I am blown away by these photos. I am an artist and I am captivated by these photos, especially the one at 7:43. I would love you paint that picture. I only paint pictures that I have personally taken, so that is out of the question for me. I am 52 and I remember when the cars and clothes looked like ones in these photos. I was 10 when the 1970's ended but because I had older sisters and brothers, the music of the time has been burned into my brain. Great music and lots of talented people. The 1980's had a different feel than the 70s for sure. The musician talent level dropped when the synthesizer became main stream. The 1970's were a great time to be alive, and anyone who lived through both the 70s and the 80s will know what I am talking about.
I still remember as a young kid in the 70s the different color street signs. Manhattan and Staten Island were yellow with black text, Brooklyn was black with white text, The Bronx was blue with white text, and Queens was white with blue text.
Miss those days in the NY Metro area. Grew up in the 70's/80's, and lived only 15 mins from downtown Manhattan, over in Joisey. Spent soooooo many weekends in that GREAT great city. Happy memories!! Thanks for making this vid.
wow! great pictures..those were the days... being born in 1958 i remember the cars..great to see so many of them....great music also, good playing....cheers!
AWW MAN THE MUSIC !!?! I REMEMBER THAT DISCO ERA LIKE IF IT WAS YESTERDAY 🔥🗣being born in 1955 & becoming a young adult in the 79s was a BEAUTIFUL feeling in nyc I remember buying my first apartment in 77 right in Brooklyn
Wow! This is one of the best NYC compilations I've ever seen. NIce job of balancing the music and including jazz as well. Thanks so much for putting this together. This is the New York that I so fondly remember as I grew in the 60s-early 70s riding the #2 train. Even with the urban decay many of us that were kids have a lot of good memories. I only wish you had a few more shots of the Bronx and of the IRT. Overall, nice job!
I'd forgotten exactly what used to be on the block on Broadway from 46-47 Streets. I remember the HoJo's, but had forgotten about r the Burger King and the Forum Theatre.
I miss Old New York I left the city I grew up in back in the late 70`s and throughout 80`s back in 1991 and was horrified and struck dumb by the hipster Disneyland Guliani turned it into after his terms in office. He sold out the city wholesale to developers and corporate interest who could care less. I miss the Old New York which once belonged to the people who grew up in it and toiled all of their lives in it. Id rather remember what was than ever see it again after what its become.
People were being murdered wholesale.west side east side all around the city.WTF is wrong with you.? It was an AIDS ground zero.It had to be fumigated.
I was just a little girl in the 70's and living in central jersey at the time ,though i've been to New York many a times either on a school trip or my mother would take me i can remember walking the streets of New york at Christmas Time and seeing a Santa Clause on every street corner ,being in New York was always interesting as well as creepy ,going through the Holland Tunnel always scared me and those tall buildings had me looking up to the heavens.
For me, another neat American icon are the classic GMC "fishbowl" transit buses and the Flxible "new look" buses which had a similar body style. I remember how warm they were in the middle of the freezing winters and how their airbag suspension ride could just about put you to sleep (but you still had to watch out for the pickpockets, lol!). There seemed to be hundreds of those classy buses everywhere, now the few left are collector's items in museums.
Ahh, The City the way it was - gritty, lots of old signs, neon. Even though the crime rate was so much higher back then, I still felt safer back when all you had to do was be aware of your surroundings and not go where you shouldn't. Now I don't recognize The City - it's been Bloombergified. Yes, it's clean and sparkly and shiny, but to me seeing the Star Wars Storm Troopers on the streets makes it much scarier than the 70's.
Today our mayor worries about what soda your drinking. Living in the city back then was just like these pictures, everyone had some kind of struggle... that's what kept us sharper than the soft living regions of the country.
If you mute the music to this video while playing Sly and the Family Stone "Hot Fun in the Summertime" in another window, it will bring you right back man.
Class, color photos really are wonderful for catching the moment black and white is seen as superior from an artistic point of view but for me color is more vibrant and satisfying ..
My high school and college days were spent in New York in the seventies. Indeed this was the greater New York scene of the time. Certainly not ideal but not so bad either. Great collection of pics. Thank you for posting them!
@@nickrod9526 Queens, The Bronx, Staten Island and Brooklyn are indeed parts of New York City. The residents pay NYC taxes, they get to vote for the mayor, etcccccccccccccccc. Tell someone from Queens that the Mets aren't a "real" New York team, or tell someone from The Bronx that Yankee Stadium is not a "real" New York treasure, and you will discover what **true** laughter really is when they respond to you lol 😂.
Why the very UN-70s music? Viewers of these images should be serenaded by "Soul Survivor," "Sway," "Street Fighting' Man," and "Shattered" by The Rolling Stones and just about anything by The Ramones.
With all due respect sir, that would be going backwards. What they built there now is a marvel of engineering and technology. There is also a very moving memorial to the people that died there that day as well as a memorial for the hero NYC Police, Firemen and other first responders that gave everything. The footprints of the Towers are sacred ground where all the lost souls rest now.
I worked at 5 WTC. The new building was built due to architectural and engineering changes from the last 40 years. In addition it took time for the new building to be occupied.
I can't quite pinpoint what's wrong here. Oh. Yes. That's right. I know. No one is looking down at a passifier, baby rattle electronic device. Silly me. I'll relive these time over and over again.
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The 1970s, the last era of the full size, comfortable, American luxury cars, cruising down Park Ave.
Gritty is a good description for it back then. I actually told a friend that since I left (25 yrs ago) I lost my edge because I didn't have the grit to keep me sharp anymore. It started getting cleaned up around the time I left.
Ohhh !!! Where is N.Y.P.D. Capt. Barney Miller huh ?? And Archie Bunker. Or Tony Danza and Danny DaVito and that great yellow taxi service of the city that never sleeps. Marone. Anyway Buone Vacanze huh? Merry Christmas. Ciao.
This is before the gas crisis when all of a sudden there was no gas,, remember the odd and even number on your license plate to get gas. What ever the last number on your license plate was one day was only people with even numbers can get gas then the next day odd numbers get gas. But after that the car's got smaller .
.New York of 2012 is a dying city. When you walk around Manhattan, ie. midtown and downtown most of the people you see on the streets are tourist. All the live music performance venues have shut down and the east village and St. Marks are now filled with sports bars and karoke clubs in place of alternative music. No records shops all replaced by nail salons. Books shops are closed as well. All the new transplants from the south and midwest have somehow ruined the vibrancy of Gotham. Sad.
This is good shit man !! great photographs and need a music list..i liked all of the tracks on this vid but ive never heard them b4 who the fuck are these bands ? they are pretty good and i wanna hear more...
The weather was always the same... From the 60-70's NY had cooler people... ( Black American, Puerto Rican, Italian, Jewish, Irish, Jamaican, Chinese, Dominican, Russian) ... A lot of these groups were there for generations ... Now a lot of them moved away and new and completely different immigrants replaced them , so it's completely different now
The city was in rough shape in those days, looks like they are on their way back. I remember the highways falling apart, along with the subways, the Bronx was on fire, the Police wouldn’t do anything, car theft out of this world, porn and prostitution all over midtown. Wasn’t pretty.
Great. Very nostalgic. Never been there but always drawn to it, it offers so much visually and I think of the life style people lived in such an incredible living animal. It can be angry or happy or just resting but no matter what it always looks awesome. In movies photos on tv you always see more. I love new york! The birth place of hip-hop and taxi drivers route. The mao mao chaplins and the know nothings. A mountain of shit and a pile of gold. New wave new york. Thanks for post love to see m
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I am blown away by these photos. I am an artist and I am captivated by these photos, especially the one at 7:43. I would love you paint that picture. I only paint pictures that I have personally taken, so that is out of the question for me. I am 52 and I remember when the cars and clothes looked like ones in these photos. I was 10 when the 1970's ended but because I had older sisters and brothers, the music of the time has been burned into my brain. Great music and lots of talented people. The 1980's had a different feel than the 70s for sure. The musician talent level dropped when the synthesizer became main stream. The 1970's were a great time to be alive, and anyone who lived through both the 70s and the 80s will know what I am talking about.
I loved wearing the Nylon disco shirts.
I spent the greater part of the 70s driving a taxi in New York City and lived to tell the tale.
Did you drive the real cab?? The checker Cab!!
Drove several kinds. Checker Marathon was the best.
Are you talking to me?
Thanks for the video. It made me nostalgic, especially during coronavirus when my city is suffering so badly.
I still remember as a young kid in the 70s the different color street signs.
Manhattan and Staten Island were yellow with black text, Brooklyn was black with white text, The Bronx was blue with white text, and Queens was white with blue text.
Miss those days in the NY Metro area. Grew up in the 70's/80's, and lived only 15 mins from downtown Manhattan, over in Joisey. Spent soooooo many weekends in that GREAT great city. Happy memories!! Thanks for making this vid.
wow! great pictures..those were the days... being born in 1958 i remember the cars..great to see so many of them....great music also, good playing....cheers!
AWW MAN THE MUSIC !!?! I REMEMBER THAT DISCO ERA LIKE IF IT WAS YESTERDAY 🔥🗣being born in 1955 & becoming a young adult in the 79s was a BEAUTIFUL feeling in nyc I remember buying my first apartment in 77 right in Brooklyn
Totally! K.C. and the Sunshine Band!
who's playing on the songs in this video? great jamming... i click on this mostly to hear the music... its got that nyc attitude and great pictures
So true..I loved to go to all the used record store in the 70s.
This is how New York was in the 70s when I was a kid and I have beautiful memories of the Big Apple! Great video!
Wow! This is one of the best NYC compilations I've ever seen. NIce job of balancing the music and including jazz as well. Thanks so much for putting this together. This is the New York that I so fondly remember as I grew in the 60s-early 70s riding the #2 train. Even with the urban decay many of us that were kids have a lot of good memories. I only wish you had a few more shots of the Bronx and of the IRT. Overall, nice job!
gritty..seedy...but so vibrant and never a dull moment!
I'd forgotten exactly what used to be on the block on Broadway from 46-47 Streets. I remember the HoJo's, but had forgotten about r the Burger King and the Forum Theatre.
I miss Old New York I left the city I grew up in back in the late 70`s and throughout 80`s back in 1991 and was horrified and struck dumb by the hipster Disneyland Guliani turned it into after his terms in office. He sold out the city wholesale to developers and corporate interest who could care less. I miss the Old New York which once belonged to the people who grew up in it and toiled all of their lives in it. Id rather remember what was than ever see it again after what its become.
People were being murdered wholesale.west side east side all around the city.WTF is wrong with you.? It was an AIDS ground zero.It had to be fumigated.
Lol. New York was a complete 💩 hole back then and its crime rate was a lot higher. New York is somewhat a lot cleaner now than what it was back then.
Same here I loved the look of old New York City and this video is just fabulous!
I was just a little girl in the 70's and living in central jersey at the time ,though i've been to New York many a times either on a school trip or my mother would take me i can remember walking the streets of New york at Christmas Time and seeing a Santa Clause on every street corner ,being in New York was always interesting as well as creepy ,going through the Holland Tunnel always scared me and those tall buildings had me looking up to the heavens.
I want to go back!
no fatties eee? !!
I remember I bought 1970 Ford galaxy with 30.0000 mile for $ 1250.00 ,those were the days.
brand new camaro$4200....! ins. $124/yr 17 yrs old
the american dream came true
For me, another neat American icon are the classic GMC "fishbowl" transit buses and the Flxible "new look" buses which had a similar body style. I remember how warm they were in the middle of the freezing winters and how their airbag suspension ride could just about put you to sleep (but you still had to watch out for the pickpockets, lol!). There seemed to be hundreds of those classy buses everywhere, now the few left are collector's items in museums.
I loved playing spot the Cadillacs in this video!
What wonderful days was ,I really wish go back. Golden years back then.
Barney, Wojo, and all the guys from the 12th precinct.
Ahh, The City the way it was - gritty, lots of old signs, neon. Even though the crime rate was so much higher back then, I still felt safer back when all you had to do was be aware of your surroundings and not go where you shouldn't. Now I don't recognize The City - it's been Bloombergified. Yes, it's clean and sparkly and shiny, but to me seeing the Star Wars Storm Troopers on the streets makes it much scarier than the 70's.
Excellent job on this vid. So much to look at. I swear, i paused it at almost every clip. Love!
8:10 is an enthralling, lovely photograph! i would love to have been there and heard what that guy was playing!!!
Just think, that guy is probably in his late-80s to early-90s now **at least**. Hopefully he made it.
I want to live in 70s. Why we did have to be born in such shitty times?
the 70's were shitty in their own way....like any decade. ;)
Patricia Gullickson What an intelligent insult...
Same thing for me dude, to think seeing those cars everywhere was normal back then is amazing, wish I was born in the 40's 50's or 60's and not 1995..
I'd love to be a detective in NYC back in the 70's, I'd be forever asking criminals if they picked their feet in Poughkeepsie.
Today our mayor worries about what soda your drinking. Living in the city back then was just like these pictures, everyone had some kind of struggle... that's what kept us sharper than the soft living regions of the country.
New York City in the 70’s, I love it.
The opening keyboards on "Takin' it to the Streets'' by the Doobie Brothers always takes me back. One of the greatest songs of that decade.
@3:54 guy getting in a cab with a cigarette in his mouth 😆 WOW ! Don't see that anymore.
9:09 Village cigars.. That store is still there. Definitely has withstood the test of time.
It closed
Thank you for the memories, I enjoyed it very much.
wow, these are beautifully framed urban scenes taken with great care and great film, maybe kodachrome? Loved it, can't wait to watch part 2.
Love it. Artists could actually afford to live in Manhattan in those. Days.
As a proud owner of several 60's / 70's classic American cars, I dig this vid!
If you mute the music to this video while playing Sly and the Family Stone "Hot Fun in the Summertime" in another window, it will bring you right back man.
Thumbs up if you were alive during the 70s.
Class, color photos really are wonderful for catching the moment black and white is seen as superior from an artistic point of view but for me color is more vibrant and satisfying ..
You took the good with the bad and it was good then.
4:45 that corvette looks sooooo good
Sorry bud, there is no Corvette.
@@maunster3414 Probably meant 4:53
@@VFatalis, ah yes, that one.
Glad to see photos of that era that aren't all doom and gloom
cool city till 90's
My high school and college days were spent in New York in the seventies. Indeed this was the greater New York scene of the time. Certainly not ideal but not so bad either. Great collection of pics. Thank you for posting them!
Im not regret coming to nyc 1979, as a tourist it was a great experience. Hopefully situation get well so i can came back to nyc.
There's still a lot of those deskey light poles in NYC to this day. Can't believe that they've been around since the 70's.
4:46 to 4:47 is not NYC.
@@nickrod9526 Queens, The Bronx, Staten Island and Brooklyn are indeed parts of New York City. The residents pay NYC taxes, they get to vote for the mayor, etcccccccccccccccc.
Tell someone from Queens that the Mets aren't a "real" New York team, or tell someone from The Bronx that Yankee Stadium is not a "real" New York treasure, and you will discover what **true** laughter really is when they respond to you lol 😂.
sports cars and rock music ❤️
Though it had incredibly high crime rates and was dangerous, it’s got a lot more culture than the New York of today.
Why the very UN-70s music?
Viewers of these images should be serenaded by "Soul Survivor," "Sway," "Street Fighting' Man," and "Shattered" by The Rolling Stones and just about anything by The Ramones.
The “Towers” should have been rebuilt.
With all due respect sir, that would be going backwards. What they built there now is a marvel of engineering and technology. There is also a very moving memorial to the people that died there that day as well as a memorial for the hero NYC Police, Firemen and other first responders that gave everything. The footprints of the Towers are sacred ground where all the lost souls rest now.
I worked at 5 WTC. The new building was built due to architectural and engineering changes from the last 40 years. In addition it took time for the new building to be occupied.
The shittiest time to live in New York, the only thing I can say is I survived.....
It was a mess. City went broke. Public housing became an entitlement. And people fled by the thousands.
@@TheBatugan77 you said it brother
Me too
I can't quite pinpoint what's wrong here. Oh. Yes. That's right. I know. No one is looking down at a passifier, baby rattle electronic device. Silly me. I'll relive these time over and over again.
The 1970s, the last era of the full size, comfortable, American luxury cars, cruising down Park Ave.
back when safe spaces meant not getting shot, stabbed, or killed
i take every single car that i saw in this video. awesome pictures
I liked it a lot, thanks for adding.
BTW- 9:33 is Jersey City, NJ.
👍 super!!!
Look how 'gritty' and perfect NYC looked back then ;)
Gritty is a good description for it back then. I actually told a friend that since I left (25 yrs ago) I lost my edge because I didn't have the grit to keep me sharp anymore. It started getting cleaned up around the time I left.
I don't like the gritty, but I certainly loved seeing a few shots of the last remaining Howard Johnsons. Oh those fried clams!
great photos and nice soundtrack.
Ohhh !!! Where is N.Y.P.D. Capt. Barney Miller huh ?? And Archie Bunker. Or Tony Danza and Danny DaVito and that great yellow taxi service of the city that never sleeps. Marone. Anyway Buone Vacanze huh? Merry Christmas. Ciao.
look at all of them big body cars gotta love the era
Back when you could smoke in public.....
4:15 is Avenue J Brooklyn
Was looking for Tony Manero.
look in brklyn
I drove thru the FDR south today and I did not look like that lol!
R What a great slide show. Really enjoyable!
This is before the gas crisis when all of a sudden there was no gas,, remember the odd and even number on your license plate to get gas. What ever the last number on your license plate was one day was only people with even numbers can get gas then the next day odd numbers get gas. But after that the car's got smaller .
simply amazing.
What's the jazz music in the second part of the clip? I want to download it!
I hope make America great again means bringing back those classic American crusers aswell
.New York of 2012 is a dying city. When you walk around Manhattan, ie. midtown and downtown most of the people you see on the streets are tourist.
All the live music performance venues have shut down and the east village and St. Marks are now filled with sports bars and karoke clubs in place of alternative music. No records shops all replaced by nail salons. Books shops are closed as well. All the new transplants from the south and midwest have somehow ruined the vibrancy of Gotham. Sad.
N.Y.
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lol i remember this... home sweet home
@NewYorkHabitat this is another wonderful video of the old New York! (from a fan)
When it was fun city
LAMO @ 4:24... YOU SEE WARRIORS! YOU SEE WHAT YOU GET WHEN YOU MESS WITH THE ORPHANS!! WE'RE GONNA REIGN ON YOU WARRIORS!!
DrThrashenstein w
I meant W, which is what they spray painted
9:45 ford maverick - I had one :) today it's amost prohibited to drive one .
Same in London....
Good times
Love the cars, the clothes, and the haircuts
Those cars have HUGE front hoods. Puts little shitboxes like the Ford Fiesta to shame. That was back when cars were actually good.
Especially the American cars where great back in the day.
Those were the 60s and 70s super long cars.
8:45 is an amazing photo
Babyboomer era
Music please?
When Cosa Nostra thrived
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Why does the 1970s NYC look like present day Philadelphia?
cause it is????
This is good shit man !! great photographs and need a music list..i liked all of the tracks on this vid but ive never heard them b4 who the fuck are these bands ? they are pretty good and i wanna hear more...
What a great video!
Notice that almost all the vehicles are big American made cars.
isukaman Yea, America and the U.K were the biggest car producers in the world at the time
Then the oil crisis came
NY 70's I would like to be there in that time. Nice video.
Why is that when I see some 70's NY pics it's always sunny, kinda has a good vibe..and nowdays is like grey, lifeless, dead and shit?
The weather was always the same... From the 60-70's NY had cooler people... ( Black American, Puerto Rican, Italian, Jewish, Irish, Jamaican, Chinese, Dominican, Russian) ... A lot of these groups were there for generations ... Now a lot of them moved away and new and completely different immigrants replaced them , so it's completely different now
NEW IS A CESSPOOL DONT KNOW HOW PEEPS CAN LIVE THERE
hahaha! you did not live there in the 70s...?
great video old times!!! what is the name of the first and second song??
First song is Love Me Right by Ace Frehley I'm pretty sure. Second one is a Bobby Brown song maybe.
The caddy in front of the fire hydrant more than likely belonged to a mobster cuz they'll park anywhere
Those shameless thugs needed needed to be towed away at their expnse. I'd put all those bums in prison.
The city was in rough shape in those days, looks like they are on their way back. I remember the highways falling apart, along with the subways, the Bronx was on fire, the Police wouldn’t do anything, car theft out of this world, porn and prostitution all over midtown. Wasn’t pretty.
Great. Very nostalgic. Never been there but always drawn to it, it offers so much visually and I think of the life style people lived in such an incredible living animal. It can be angry or happy or just resting but no matter what it always looks awesome. In movies photos on tv you always see more. I love new york! The birth place of hip-hop and taxi drivers route. The mao mao chaplins and the know nothings. A mountain of shit and a pile of gold. New wave new york. Thanks for post love to see m
what's the song name and artist name, of the very first song?
I lived in point place Wisconsin during the 70s.
Ok, and...?
Remember when....
no fatties?...eee!!
Third picture is 80s. The Twin Towers didn't have that attena til 1979!
0:36 whats name of this fabric and what year was demolish