Bet people thought this guy was a weirdo recording them. But a little did they know.....how amazing and important this video is. A true treasure and just a glimpse in a moment in time
I totally agree. No filters, just raw footage. You should check out the Atlantic antic videos from the 80s, I was a kid and I see me and my family, it was a big surprise
Brooklyn with its ethnic enclaves has changed so much. Back then you could tell what neighborhood a person came from by his accent. Nowadays with all the gentrification and with people moving about so often, the old neighborhood accents are all gone. Thanks for capturing this bit of history or it would have been lost forever.
1997 I was 17 and in my last year of high school. When Brooklyn was a working class blue collar area. It’ll never be the same agin... it’s cleaner now and safer but it really lost its charm. Running into a native New Yorker is a rarity these days...
Izaneo a lot of the Italians moved to Jersey, Staten Island and Long Island. It’s lost it’s charm because society has lost its charm, there’s less physical social interaction now because of technology and because of the rat race, no one has time!
NYC was a different world back then. They yuppies lived in a few known spots and the rest of the city was basically working class and hood. Look at these neighborhoods now. They're infested with people who would be afraid to walk through these neighborhoods 20 years ago!
Exactly. I remember in early 1990s, I would ride R-train from Manhattan to my stop at 95th street Bay Ridge...and I could guess what stops most passengers would get off at, just by what they looked like (Yuppies got off near Downtown Brooklyn, Latinos around 40th-60th streets, Whites from 70th-90th). But today, it's Hipsters getting off at every stop mixed with every nationality too.
i grew up in brooklyn during this time it was the best it’s a shame you can’t physically go back to these places because they are not there any more they are moments in time
Native New Yorker from Bensonhurst Brooklyn born and raised 🇮🇹💯% I was born in December of 87 and I really miss the old Brooklyn I grew up in I have a 15 year old son and I try to explain to him what the neighborhood use to be like
Because no one speaks the same language anymore;it's Chinese, Russian,Arabic, Spanish.As recently as the early-90s people still spoke American English.Its a shame what happened to an entire swath of Brooklyn that used to be good, safe working class neighborhoods.Bay Ridge is now known as Beirut.Its sad for me.I'm from Gravesend, so I'm from what is now known as Chinatown 2 in Brooklyn.There's some Mexicans & Russians but its not close knit where everyone knows everyone else. Everything's gone! Everybody's gone!
its modern technology and the internet. plus covid 19. its even worse in small towns. its like living on the moon. the world is becoming more lonely as the years go by. i say this as a millenial who spends quite a lot of time in front of a screen. im not placing judgement. its just disappointing how alienating the world has become. its worse than ever in that regard. if you dont have a job there are few reasons to go outside at all. i wonder if things will ever get better with covid 19 tightening its grip. we need lots of luck.
@@jjbk2356 it’s an unfortunate truth that most people born in the 90s don’t actually remember the 90s I was a 92er. About to turn 6 when this footage was taken. The only year I can truly say I remember some what well was 1999. Other than that, it’s a few bits and pieces of knowing I simply existed
Glad I found this video, filmed when I was two. Sad as fuck because it could be a summer day and the parks are empty now and everyone's inside playing fornite or whatever the fuck
Ahhhh Dyker park, 86th St. and 14th Ave. Spent many a day there as a kid in the 70's when i just lived a block over on Bay 7th St. The park was way different from when this video was taken. Caught the B64 right across the street with my mom to go shopping in Bay Ridge. Moved to Marine Park in '81 but i came back to live in Bensonhurst for 14 years only a year after this video was taken.
My sister still lives there & she is the last Italian. But she owns a beautiful brownstone & doesn't really want to leave. We grew up in Dyker heights & I left 37 yrs ago & never looked back.
That’s nonsense.I remember growing up in the 90’s and older people would say the exact same thing about us kids with our tv and Nintendo games and “why don’t you go outside”.It’s generational bias.Every older generation thinks “things were better in my day”.Awkward and antisocial people existed back then too like they did throughout all of human history.I don’t feel like it’s any different today in my experience.
Brooklynballa Bullshit its generation bias. Yes they did say that to some degree about the Nintendo back then (I'm sure we're around the same age) but this is some whole new shit today.
@@BrooklynBallaYou're right. On every video of old New York people say the same thing and got the nostalgia goggles on. There's good and bad about any era. That's always been true.
I miss these days. Few years later, and all hell breaks loose. If you woulda told me that day, 4 planes would change our lives forever, i woulda called you fuckin crazy
That's my old neighborhood. Im' 54 y/o now. That was when Brooklyn was still tough and people lived free. Before 9/11 and Obama. Before the new world order and digital slavery. And the guy in the shades is a legend. Pauly from H.D.D..
Joey the fish!?!? Get the fuk outta herrrre, how you doing bro!? Remember back in the day running with the bath avenue crew that spero was a fkn piece of work A!? Whacking paulie ahh!?
@JayVee lamberty I get your point but you're missing one important factor "White Flight" you're right in the past neighborhoods have declined when people of color moved to certain areas but this was do to the lack of service and provisions available that were liberally given to their white counterparts. Loans to start small businesses, credit for home ownership the list goes on. We haven't made it a race issue others have by establishing programs like "Redlining" look that up please. We look at the surface of behavior and not the source meaning we see people of color moving into a neighborhood and see that its declining but fail to acknowledge that there are outside influences that help this decline. I personally tried to move into this neighborhood and felt the resistance and as a NYC PO at the time i know i wouldn't have brought this neighborhood to its demise.
Kids In a park, Something that is rare in today's society. It's to show you which way our society is heading ,unsafe for children.elderly can't be protected.punks
I left in 1996, but I hung around this park and that neighborhood a lot. I usually hung out with the weird kids into goth, alternative, grunge, and industrial. It was often a group of guys and girls, hanging out together, talking about movies, music, video games, and darker shit like witchcraft, horror movies, magick, and of course weed and acid. I lived not far from the park, but still a bit of a hike from 5th Ave and 86th Street. Back then, we would rollerblade a lot to save the bus fare and not have to walk for an hour. Used to pass the time listening to music on tapes and CDs. Both were popular and what you had deepened on what you could afford. Arcade machines were still pretty popular and you could pass a few just walking around the store fronts. As a kid, you could just hang out by an arcade machine for hours with other kids, playing or watching others play. Some video rental stores had arcade machines and kids would often congregate there before being kicked out by the staff there. I remember never truly being bored. There was always a friend to visit, or something to get into or some kind of mission for the day. I spent my last year there homeless. My religious zealot parents kicked me out for not following their religion so I ended up without a place to stay, but most of the time, friends' couches. Won't ever forget that kindness when I needed it the most. I've got lots of life regrets, but I'm successful now despite the hard work it took to get here. I'll always remember that special time and place growing up in Brooklyn in the 80's and 90's. It made me who I am today.
Are you kidding? This neighborhood is much cleaner and safer now. Back then, this was truly a working-class, blue collar area. It has been replaced by more educated and upscale hipster types who pushed the cost of living way up as well as Asians. Having said that, it is kind of sad that it has lost that grimy and old school Brooklyn roughness. Now, it's mostly transplants from other parts of the country. It's hard to find anyone who has that old Brooklyn accent and attitude in this neighborhood.
Bet people thought this guy was a weirdo recording them. But a little did they know.....how amazing and important this video is. A true treasure and just a glimpse in a moment in time
for real!
Facts, it had character
I totally agree. No filters, just raw footage. You should check out the Atlantic antic videos from the 80s, I was a kid and I see me and my family, it was a big surprise
True bet if diff people lil PUNKS were in that park they would of beat the poor guy up..
i'm in the video I don't remember this guy videoing us but I wish I could rewind time
Brooklyn with its ethnic enclaves has changed so much. Back then you could tell what neighborhood a person came from by his accent. Nowadays with all the gentrification and with people moving about so often, the old neighborhood accents are all gone. Thanks for capturing this bit of history or it would have been lost forever.
I was 18 yr old Fort Hamilton senior at this recording. You absolutely nailed the time. This is like a an effin time capsule
now its Mosque country over there...the Arabs took it over
SafetyConeGarage yup, such is life people move on and new ones come in. You either change with the times or get left behind!
my brother Konstantin was there, same time, same school.
Who is this I was a senior at that time
@@andreyvtr.2162 how was this allowed to happen
1997 I was 17 and in my last year of high school. When Brooklyn was a working class blue collar area. It’ll never be the same agin... it’s cleaner now and safer but it really lost its charm. Running into a native New Yorker is a rarity these days...
Where’d they go?
Izaneo a lot of the Italians moved to Jersey, Staten Island and Long Island. It’s lost it’s charm because society has lost its charm, there’s less physical social interaction now because of technology and because of the rat race, no one has time!
@@izaneo4296 Long Island
Same way in South Philly
@@izaneo4296 New Jersey lol
NYC was a different world back then. They yuppies lived in a few known spots and the rest of the city was basically working class and hood. Look at these neighborhoods now. They're infested with people who would be afraid to walk through these neighborhoods 20 years ago!
Abu Ibraheem Al Amreeki true
So true,I see exactly what you're talking about.
Exactly. I remember in early 1990s, I would ride R-train from Manhattan to my stop at 95th street Bay Ridge...and I could guess what stops most passengers would get off at, just by what they looked like (Yuppies got off near Downtown Brooklyn, Latinos around 40th-60th streets, Whites from 70th-90th). But today, it's Hipsters getting off at every stop mixed with every nationality too.
Only an idiot complains about change for the better
Wes Collins I’d rather be an idiot than live somewhere that’s soulless.
Ny is so generic now with no identity. RIP the real New York
It's hard to watch this video knowing that in just a few years the world was going to change forever and never be the same again.
i grew up in brooklyn during this time it was the best it’s a shame you can’t physically go back to these places because they are not there any more they are moments in time
I miss the old Brooklyn New York city it was fun back in the 80 and 90 Now we just have to remember the good old days 😢 😞 😔 💗💗🙏🙏💯💯💯
This video made my entire week. It’s my childhood in a nutshell. Thank you so much for posting.
Pre-9/11 Bay Ridge was the happiest place on Earth to me.
I would do anything,anything,anything to go back to these days! Best neighborhood in the world!!!
No cell phones. I remember these days all too well. I miss them.
Native New Yorker from Bensonhurst Brooklyn born and raised 🇮🇹💯% I was born in December of 87 and I really miss the old Brooklyn I grew up in I have a 15 year old son and I try to explain to him what the neighborhood use to be like
what's beNSONhurst now bunch of blacks ND HISPANICS N MUSLIMS?
@@marke5202I thought Bensonhurst was Asian now?
I know that park well. My grandma lived on Bay 8th right across the street. I played at those handball courts a lot too.
Dyker park on 14th & 86th. Great spot but always crowded during the summer.
Lord this broke back so many memories being in this park, just chillen with your friends! Our kids would never understand
It’s not like this anymore you see no kids it’s empty all streets empty no one talking to no one
Because no one speaks the same language anymore;it's Chinese, Russian,Arabic, Spanish.As recently as the early-90s people still spoke American English.Its a shame what happened to an entire swath of Brooklyn that used to be good, safe working class neighborhoods.Bay Ridge is now known as Beirut.Its sad for me.I'm from Gravesend, so I'm from what is now known as Chinatown 2 in Brooklyn.There's some Mexicans & Russians but its not close knit where everyone knows everyone else. Everything's gone! Everybody's gone!
Big Cee bay ridge was arab for years but it was more Lebanese and Syrian. These days you see yemeni and Egyptians.
You still got Italians in bay ridge that live there trust me there just not a big community anymore.
its modern technology and the internet. plus covid 19. its even worse in small towns. its like living on the moon. the world is becoming more lonely as the years go by. i say this as a millenial who spends quite a lot of time in front of a screen. im not placing judgement. its just disappointing how alienating the world has become. its worse than ever in that regard. if you dont have a job there are few reasons to go outside at all. i wonder if things will ever get better with covid 19 tightening its grip. we need lots of luck.
RIP - I'm old enough to talk about the good old days.
Our neighborhoods are shot now
I know how you feel
Back when smartphones werent a thing and people actually went out to have fun.
People sat outside on summer evenings with their neighbors drinking coffee and talking about their day.
While you are commenting on the internet
This is crazy to watch. I was 10 years old. I was always there lol. Miss those blocks to climb on lol
@Corduroy El Negroid yeah true or anti social it's really sad how humanity is not as high up in the air anymore like this video depicts.
But then again if they was out it would be the same as now
Oh maron I've been looking for this! My old hood! That's me at 1:48 playin bball!! 😯👊🏼🇮🇹
Nice!
I heard someone say, "Good fuckin' pass" lol
Now this is the Brooklyn I grew up in!
Good old times. As a kid, I worked in Key food on 15th av 86 str, 15 min walk from there, till about 1995.
Not from Dyker Heights but it’s so sad that New York lost its aesthetic to it , I’ll never forget these time #90s baby forever I was 4 in 97
I was 5
I kinda doubt you remember much about the 90s.....
@@jjbk2356 it’s an unfortunate truth that most people born in the 90s don’t actually remember the 90s
I was a 92er. About to turn 6 when this footage was taken. The only year I can truly say I remember some what well was 1999. Other than that, it’s a few bits and pieces of knowing I simply existed
I love Dyker Heights neighborhood, i went to IS 201 and PS 229, miss those days.
The good old days
Before the masses looking for cheap rent hit Brooklyn and turned it into organic food stores and overpriced coffee shops.
This must have been during the heatwave of March 1998. It hit 86 degrees at that time. Nuts. I was only a month old then.
Holy smokes. I remember when that park was made of wood, I miss those days.
Glad I found this video, filmed when I was two. Sad as fuck because it could be a summer day and the parks are empty now and everyone's inside playing fornite or whatever the fuck
Go to Maria Hernandez Park in Bushwick or Prospect Park at 11pm in the summer, people are out all night. I'm 35. There are more parks than ever.
As a Bronx/Harlem person moving into my first apartment in bay ridge NOW, this is so important to see.
I live right behind the funeral home Scacchi’s funeral home on the corner there was the 19th all for all the old wise guys
** it's scarpaci** it's still there
All these people live in Staten island now...even the rot
NY NY long island too
Ahhhh Dyker park, 86th St. and 14th Ave. Spent many a day there as a kid in the 70's when i just lived a block over on Bay 7th St. The park was way different from when this video was taken. Caught the B64 right across the street with my mom to go shopping in Bay Ridge. Moved to Marine Park in '81 but i came back to live in Bensonhurst for 14 years only a year after this video was taken.
That’s Dyker beach park not bay ridge
Hudson Dove it’s both
@@ally-dp7fl No, Its Dyker Park!
Big Cee no it's both
Joey Fama for President!Make Brooklyn Great Again!
14th avenue 86th street, dyker park and golf corse, dyker beach park farther down by the highway. This is dyker heights by verrazano not Bay Ridge.
Back when Italians still lived in bklyn,go there now,all you see is Asian and Mexican,I’m one of the last still there
You misspelled ARABS
My sister still lives there & she is the last Italian. But she owns a beautiful brownstone & doesn't really want to leave. We grew up in Dyker heights & I left 37 yrs ago & never looked back.
@@ivyc3500
Good for her for staying!!!!!!
Once upon a lifetime ago!
#ourneighborhood!
It takes me back ,I want an icey cone 😍
Great place ..great time 👍♥️🇮🇹
Man, back when kids knew how to socialize outdoors and hang out without the "awkwardness" or "cringeful" BS.
That’s nonsense.I remember growing up in the 90’s and older people would say the exact same thing about us kids with our tv and Nintendo games and “why don’t you go outside”.It’s generational bias.Every older generation thinks “things were better in my day”.Awkward and antisocial people existed back then too like they did throughout all of human history.I don’t feel like it’s any different today in my experience.
Brooklynballa Bullshit its generation bias. Yes they did say that to some degree about the Nintendo back then (I'm sure we're around the same age) but this is some whole new shit today.
@@BrooklynBallaYou're right. On every video of old New York people say the same thing and got the nostalgia goggles on.
There's good and bad about any era. That's always been true.
@@BrooklynBalla Facts, older ppl are too nostalgic and biased
It's all set in the park. I was hoping for some shots of storefronts to see if they bring back forgotten memories.
Wow I’m in this video sad to see my friends that have passed away
Which one are you in this video?
Ah man my condolences.
@@Felya girl with the grey shirt
1998 I remember that week. We had like 5 straight 80 degree days in march. As you can see every one in tee shirts in the video
I miss these days. Few years later, and all hell breaks loose. If you woulda told me that day, 4 planes would change our lives forever, i woulda called you fuckin crazy
Yo Pauly cease ! 97’ wow
yep!!!!
We used to hustle handball at that park back in the 60's.
We used to smoke weed and drop acid on that golf course in the 90's.
50s,60s,70s,80s the MOB activity was strong strong
That's my old neighborhood. Im' 54 y/o now. That was when Brooklyn was still tough and people lived free. Before 9/11 and Obama. Before the new world order and digital slavery. And the guy in the shades is a legend. Pauly from H.D.D..
At the start of the video, you can definitely tell that's Brooklyn.
Little did we.know that.four years later our lives would change forever .
Now it's 80% Chinese
Look at my crew that's my crew my boys.lmao.. all I said was like three girls standing there lol.
It's crazy. The infrastructure stayed the same, for the most part. But everything else, fuhgeddaboudit!
1:15 if cartman was from Bk New York and not South Park Colorado
I use to hang in cropsey park\ near shore Parkway and cropsey ave
I remember all these sounds back in the days times was changing music changing NYC stoop hang have changed ppl
Wow I was young!!!!!! Bensonhurst 4 life
That's you in the video with the with the wife beater and tattoo ?
That you bro in the white vest?
Wow I haven’t seen you in years just wanna says what’s up your boy joe fish HDD
Joey the fish!?!? Get the fuk outta herrrre, how you doing bro!? Remember back in the day running with the bath avenue crew that spero was a fkn piece of work A!? Whacking paulie ahh!?
James Pattison I’m doing great just working living life how are you soon I say my name I got so much messages lol
Thank you for uploading this
I’m gonna raid my moms stash of home movies and see what I can upload too
what an awesome video
I'm a senior in fort hamilton hs as of today and that bear park is EMPTYYYY now let me tell you
used to work on carroll and nevins ave in the 80s
all gone,,,,its so sad no one today in that park speaks english anymore ,, they gave the neighborhood away !!
As long as they took place of racists like you, there really is no problem. Stay salty, stay replaced, Chud 🤡🖕
Before millianeals starting moving into neighborhoods from bayside California
Yeah now it feels like little china
why our people sold us out.....and let the Chinese in and took our 86street....
Yeah they buying up everything, taking ovet
All the Italians left so that's what happens.
Good. I hope they continue to destroy everything you love just so I can drink your salty tears, Chud 🤡🖕
@@ivyc3500They made a big mistake leaving.
Listening to hip hop but brothers weren't welcomed. Lol
Typical hood ish
@JayVee lamberty I get your point but you're missing one important factor "White Flight" you're right in the past neighborhoods have declined when people of color moved to certain areas but this was do to the lack of service and provisions available that were liberally given to their white counterparts. Loans to start small businesses, credit for home ownership the list goes on. We haven't made it a race issue others have by establishing programs like "Redlining" look that up please. We look at the surface of behavior and not the source meaning we see people of color moving into a neighborhood and see that its declining but fail to acknowledge that there are outside influences that help this decline. I personally tried to move into this neighborhood and felt the resistance and as a NYC PO at the time i know i wouldn't have brought this neighborhood to its demise.
Hahahahaha
And they worshipped Robert DiNero, who dated & married only black women...Oh the irony.
Very Cool 😎 👍👍
This felt like today when I watched this
Dyker park baby..
I grew up in Dyker Heights.
That's Def Pauly Cease
Yes it is him
my boy paul
Kids In a park, Something that is rare in today's society. It's to show you which way our society is heading ,unsafe for children.elderly can't be protected.punks
Crime went down since then, dumbass.
my boy paulie cease
Yo, deez ah my boyz. Meet paulie, paulie, paulie, tony and paulie! Tink you cud rememba dat?
Da besta wines Da besta foods
too bad the whole city is woke or broke now
RIP BIG - Life After Death 🔥 2:30
Is their still a big Italian American neighbourhood presents in Bensonhurst, Brooklyn
No it's almost completely Asian now. There are no Italian neighbourhoods left in new york.
@@johnterry3312 I heard you still a very little amount in queens Brooklyn the Bronx. and Staten Island or more or less like little Italian
@@johnterry3312 😂 you don’t know what you’re talking about!
@@johnterry3312 Howard Beach is Italian quartiere
I would say Staten Island
Can someone explain to me what was a day in life in new york in 1997. Like what was popular ect
@AW 33COM shit used to be real
I left in 1996, but I hung around this park and that neighborhood a lot. I usually hung out with the weird kids into goth, alternative, grunge, and industrial. It was often a group of guys and girls, hanging out together, talking about movies, music, video games, and darker shit like witchcraft, horror movies, magick, and of course weed and acid. I lived not far from the park, but still a bit of a hike from 5th Ave and 86th Street. Back then, we would rollerblade a lot to save the bus fare and not have to walk for an hour. Used to pass the time listening to music on tapes and CDs. Both were popular and what you had deepened on what you could afford. Arcade machines were still pretty popular and you could pass a few just walking around the store fronts. As a kid, you could just hang out by an arcade machine for hours with other kids, playing or watching others play. Some video rental stores had arcade machines and kids would often congregate there before being kicked out by the staff there. I remember never truly being bored. There was always a friend to visit, or something to get into or some kind of mission for the day. I spent my last year there homeless. My religious zealot parents kicked me out for not following their religion so I ended up without a place to stay, but most of the time, friends' couches. Won't ever forget that kindness when I needed it the most. I've got lots of life regrets, but I'm successful now despite the hard work it took to get here. I'll always remember that special time and place growing up in Brooklyn in the 80's and 90's. It made me who I am today.
Wonder we’re all these people are now probably moved up to nj or up state
Park never be the same very sad
Wops
😄
PS 229
Class of 1980 here
I live 2 blocks from there.pass it everyday.
rip the squirrel
Dude looks like steveo
1:17 lmao
19 hole
@1:29 a celtics jersey!?!?!? woah
Wow look at SCOOTCH & PAULY C
My brother Pauly cease your brother joe fish HDD
ohhh
You can here Biggies Niggaz Bleed 💯💯
That’s when New York was clean and good looks like a Zoo now and food sucks
Are you kidding? This neighborhood is much cleaner and safer now. Back then, this was truly a working-class, blue collar area. It has been replaced by more educated and upscale hipster types who pushed the cost of living way up as well as Asians.
Having said that, it is kind of sad that it has lost that grimy and old school Brooklyn roughness. Now, it's mostly transplants from other parts of the country. It's hard to find anyone who has that old Brooklyn accent and attitude in this neighborhood.
Э ... Не Ташкент!!!
pete davidson w/ a corona
MET HDD RIP
4:23 what the is that plane?
Dead mans hill bike trail
Why did they call it that ??
This punk with the radio has to ruin it.
🍕 fun history fact Italy and Sicily were conquered by Arabs and Moors
wrong history
Stop breaking balls.
For like 50 years. It was ruled by the vikings, Greeks and Spanish for hundreds of years.
And John jouks MUSkONE!!
is that john jokis? i see pauly cease