block parties, random crimes, hip-hop, and the authentic nitty-gritty culture! Most of the gentrification and phony outsiders have changed and ruined the authenticity of the Big Apple in my opinion.
It makes me so happy to see all these comments of other people who are just as obsessed with trying to go back in time through old footage, I can almost touch it and I wasn’t even there. It feels like an old beloved memory. Take me back 🥲
The dopamine rush has hollowed out both meaningful human interaction and turned people into validation addicts. The same exact thing that happens to the mind of a drug addict, just a different vice.
@Robert Gardea That too. Even commercialism activates the same pleasure centers of the brain through dopamine release. It is a disease when people think that buying more will give meaning to their lives. I've never once in my life spend money on stupidity and felt better for it. It's one of those things were you're telling yourself in your head that buying this crap (whatever it is) will make you happy, and it never does, you're just filled with a sense of "Why did I waste my money on this crap?"
This was great! The first time I went to NYC was around 87-88 for a class trip. I was looking for the original "I ❤ New York" commercial and then this video came up. They picked great people to interview. It would be nice to do a follow up and find out what happened to all those New Yorkers!!
I'm Argentinean. I never went to the United States in my life. But I can't stop watching New York videos from the '80s /' 90s. As if in my past life I had lived there. The nostalgia it generates in me is really crazy. And I'm only 25 years old...
I was obsessed that I made my parents take me in 1992. I was in the sixth grade. I had no idea of the bad parts. I thought it was just like all the movies i saw filmed in nyc. I told my parents I was moving there! Wtf was I thinking?!
This was a better era, even despite what seemed like half the city looking like a war zone. No smartphones, people weren't confused about their gender... Yes there were economic issues, AIDS, crack, etc. but there was great success too, and people were just nicer, more cooperative and less polarized due to having common values, common culture, etc.
This video made me so... happy. Nostalgia for something I never touched or experienced back then, but always felt - courtesy of film, TV, music, news media, pop culture. Even when I go to NYC now as an adult, I see it through this romanticised lens. I think I love NYC for the idea of it, more than what it is. And boy oh boy... I'm so grateful that I can remember life before cellphones.
Wesson Steel AOC is one of the few politicians who gives a flying fuck about average people. She didn’t approve of Amazon having a headquarters in New York because all it would’ve done is drive up the cost of living even more, plus the city was planning on PAYING them, using your tax dollars, even though they are a giant corporation. As for Cuomo and DeBlasio, they are just your standard run of the mill corporatist neoliberals.
They convinced me. I'm moving to 1987 NYC.
You wouldn’t have wanted to live in the City back then..
@Zapato42 Sizeshoe42 High Crime.
Build a time machine
@@DragosRoute66 why?
@@Gevixel: It sounds like you might have a problem with diversity. You are definitely not NYC-friendly and would probably be more at ease with those who choose to live far away from the 5 boroughs, segregating themselves from the mix of cultures and preferring to live with the bears in the woods. People with that mentality are the ones that make this city an angry, hostile, miserable place to live. New York City is accepting of ALL people regardless of race, culture, wealth, sexual orientation, etc. I am extremely proud to be a Native New Yorker!
i cant believe im searching for this in 2020. im so obsessed with 70s 80s 90s time. god i wanna travel back in time
Well the 2020's are a total failure
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I hear ya. I was born in 68 and NYC was my home thru the 70's, 80s and 90s. But my parents longed for the 50s and 60s and my grandparents the 30s and 40s. So who knows. I will say that NYC was cool during this time though. But we still had many of the same problems and bs then as we have today.
this is me currently!!!!
Who's here in April 2024? I love old images and videos, life was simpler and not as evil. When I see such videos I get such bitter sweet memories,I love it but I wana cry too,the nostalgia hurts so much!
Me too man I'm with you thank God for RUclips the close we will ever get to a time machine I was 14 life was so much better sure there were issues but nyc had grit character and love that this trash of a city does not have today .this city is an overpriced overcrowded gentrification mall
I feel you :))
@@dominiceugenio3694 Not the big apple but the big shit
June 2024. I have never been there, but I still want to go there. Even with all the shit going down there.
What about the crack epidemic, rise of materialism and aids? The Cold War was also still a thing. American Psycho tells you 80s yuppie greed is bad and even rich people' lives are superficial and hollow.
80’s and 90’s were the peak of times. I remember back then any get together with family and/or friends would last all day and night. When I was a kid, a day felt like an eternity. Now- every holiday, birthday party, get together/party is over in a few short hours- if that. Everyone too busy staring at their phone and has somewhere else to be. Things will never go back. I feel sorry for the people that will never experience growing up like that
NYC is hell on earth
It’s awful
Pretty much. The last of the golden ages of the country.
Great times
I got lucky to be born in 87.
I live for old documentaries like this. The music. The footage. Everything.
The music iis perfect
I like the Music
you live for good
same dude
me too.....so calm
I miss the overwhelming optimism of the 1980's
which is funny when you think about it, considering that there was this pervasive sense that nuclear annihilation was right around the corner.
same here. I was trying to explain that to my kids.
Bc there were no social media
@@sword_of_damocle5 " was"??... Oh you fatalist! If you can drop it here you implode it everyone! Cheers from the electric car
Optimism move in China.....
I was a teen in the 80s and took many trips to NYC. This documentary brings back so many great memories. 😊
I was a teenager too! Sure do miss them 80's.
@@jonburrows2684 indeed!
Born raised In The city that definitely doesn't sleep,I love ny ,yet I do need sleep
Hi🤗I was 17,18,19 into 20 great memories gone but never forgotten💗💗💗💗💗💗💗💗💗💗💗
@@casualviewer8792 I couldn’t agree with you more! 😊
Where did it all go?
This was my city, my home, my heart. All of these places were the backdrop to my life in 1987. That year I lived in a fifth floor walk up on the corner of Perry and West Fourth - my studio looked out over the rooftops of the West Village. We all steered ourselves across town by the sight of the twin towers - a sort of compass point that never was out of sight. I was a freelance illustrator, mostly children’s books - but how I loved getting uptown to drop off my sketches at Children’s TV Workshop, or walking over to the Henson Studios…
The cabs, the old Times Square, rattling buses and the smell of the subway on a steamy summer night - thank you for reminding me.
Everything is changed now - including me.
My NYC no longer exists.
@@SirWilliamDeHooton - my husband and I decided to change everything in our lives in 2015. Bought a derelict stone schoolhouse in rural northwestern Ireland,, sold all that we owned - and never looked back.
@@SirWilliamDeHooton I have never met anyone before who “grew up on Malta!” How cool is this?!
It’s too tempting to look over my shoulder - but honestly, I prefer to look FORWARD. The city I loved,,and the younger years I spent there - are both deep in the rear view. I miss so much - but love the adventure of walking into the “next.”
It died when they didn’t rebuild the Twins. When they built that generic glass garbage instead that could have been in Shanghai or Moscow
This was a lovely read, I could imagine it like I was there, thank you!
I lived there in 1963 and '64 at 25th and Madison Ave. Across the street from Madison Square Park in the long gone Madison Square Hotel on the 5th floor. We were from Nashville, Tn. living there while my dad was an electrician working on construction of The New York World's Fair. He and I went there. Not sure why he didn't take the whole family, except my youngest brother was just a baby, so that probably had a lot to do with it. I'm 70 now, and I have a hard time remembering what I had for breakfast this morning, but I STILL have so many vivid memories, that all come back, crystal clear, when I see film like this.
I didn't even exist, but i miss those days
Me too 💔😭
@WesRBLX I was born in 1995 march first and i really miss to early 2000s and would love to see life was compared to 2020s
Same sis
Same😭😭😭🥺🥺🥺
@Adam Hayden stfu classic was a lot better your boujee and people weren’t just playing on they videogames for hours and friends playing outside with them everyday so get yo I like today better than the old days to history class
Who else felt the feeling of excitement you got when the teacher just rolled in the TV/VCR CART into the classroom, and hits the lights-the second that music hit, and narrators voices started?!?
Especially on a Friday or half day😊😉
Mr. Brady Appolon yessssss! Classroom air conditioner (window unit-hahaha) blowin full force, writin a note and passin it to your girl all on the down, tryin not to get caught. Those were the days, homie. Those were the days.
Aww man.Good times.😏
Knowing the most work you'll do that day is staying awake, and maybe some "Fill in the Blanks" 😏😌😔😴😴
Claus FREY you know that. Maybe have to hand out some graded papers for the teacher, the last ten minutes of the day.
I miss the 80's! Best decade ever!
The 90s weren't bad either.....
RIP to the iconic Towers themselves and of course to all those who lost their lives or loved ones 🙏
Yeah. Y the twins as a target 🤔. Y not a statue liberty 🤔
still can't believe what those poor people were put through on that day just trying to make a living still makes me cry to this day
@@zulutgseta8276cause people work in the world trade centre and not in the statue of liberty
@zulutgseta8276 each tower could hold 60,000+ at any given moment, along with generating billions upon billions in revenue, so if your goal is to cause as much harm as possible, they were the GOLD STANDARD of a target. They even had the shock value with their height
Also to all the million gay men fighting AIDS at time time
The 80's was a decade of hope, optimism, combined with a can do attitude! I was so lucky to have been a teenager during that decade, which we will never see the likes of again.
Now we have a lot of hope. Many teenagers even believe they’ll live forever with technology 😂
Jerry Cooper you realize there’s absolutely no way I can delete someone else’s comment on someone else’s video right ?
@@dvderek Okay then! it must be the algorithm. My apologies Derek.
Jerry Cooper yessirski
Ironically people are losing their hopes as the technology and productivity has long developed since then. There must be something wrong in the modern world.
It was another time in another century, but after 2001 it feels more like another world.
Yes it does!
@@d.d8381 sure did and much harder and stressful
people all over changed ...now people have entourages and when alone are glued to their phones to avoid contact with strangers ...funny to watch
It was the same.in the 90s. People weren't running up to shake.Your hand as a stranger. What your experiencing because it sounds like you.!maybe were very young or just experienced something else all together, is viewing through rose.colored glasses. Back in the early 90s nyc smelled like my ass after an upset stomach and the streets were filthy. If you don't believe me just watch something like taxi driver from the 70s it was gross af. In 30 yrs people will say the same about now. It's how it goes.
@@scentlessapprentice88 nah society was better back then
It's such a different world now that this might as well be a documentary about the charms of living in ancient Egypt.
The 80s was really really enjoyable.
Probably the best decade of my life time.
Those were the happening years!
I'm really happy to have lived through that decade.
Women were very fashionable and elegant. They were super sexy at the beaches
Kids were breakdancing at every street corner and they were really good.
The way people dressed and moved their bodies
Movies were spectacular, TV series, cartoons, wrestling, action movies, martial art movies, fantasy, sci fi and mafia movies were all enjoyable to watch.
All kinds of good music.....too many to mention.
The most important thing about the 80s was the feel. There was a very mysterious strange feel in the air during that decade. There was a bit of that blade runner/ fantasy feel in the air. Something rather futuristic about that decade. Something magical. it was a great feeling.
A decade of perfection!
capital of earth
Tbh I wish I was a teen or young adult around the 80s I definitely have so much more fun without social media and smartphones and cancel woke culture bs
You’re so lucky !
WELL SAID! I MISS MY OLE NY..
This new generation of women (gen Z) seem to dress sloppy & they don't seem to stay in shape as much. Not all are like this but some have unfortunately latched onto the unhealthy "body positive" movement that glorifies obesity. The 80s were all about working out & staying fit like Jane Fonda from what I remember.
There is just something about New York City, especially in the 1980s.
Was it the abandoned buildings everywhere outside Manhattan? Or possibly the crack cocaine epidemic? Definitely something about NYC at that time.
DrummerJacob Where outside of Manhattan? Today you have a crack epidemic too, so?
Came to NYC in the 60's from my homeland my son was born in 69, daughter in 80. Have a brother came before in the 50's. He told me he fought gangs then to defend himself and the police was so busy they did not knew what to do on that time. NYC has changed since the 70's when buildings were burned down by landlords, crack, heroine epidemic, etc. NYC has changed at the mayoriry are less and others are mayority and crime has increased gangs are coming back again.
@Jesu Gonza Truth is that Lower Manhattan was riddled with crime before the revitalization project came in with the construction of the Twin Towers and the addition of Battery Park City etc. Gentrification and new urban developments allowing young families to work and settle.
well, as a 80s kid myself, I can think of a couple of reasons why u might feel like that. The golden age of capitalism /Commercialism/materialism that permeated everything from fashion to music, food and drink, brought NYC to the forefront of international attention, and of course MTV. Hence, the NY skyline is hardwired into our consciousness for ever.
Life was so much simpler in the 80’s. We don’t realize we are in the best of times till it’s over.
Yes it does but no one can say this covid is the best of times EVER.
we'll be saying that about today 20 years on
Enjoy 2020 because its goin to be way worse soon sis
that skynet shit is coming believe it or not
@@MOUMOUK
I'm afraid you are right on that one
I don't live in NY but i grew up in the 80's and, everywhere, in every city, it was just a better time.
I love everything in the '80s. That was a wonderful time. I wish I could take the time machine back to the '80s immediately!
I have a time travel machine check my channel
Where,s Jerry, George, Elaine, Kramer &.....Neumann?! 😂 Lol.
Good luck not being the victim of a crime back then lmao
New York City in the 80's was amazing! The vibe, the culture, the energy, the realness and affordability.
Ceo founder the crack epidemic. The violence. The poverty.
Helen Keller 2.0 That is the other side. Today it is *not* much different. There is still poverty, drugs and crime wherever you go. Not crack but Meth instead etc.
dvchel lmao today is so much fucking better at least in NYC, you don't know what youre talking about
@@dvchel It is DRAMATICALLY different. 1500-2000+ murders a YEAR during the 1980s to less than 300 a year now is a HUGE difference.
Nowadays NYC has a pretty bad heroin epidemic much like in the 70's, but now it's laced with deadly fentanyl. Seems like drugs and crime are rolling through in waves like a fashion show. After gentrification NYC has become prohibitively expensive for the average working person, and rents have risen to ridiculous levels for "whole in the wall" sized apartments.
This video rolled into class on a cart w/ the TV on top that had VHS player built-in...
Absolutely. 😂
Got a great laugh at this post, thanks. Fond memories of those damn TVs
Love me a VCR
My favorite time in class. Lights off, video on, nap time.
I started school in the 70's, so I remember when the cart had a 16mm movie projector on top before the switch to video.
No social media, ugh I love it. ❤❤❤😍😍😍
If people born in the 1920s watched this they would be proud of what the city had became. Anyone born in 1987 is probably wondering wtf happened
😄 I was born in 87. It was cool to watch this video.
Not. It was much MUCH worse in the 70s and early 80s. Crime was rampant. Hard drug use was rife.
The city almost fell apart in the mid 70s. There is a 70s video that shows a meeting where they were trying to
sell city bonds to ease the debt burden. NOBODY showed up to buy them. Not a single one was sold.
I was Born April 87s...
People were so much thinner back then.
it was all the cocaine
Excess processed foods, fast food, GMOs, toxic pesticides... yay
xXxMartin96xXx read about glyphosate which is an herbicide sprayed on our food - it is toxic to humans even at low doses. There are a lot of chemicals now, more so than in the 70s and 80s I believe. These are not just “buzzwords”. If you check the news recently a man won a case against Monsanto. If something has the potential to cause cancer then there’s a good chance there’s a lot more inflammation in the body as well... There are other ways to protect our foods btw. I like Paul Stamets research on this front but there’s a monopoly on these kind of things in the business world. Huge corporations want to keep things the way they are. More money for them.
Also people used to prepare meals, take their time to make food, slow cooked meals, more balanced meals with real ingredients. Once processed foods and fast food was introduced into our lives things became more convenient but definitely not healthy.
There’s way too much sugar, fried food, empty carbs in the standard American diet now.
I remember when fast food chains like McDonald’s were introduced to other countries, like China and Brazil, who thrived on their own traditional diets and cooking methods, the rates of obesity in young people started to slowly climb. It wasn’t like that before.
Poor diets, lack of exercise and too much sitting in front of TVs, videogames and computers ... we live in a different world now.
I was fat in the 80s..obese actually. Im just fat now. Always have been. My father was fat. My mother was fat. My mothers father and wife were fat. My uncle bill was fat. Jerry and rose from down the block were really fat. Drill Sergeant Gonzales was kinda fat. Now that i think about it, his wife was realllly fat. My kids are fat now. Look like 2 dough balls rolling around. I even sound fat when i talk. Fat.
@@RonaldRegan314 ksksksk
Damn i really wish we had a 80's or 90's inspired GTA in NYC!
Would be dope.
gta 3 is the closest you’ll get
Project Americas. ;) Would be amazing on next-gen. 2022 can't come quick enough.
Pastello_666 Yesssss
Play Driver Parallel Lines. Then you'll know.
It’s crazy to think this was only ten years before I was born, and the world has changed so much since then. The only thing I’m jealous of the older generations is that they got to experience the 80s and 90s. New York before 9/11 was something else. Not the safest, but it was definitely cooler than it is now.
Everything before 9/11 was something else. The world and America changed after 9/11.
I was age 7 through 17 years old during the 80s and what a great time that was. Nothing beats those classic video game arcades. It was a fantastic time to be a kid.
5 years later, home alone 2 came out
MR SLAV!!! what are u doing here dude!?
And that was just as shit as the first one.
@@scottpepper7028 I think you're shit cause you never ever had a great childhood like any other billions of people had when this movie was released.
@@purpleguycraft wrong I had a fantastic childhood,but the film's are still shit..
PurpleGuyCraft Home Alone 1 was good but 2 was shit.
Around 1995 was the best time to live on this planet. Cars were good enough, Social Media hadn't made everybody mad, smartphones didn't exist, yet there were portables phones... Technology was good enough back in 1995... Man is too smart for his own good.
I agree that social media has made people crazy angry all the time .
@@user-ms1ie3jn1l and lazy
Don'tMessWithTXandria LoL yeah like what we’re doing Right Now ;P
As online payment services ramped up and we started using more connectivity I started using 1995 or 95 buried in user ID and email addresses. That year doesn’t represent anything in particular for me but it does represent the year things really started moving to the internet and PCs became accessible to everyone with Windows OS. 20 years later you have everything connected in your pocket. We’re too connected and our brains can’t handle this much stimulus. Anyway point being I guess I agree and I’m pretty sure I used 1995 because it was the point where we shifted.
Fucking nerds just can't can't leave anything thing alone
I visited NYC for the first time this year. I can still remember the first time seeing those skyscrapers that were built 100 years ago and I said to myself "Wow, what a city."
Same here. My husband and I visited for the first time in 2019 and it was everything we dreamed of and more. The energy was incredible.
I’ll never forget walking up the steps of the subway station nearest to our hotel in times square and just being in complete awe at the size of the skyscrapers. We wanted to spend every waking moment exploring, walking, taking the subway to different neighborhoods. The only time we were even in the hotel was to sleep.
We averaged 30k steps a day and it didn’t even feel like it because it was so thrilling!
I lived and worked in Seattle in the mid-'80s and I recall my excitement when first going to New York. The experience was totally different from expectations. On public transport, especially the underground, people had their heads down and stared at their knees as if scared to look up. I stayed in a hotel and in the evening wanted to walk to the next block to get a newspaper. The doorman insisted I take a taxi - instead of walking 50 metres. "It is too dangerous to walk," he said. Later I was in a vehicle when two drivers jostled each other. At traffic lights, one driver left his vehicle, shot the other driver and returned to his car as if all was normal.
I had to make several more trips to New York. My best experience in the USA was taking the Greyhound bus over the Rockies to Canada. You could see the whales spouting out at sea. I promised myself never to return to that ugly, crowded, dangerous place. Now I am happily retired in Thailand after voluntary work in Africa.
Ring me Bryan
So sounds like you stayed in the Bronx? not Manhattan? I remember it was very violent but by the 1990s Giuliani cleaned up crime very well
I remember when people told me 2003 nyc is the best
SHOT the other driver?
You've lived quite the incredible life my friend! I too wish to retire in Thailand
I was 17 in 87.. What a great time to be a teenager.🤘
I was born that year, still love it and the 90s
Wished I lived back then 😪
I was 11 man were times simpler back then i used to read my viz comic and watch my vhs tapes cartoons or 18 certificate films my parents were not strict in some ways but they did not like me going far from home and staying out late was a no no but in other ways they were great. Miss and love you 1980s. Love you mam and dad💚
@@psychokinesis878me too,i born in 1987,8,24th.
I was 20 years old! Hello from Tyler Texas!
THIS is the New York I grew up in. I miss it dearly.
Back when every neighborhood had its own flavor. Pretty much all of Manhattan south of 96th has been gentrified into little midtown lights.
Same.
@@DarkMatterX1 culture and community commodified. gentrification is THE PITS.
Being born, raised and lived in the city, seeing this old film footage brings back some wonderful memories for me. Sadly so much has changed, so many staples of the city are gone. Retail stores gone.
that borders books that was near the twin towers is long gone
I visited New York in August of 1987. I was 11 and I remember being in the car while we were driving through the city. And Summer in The City by Joe Cocker was playing on the radio. Now I'm 46, sad and fat.
Maybe hobbies could help you overcome sadness
Me too
i'm really out here on quarantine at 4 am watching a 1987 version of a city I've never been to. Wild
Don't be fooled there's plenty of crime here I witnessed a Puerto Rican guy snatch a girls gold necklace in broad daylight in the Bronx it's Sodom and Gomorrah not wise to be flashy boast of money trust strangers and be wreckless it's an apple alright rotten and full of human worms there's good soul's left but they're mostly angels with scars and you must beware of monsters with friendly faces I met one Dominican girl who took me upstate to a guy's house she was robbing for 6 months! She threatened to have people hurt him if he didn't hand over his check and left him with nothing poor guy couldn't send money to his mother and children to his country I could see his ribs his fridge was empty and when I asked how he got by he said his co-workers gave him food I talked some sense into him and he dropped that bitch oh yeah and the women here are ruthless they will take you for all you have and laugh at your pain with their twin male demons violating in the 5 boroughs
Lol same here. Hahaa
Totally wild. And I'm thinking BASE jumping is wild.
This is what's wild.
LAME ASS CASUAL
@@worsteveroh6569 this happened to me a few weeks ago. The crime in nyc is insane
I feel like it’s movie day at school lmao
Brandi Williams right. Lol
I know, right?! I swear the only documentaries they showed in school were dated documentaries from the 80s-90s!
I was in school in the 70s and 80s and the only documentaries they showed then were from the 50s and 60s.
All ya gotta do is not fall asleep and you get an A ..
Brandi Williams lmfao
I was in NYC back in the late 80’s. So much different then today. It was fun back then!
the 80s was my favorite era! i was a senior in HS in 1987. Oh how i miss back in the days.
1980"s: High crime, crack, prostitutes, & the rents were cheap!
I'll take the 80's..
@1134 What part of town you live in son? Cuz my rent is definitely not cheap...
Norcal x14 just go to the hood and you’ll have all that bud
Oh yeah!
You forgot HIV...
lmfao ..i ll take my chances !! would love that cheap rent $500 for 2 bedroom.
The 80s was such a magical time to be alive.
Were*
datdudeCollins Whatever fella.
Yea
Which 80's?
Subverter 1.1 I wasn’t born in the 1880s so the last one.
I visited New York around this time as well. I was amazed. It’s definitely the city that never sleeps. I remember seeing the Twin Towers, looked up and my neck just went back as far as it could. I remember the language, and the “city”, and the “village”. I saw a robbery in real time in Brooklyn and it blew me away. They chased the guy and held him down until the cops came, yelling, “we take care of our own here on Chauncey!” I will never forget that. My spirit, as with others, was crushed on 9/11, but that was the day I was introduced to Holy Spirit, and got closer to God. So something great came out of it. I have not been back since, and not sure if I ever will. So much has changed. Godspeed to NYC
Fantastic documentary! Thanks for uploading. I recall visiting the Pennsylvania Hotel in 2015. At that time, my sister and I were students and had no money to sleep in another hotel. The Pennsylvania was the cheapest option, so we went for it, not knowing that it was such a legendary hotel. It’s so sad they decided to get rid of it. I’m grateful we got to visit it before it was closed down for good.
This was only 34 years ago, yet seems like 100. I will always cherish that I got to grow up in the 80s. It really was the best decade. It was the perfect combination of “technically advanced enough”, but not COMPLETELY taken over by technology. People still had to actually interact with one another. We are losing our humanity more & more every second.
Technology....”Don’t worry I got you. I’m gonna’ make everything soooo much better. Just wait until my son A.I. arrives.”
Dude, I just had an intense self-conversation in which I used your exact words. The very reason you mentioned, that it was already technologically developed but not too developed, was the charm of that period in world history. I'm so glad to have grown up in the 80s.
I AGREE 100 PERCENT
That what’s called technologically developed, now it’s technologically overtaken
Absolutely correct!
Now the far left technocrats have taken over society and destroyed it and we are sitting here trying to pick up the pieces of a broken society.
I love these 80's documentaries, it's the closest thing to a real time machine. Back to a time when life was fun no smartphones no social media no reality tv and people were authentic.
@Daniel Chang ✌✌✌✌✌
@Daniel Chang the 80's would just be too much fun. I definitely take a walk around NYC, Los Angeles and Miami.
I recommend looking up Nelson Sullivan on youtube and you will see all of his 80's videos of living in nyc and going out. Areas of the city looked like a war zone.
я вообще из России, и скажу Вам то же самое !!! сегодня жизнь словно пустышка, а раньше люди были человечнее...
Social media has ruin us all cell phones made everything shit u mean it really has eveeything is too easy for us now
The soundtrack is a masterpiece.
Central Park is possibly the best idea any city planner ever had at any point in time. I mean, you're in the middle of everything, and you wouldn't know it until you left.
1:02 RIP Twin Towers. I got to go up to the observation deck of the South Tower when I was a boy with my father. I miss those day greatly.
I used to meet my mother outside One WTC for lunch!
A shame your elites took it down
Anything from the 80s gives me a happy feeling for some reason.
It was not perfect, but it was a much more positive time. There is way too much hate and division at this time.
@@sandy-ke1kr The division is quite deliberate. Control peoples perception and you control their behaviour.
Same and also the 70's
@@sandy-ke1kr I'd rather experience that than what I have right now
So a cold war makes you happy i guess?
I loved growing up in the 80s, the music and the life back then, the cartoons lol the video games, the food, the prices 😂
Nothing can compare to those days. The 70's and my 2 favorite decades the 80's and the 90's were the best.
There is so much cocaine hidden in this documentary
You were there too?🥄
NOT HIDDEN
You see that, the camera men has a big bag of cocaine in his pocket.
Patience, of course, is a very powerful weapon, but sometimes I start to regret that it is not a firearm
It wasn't hidden cocaine was everywhere
In 1987 I was 23 and living in Brooklyn , one word for it back then . Fast paced , well okay that's two words . It is definitely not for the faint of heart . Lots to see and do ,especially at a young age . I think it really is a young person's city . I did my running up and down in NYC , worked for NYCT for a little over 30 years and finally retired in 2019 . Now at 58 and living in the Lehigh Valley I seek out a more relaxed pace . I will always love New York , I experienced much there , some good ,some bad , but overall a valuable learning experience .
I was 30 then and it was a great time to be in NY. Fast paced yes, fun, yes. Now I am in a slower paced environment also and really enjoy that. I agree it’s a great city for the young and also for the rich who have people do a lot of stuff for them.
Alot of my family members have lived and worked in New York for about 30 years. Now all moved to the Lehigh valley or Warren and Sussex county. My father moved to Bethlehem, I lived in Easton for a few years. Love the valley! Great mix of people! Hope you enjoy it!
Yep.. I hear exactly what you're saying. I live in the western section of Queens right near the border of Brooklyn.. I'm not much younger than you and I'm definitely looking to flee this place and move to a small town.. You spend half your life in traffic and then you spend a half hour looking for a parking spot when you get home from work.. Crazy.. I'm thinking maybe Vermont or rode Island, somewhere far from the hustle and bustle..
What were the twin towers like?
Wish I could join you in Lehigh valley
33:50 The song is called El Carnavalito (El Humauaqueño) and that is from South America. Composer is Edmundo Porteño Zaldívar from Argentina.
Nice documentary. Thanks for uploading it. This is a true time machine.
Yes. Argentina, we know is in South America…
I remember that time when New York was most beautiful city in the world... Love 80s... Love New York❤
new york was dirty and crime ridden in the 80s
looks much cleaner too
Yea but I wish they would quit pilling trash on sidewalks
Staten Island’s most noteworthy feature is a ferry used to leave the island
LMFAOOO
& the city trash behind.
Awwwww that’s so mean but true lol
With your car
And it's free.
I love how they only showed the yuppie area’s ,at this time New York was hell drugs, crime, poverty, prostitution etc. It was everywhere in Brooklyn queens Bronx SI that was really what New York was bro
I know, my first visit there I was called an asshole, and someone spit on someone's face because they wouldn't share food.
💯
That's why I like Manhattan and not the rest of NYC.
苑安雄 New York to people from other countries is skyscrapers in Manhattan, but Brooklyn, Bronx and nasty subway to Americans. Interesting.
I was turning 6 when this piece of video history was originally recorded! My section of The Bronx was predominantly working class Hispanics, Blacks, and Eurocentric people who got little to no recognition for keeping NYC afloat! Outsiders were too obsessed with the negative aspects Hollywood was peddling about our fair city. Meanwhile, the country only loved us when The Twin Towers were pulverized. What hypocrites....🇵🇷🇺🇸😎🤔
I was born in 87 but in London. Never been NYC, but ny older sister went there twice, one of those times she was there for a month, doing a magazine internship. The way she described it, I felt the excitement from her, especially when I read her notes that she had to do, to document her magazine internship for her uni course at the time. And in a different way, I feel an excited nolstagia from this video.
I used to love NY af. Now it feels like a dystopian realm. Billions of tons of grey concrete, extreme noise everywhere, ridiculous prices, a subway full of lunatics, and the housing crisis.
The Optimism of the time is so apparent. A More innocent time.
More innocent crack innocent coke and more innocent kingpins on every block and more innocent gangs and more innocent violence lol I ficking love it though
Ha ha lol can't deny that.
Reagan era
And cocaine.
Definitely not innocent more hardcore
I worked at the World Trade Center Bldg 2 106th floor in 1987, for Shearson Lehman Hutton. ...that was the Best time of my Life!
It wouldn’t have been if a plane struck then. You’re just very lucky it didn’t.
Dojocho name dropping twat
@batonbeauty When was that?
@batonbeauty Definitely the peak era! Did you ever go to the Krispy Kreme near the plaza entrance? Were you displaced when they renovated the plaza tiles from grey to reddish brown?
1987 in NYC was a whole vibe!
If only I was born 30 years earlier 😒😒😒 I would fit in so much, I miss the humanity
Having grown up in the 80's/early 90's I have this set image of New York in my head. When I visited in 2018 it was completely different from how I imagined it.. More gentrified, more modern architecture, less crime and, dare I say it.. Less character!
Still has more character than any other big city in the US. But it's slowly dying.
It’s great to be able to walk anywhere in the city at 3am and feel virtually safe. Not have to worry about being shot from a stray bullet, and not have to see junkies, destroyed buildings, hookers, and abandoned lots everywhere.
@@eppsislike Ehhhh idk. Philadelphia and Boston come pretty close.
@@dustinhiggins710 you’re funny, have you even been to Boston & Philly, & all 5 boroughs?
all about lookism now, not character.
Staten Island is best known for: "We.. um.. we have a ferry"
Ferry with crazy ghetto loud and smelly people. Not clean anymore
Wu - Tang Clan
Rural Italians, lmfao
@@honestabe6841 More than like crazy racists and kkk sects
The borough that is brooklyn suburbs lol
Who knew that just 2 years later, Jason would take Manhattan.
I love you!!! 🤣🤣🤣
I miss the old NYC. it was gritty, fun, electric and it didn't cost anything to freakin' live here!
My family's rent in the Bronx was $375 in 1987.
Fn...A !!
@@user-ms1ie3jn1l That's about $850 in today's money. You can't even get a studio apartment on Long Island for that price anymore.
@@DoomFinger511 😭😂
Yes the air in NY was definitely electric !!! In all boroughs no matter where you went
Dealing with the fact that I missed living in authentic, real times like these is such a heavy burden. Not a phone in sight!!! I’d die for that now.
It wasn't strange for people to just strike up conversation with surrounding strangers like it is now. Phones did make people less social. Who would thought
But there was a phone on every desk in every office in all those buildings we’re seeing in this footage. It certainly wasn’t a phone free world, just because we were decades away from the technology we have today.
@@tracydanneo That is certainly true. By phone I specifically meant “smartphone,” in the sense that everyone is there in the present moment. Smartphones today are in everyone’s pocket and serve to constantly hijack everyone’s attention, which I think does more harm than good. It’s funny that something supposedly invented to connect us more has, in my opinion, most certainly separated us.
Sure not a phone in sight, but with a significantly higher chance of getting mugged or killed...
@@PoundMountain Smartphones have no doubt saved several people lives and kept people save, especially kids. They have their up and downsides.
Back to a time when life was fun no smartphones no social media no reality tv and people were authentic
Reading the comments, it was as if I studied the history of the USA of the 80s, there was a time when I dreamed of living in this great country, namely in New York, I even learned English, but time passed, study, work and life distracted me from the American dream, and English was useful for watching Hollywood films without dubbing! Greetings from Siberia to all New Yorkers!
When I moved to New York the first thing that impressed me was the twin towers, They were magnificent. 😔
Flaco Fausto I really wish they would of built the towers back the same way, or at least two matching newer towers
Flaco Fausto it was ALWAYS the first thing I did whenever I visited NYC, to hang out all day in the towers, the shops below and even the roof outside. I lost all of my pictures in a house fire 1998, as if...
Ahhh fuck to terrorist 😭
We can rebuild them!
Well, we COULD rebuild them, if we had the money for it.
I was a club kid back in the late 80s early 90s with a vibrant dance scene and interesting people.I was there this past weekend. It's now for rich people and tourists.
I was a club kid too.. '83-'86...Danceteria, Berlin, Garage, Limelight...ahhh the days ❤🎧🎶
M'Liss A What about the Roxy in South Bronx?
@@Mhel2023 Limelight. Yes
I had some friends from here in Dallas TX that ran round with St. James and Michael Alec! Finally met St. James a few year ago.. funny and great guy! That would have been a fun time for clubbing!
@@Mhel2023 Limelight I went to.
1987 was a fantastic year. The music, fashion, films on VHS, ect. Here in the U.K., it was a happy time as a child. I’ve been to New York and it was a great place to visit.
What a great year. I was 13. So happy I grew up in the 80's. For me best decade for everything. Music, Movies, Video games. Amazing time
@@tygersflowerz 1991 as the true end of the 80s ... interesting thought. It could even fit somewhat politically: The Soviet Union ended existing in late December 1991. So yeah....
Yeh I was born in 87 but still love the 80a and early 90s video games
I was born in 1987 so I don't remember 80's at all, for me the best years were 1996-2002, I would give anything to go back to that time
I was 13 too
Kids in history class prob watched this half asleep and we’re here interested asf lmao
True :p
Lmaoo true
1989 - 1992 I was attending parsons school of design and working there as well. I got the benefit of free tuition! I moved to NYC at the end of 1981 and lived there until 1994. Although I'm from Miami, my heart will always belong to New York. Living there gave me savvy and taught me so much. If I could afford it, I'd move back in a New York minute 😂❤
did u ever step foot inside those towers
So sad that the NYC seen in this classic footage no longer exists. Back then when we were living/working in Manhattan, we never imagined that NYC would degenerate into what it has tragically become today. Thankful we lived there back then. It was great!
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It was a perfect Sunday on September 9th 2001, driving in my car right by The World Trade Center waiting for the light to change green, I looked up through my sunroof and gave a good look to those amazing buildings never knowing that was going to be the last time I saw the world trade center....Yes that was two days before nine eleven happened......
Wow
I was thinking about how 9/11 was closer to 1987. Thank it is to right now.
Yes, we can count.
Lee Schneider it’s crazy how time flies
Matt Polzkill a month after, your comment. Looks like more people agree with him rather than your dumb ass....would he still be considered a nutcake if millions of people agreed with him? Would you at that point in time come to realize that he’s not crazy and that you’re just dumb and gullible?
Just went down a rabbit hole of figuring out who the guy was that wrote most of these songs. His name was Craig Palmer, and he composed all kinds of music, but was well known for this kind of jazzy, industrial music featured on news broadcasts, documentaries, etc....We know all of our favorite bands from the late 70s and 80s, but talented guys like Craig were tucked away in California recording studios, behind the scenes, making music that we could never put a face to, but that everyone was hearing on their commemorative Super Bowl films. I am a hobby musician and amateur music historian. I enjoy collecting old music gear from the time period this video was made in. Things like this are incredibly interesting to me, and maybe this little tidbit was for you. Maybe not! That's all.
Seems legit
Do you know what music in the beginning and in the end? I checked all mentioned in video's description but it's not there
legit incredible -- thanks for this
@Music Neegus Thank you!
Thank you for this!
Go to the Bronx during this time period, and see how “exciting” parts of NYC were.
When they show these videos to tourist & potential buyers they always show Manhattan only...
From The Bronx, can vouch on this.
Was it really bad yeah?
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Been there countless times every summer during the 70s and 80s to visit family on Findlay Avenue, South Bronx, and I still say they were VERY exciting times. 😅
My parents took me to NYC every summer between 1984 and 2001. I didn’t stop going in 2001 because of 9/11, I stopped going because I was college age by then and the trips finances became my responsibility. I have not been since but to this day it remains in my mind an unbelievably magical place. My best childhood memories are of Manhattan in the summertime. And of course I’m grateful to have seen the city from the top of the south tower of the WTC
Mid to late 80's. We had no idea how perfect the time was.
AIDS and Crack era perfect?
@@first-classkiki4evaah yes, we should always focus on all of the negative things. Maybe we should start remembering the past only negatively, no need to remember the positive things. Right?
Better than today in 2021
@@PU8698, Okay so I guess we should just focus on the good thing of the past. Well that's great and all of doing those kinds of things. So then why does my decade the 2010s never get any of that positivity? Why is it getting so much hate to as far as seven years ago when we weren't even halfway through the 2010s yet? Is it because that the decade had just happened and that we're still feeling the effects of it right now? Well I mean that's kinda true. But then what's the difference between 2011 and 2021. It's a 10 year gap so there must be a big difference between those years right?
And it think this happens everytime we go into a new decade. All decades before the past one get positive received and then the one that just happened gets bashed hard until halfway through the current decade. Don't believe me well look at the 2000s. Around the year 2009 up to around the years 2013 or 2014 maybe there seems to be a lot of comments both in the forums of Wikipedia and on RUclips that used to bash the 2000s a lot with a lot of people calling it "the worst decade ever" even though you can call every decade the best or worst decade ever since it's after all it's subjective. But around the mid 2010s something changed. The people that grew up in the 2000s well grew up and there seems to be a lot of nostalgia from those groups of people that grew up in that decade.
And over time people seem to bash it much less than usual. This is called rosy retrospection or nostalgia bias by the way. Don't get me wrong though there are people who still don't like the 2000s which for them is fine. But it goes to show that over time the past decade can be grown on people. I expect the same to happen with the 2010s. The people who grew up in the 2010s (like me) will be grown up adults and will have a heavy amount of nostalgia for that decade due to the fact that they must've had a fun time in the decade and swiping off the bad things of it.
This is another one of the elements of rosy retrospection/nostalgia bias. There will still be people who will still hate the 2010s which is fine. But more people will be accepting the 2010s for what it was. And this is not just catered to the 2000s nor the 2010s either. The 1990s, 1980s, 1970s, 1960s, 1950s, and so on must've had the same elements of this cycle as well with people not accepting the past decade for what it was until around halfway through that current decade.
Now what about the 2020s however? Well this cycle will also affect the 2020s and future decade as well. Now before you say "but the 2020s suck and 2020 and 2021 sucks for having covid and we're living in bad times aren't we" well let me tell you this. Rosy retrospection is a double edged sword. It can allow you to look past all of the negatives of past decades and accept it as simpler times. But it can also allow you to be very naitive about the really bad stuff that happened which if they happened you would just say "well that was only a small problem the times were simpler no matter what" and would just make your perspective on things of the present kinda change. It can make even the smallest of problems to cause you to hate the present day for it.
And for the past when such problems in the present were way worse back then would only just make you thing "eh it could've been worse".
So with this in mind you yourself will be just swapping all of the negatives of the pandemic under the rug and just looking at all of the positives instead in around 5 to 10 years time. This is what rosy retrospective does. As does the old saying goes "We don’t realize we are in the best of times till it’s over". And I mean if people can look back at the freaking 1930s and 1940s as great times even though it had the worst economic depression of the last century and the worst war in human history then I mean people will foundly look back at the covid-19 pandemic positively and still be native about it which is fine since it's all apart of our nature and our biology and that's the entire point of rosy retrospection/nostalgia bias right? Also before I go there is another term for this call the golden age fallacy because there are a lot of terms for this phenomenon in this one subject.
Life seemed amazing back then! Strange seeing so many people talking...... to each other..... face to face!!!!!!!
it was'nt amazing, life now is 40 times better and convenient
God bless the people that had the foresight to make these recordings for posterity. Closest thing we have to time travel.
As a Brooklynite myself, one word to describe NYC during the eighties would be WILD! I'll never forget the club scenes, block parties, random crimes, hip-hop, and the authentic nitty-gritty culture!
Most of the gentrification and phony outsiders have changed and ruined the authenticity of the Big Apple in my opinion.
Cleaner and safer also means gentrified, private access only, and boring.
It makes me so happy to see all these comments of other people who are just as obsessed with trying to go back in time through old footage, I can almost touch it and I wasn’t even there. It feels like an old beloved memory. Take me back 🥲
You are not alone, there are so many of us now.
@@jeremyfielding2333 you can see a high quality clip of back then
m.ruclips.net/video/xFqmzqIn2_Y/видео.html
I feel like ending myself because I was born in the 2000s
@@Cadillac19Don’t! You have a purpose here!
@@johnnymartinez625 As long as a meet a classy girl.
internet CHANGED humans
jack benson we should get rid of it...or at least social media. It’s a disease.
The dopamine rush has hollowed out both meaningful human interaction and turned people into validation addicts. The same exact thing that happens to the mind of a drug addict, just a different vice.
Skank Who Dare yes
@Robert Gardea That too. Even commercialism activates the same pleasure centers of the brain through dopamine release. It is a disease when people think that buying more will give meaning to their lives. I've never once in my life spend money on stupidity and felt better for it. It's one of those things were you're telling yourself in your head that buying this crap (whatever it is) will make you happy, and it never does, you're just filled with a sense of "Why did I waste my money on this crap?"
I've never sent a email.
I always get shivers just by thinking the chance I'd jump in the streets of videos like this. The videos itself are kind of time travel!
This was great! The first time I went to NYC was around 87-88 for a class trip. I was looking for the original "I ❤ New York" commercial and then this video came up. They picked great people to interview. It would be nice to do a follow up and find out what happened to all those New Yorkers!!
"I live in Brooklyn but I LOVE New York!"
I think that came out in the late 70's
I wish I could just relive the 80s over and over again
Same here
But wouldn’t you get tired of that when it would be just the same old idea?
Y'all can not me
Ok, we will. Don't come either @@markfrost4785
@@markfrost4785what
I'm Argentinean. I never went to the United States in my life. But I can't stop watching New York videos from the '80s /' 90s. As if in my past life I had lived there. The nostalgia it generates in me is really crazy. And I'm only 25 years old...
Haha
just so you know i am a nyc resident who has visited argentina and i get the same feels for bs as. come and vist ny sometime!
@@dr3754 Awesome man!
I was obsessed that I made my parents take me in 1992. I was in the sixth grade. I had no idea of the bad parts. I thought it was just like all the movies i saw filmed in nyc. I told my parents I was moving there! Wtf was I thinking?!
This was a better era, even despite what seemed like half the city looking like a war zone. No smartphones, people weren't confused about their gender... Yes there were economic issues, AIDS, crack, etc. but there was great success too, and people were just nicer, more cooperative and less polarized due to having common values, common culture, etc.
Yep
Back when you didn't need a trust fund to live in Manhattan.
yeah just like anywhere now.
Found a place for $75 a month in Soho in 1978: decent one bedroom loft. Few subway stops from Studio 54
@@durf2753
Damn that's incredible.
Even with inflation I think 75 back then equals maybe 300 now
i will never get to appreciate the city my ancestors made great if i don't make more money than 99% of people on earth
Facts....👏
Its like one of those 1980s movies with Eddie Murphy
Coming to America
Trading Places. I love watching movies filmed in 80s NY!!
Check out big trouble in little china
Smokescreen INC So do I!!!
Beverley Hills Cop
i was born in NYC in 87, this video is crazy nostalgic
This was my era living in NYC/Brooklyn. I absolutely loved this time in NYC--- not a care in the world with everything in reach-- A NY state of mind.
did u ever step foot inside those towers
the north tower@@GregoryAlanBaileygamereviews the north tower
This video made me so... happy. Nostalgia for something I never touched or experienced back then, but always felt - courtesy of film, TV, music, news media, pop culture.
Even when I go to NYC now as an adult, I see it through this romanticised lens. I think I love NYC for the idea of it, more than what it is.
And boy oh boy... I'm so grateful that I can remember life before cellphones.
McKenna
You were probably born in the very early 2000s because you would have experience these if you were born in the 80s
When New York was New York
And it still is
Now it's old York.. Lol
@Wesson Steel Nope. It's that real-estate scammer who's destroying everything in the U.S.
Wesson Steel AOC is one of the few politicians who gives a flying fuck about average people. She didn’t approve of Amazon having a headquarters in New York because all it would’ve done is drive up the cost of living even more, plus the city was planning on PAYING them, using your tax dollars, even though they are a giant corporation.
As for Cuomo and DeBlasio, they are just your standard run of the mill corporatist neoliberals.
hudson yards is the new newyork