New York City 1986
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- Footage (no sound) my dad and uncle took on a drive into Manhattan from Long Island in 1986. Starts on Grand Central Parkway, past the big gas tanks (gone now) and Flushing Meadows, over the Queensboro Bridge, down to the Lower East Side and Stuyvesant Town where my dad revisits the place he grew up.
I love seeing all the old cars. I miss the days of the big chrome bumpers.
And little baby Japanese cars
Yes they were built stronger but most of them were pieces of junk why do I say that because they were most of those cars that people like so much required lots of maintenance to stay on the road and no they didn't last longer than the cars today the cars today are much better and they last much longer or oh but you still have to take care of them.
My thought exactly. Great cars back then, cars with character.
I have GAZ 24 Volga, year of release 1970 , created in 1965.
Looks like we're returning to those days (1960s-1980s), with the high crime rate and dirty streets, only without the cool cars, music, food, and so many other great things around back then.
I was 6 years old. What a time. Miss my dad!
May he rest peacefully! ❤
I was 4
Me too man
16 for me.
I was 3. I was defanitly straight outta the carseat. 😆 🤣
finally a old video fo NY that doesnt show time square... thanks
This is l.i.e. westbound towards midtown tunnel
It’s Times Square 🙄
I was only 24 or 25 depending on the month iam 61 now much better world then 😢
Its amazing how much automobiles change and upgrade every 10 years
We ain't seen nothing yet, baba ba babee! The rate of change is accelerating.
God… I miss the 80’s and I wasn’t even born then.
That makes you a poser, lol. 🤣
That's cool can I get the change from your lunch money..?
I feel you, this was 10 years before I was born. It's fascinating to see what the world looked like before my time.
@@halColombo only if I can give you a knuckle sandwich
The 1980s and the 1990s were the best decades for virtually everything including music, movies, culture, fashion, etc.
I love the footage. I recognize some of the highways. The same potholes that were in the video in 1986 are still there in 2022. LOL!!
Stop Bob.
That's such a Robert Wells thing to say.
@@dogwoodfan777 ???
Average Robert Wells W
ayyy robert wells!!!
I went to visit my Mom in Long Island this same year for the whole summer 1986 right before she moved to Queens. We took the same parkway to get to Manhattan a few times so this video brings back a lot of memories for me. When we took the bridge we’d usually drive on the lower deck roadway over the Queensbouro, and we loved to go to the South Street Seaport area.
Whole different country then. It was in healthy shape back in the 80s and it’s hard to believe in the state it’s currently in and at that time you wouldn’t have thought it was possible for that.
Yes sir, back when a republican who loved his country was the president. Back then we had good men in office. Now we have traitors......Very sad to see what has become of this once great land of ours. But hey, she had a good run.
@@ShawnCaldwell11 sad part too we had a lot of politicians too that were DC then are still today but turned our backs on us. Like Schumer is one of them that has betrayed us.
@@ShawnCaldwell11 Florida is where it’s at right now she’s very strong and no one has been able to mess with her.
You don't see those slums and ghettos they're driving through?
@@Drewsky840 Yeah New York had its share of bad neighborhoods with a shitload of crime and urban decay through the very early 90's. But there were tons of tight nit, working to middle class neighborhoods with friendly neighbors and little to zero crime that have all but disappeared. They've either gentrified (Greenpoint) or gone to utter shit (Canarsie). The majority of people who grew up in any of the boroughs prior to the 90's wouldn't change a thing, they loved their childhood and would do it all over again in a heartbeat. Nuance my man, gotta see the big picture.
Great days. City was hopping.
Block parties
Park parties
I wish I could go back lol
I was a sophomore in SUNY College at Old Westbury in 86 and we used to come around in NYC or some clubs. One of the ARENA that was on 14 th st very close to these last scenes of Stuy Town.
Now my kid is stayin' Stuy Town and goin' to collage now.
Thanks for bringing all the good memories of the GOLD 80's.
Impala/Caprice taxis; RTS buses... What designs! How they dressed the city! Thank you for allowing us to visit that city again!
Wow, this feelings hauntingly familiar. I grew up in Stuyvesant Town in the late 1970s and 1980s as a child. This feelings like it was directly recorded from my own memories. Not often does a video feel so close to home (literally).
For younger people who never saw the 80’s they really missed out on a great time in America..
Indeed. I was born in '96 and I even missed out on all of the Bulls Championships.
Was sound like. A recent invention?
I wish cars still look like this
Those gas towers! I remember them from when I was growing up in the 60's in Jamaica, queens.
Damn. A year before my folks got married. They lived in/right outside the city and would spend time together in NYC often. Trippy to see when I think about it. Thanks for the upload
Definitely brought back some memories.. I remember some of that old infrastructure that is no longer around today.. Those two massive gas tanks that stood near the LIE were dismantled about 25 years ago and now a small park occupies the land were they once stood..
i will get in my time machine lets go back to the 80s
Watching this brings me joy in life we must appreciate what we once had. God bless
Thanks for the nice video! I lived in New York City for 5 years starting in 1989, so I recognize some of the scenes in this video. For example, the bicycles painted on the walls of the buildings, which I also photographed myself. I am also making my own documentary about New York City in the early 1990s, so it was very interesting to watch.
unfortunately he was found dead
I too grew up on the Lower East Side of Manhattan, in the 1960s.
Looks like we're returning to those days, with the high crime rate and dirty streets, only without the cool cars, music, food, and so many other great things around back then.
Silver cup studios in Long Island City. Have to go back and check if Highlander was filmed before or after this footage.😊
I worked LIC around '85-'86.
I grew up there in the '70s and 80 so I remember all of these views
Came for the video, stayed for the soundtrack.
🤣🤣🤣
I put on some nice jazz music on another tab while watching this.
@2:21 I remember that gas structure. There was also one in 5 towns too. My fam road around in a '86 Eldorado that year. White with a dark maroon half-ragtop.
Awesome Video!!!! WOW! It Was Great Seeing All Of The Old Cars ON The Roads From Back Then! Thanks For Posting This Video!
I was living in LIC in queens in 1986. All those sights, like driving on the BQE and Queensboro Bridge were very familiar.
Ohh i love this cars
a great time to be in the City
I recognize 14th street and first Avenue. Stuyvesant town Manhattan. My building is directly behind the RS Strauss on 14th street and Avenue C. The Woolworth, Pete's a Place pizza, Beth Israel Medical Center. Basketball courts in Stuyvesant town where I played.
I was 3 at this time...defanitly straight out the carseat wit this one. 😆 🤣
I was 10 years old . It was those good old days it was good.
it sounds like the tape somehow picked up the electromagnetic current of the engine's revolutions? that's kinda cool
my car makes that noise as I drive. Must be the stereo system picking it up.
@@John_Lee_ yep. its probably something to do with the driveshaft or engine cam spinning and the stereo picking up the electromagnetic differences. kinda like a guitar pickup works :D
*im not an automotive/audio specialist. so, if i'm totally wrong i accept it with open arms lol
Could be Ignition noise, aka the high voltage that fires your spark plugs 👍😎
@@mrdiplomat9018 True!
It's the wires picking up the signal from the alternator 😉
The similarities between every vehicle makes the street look nice
Great video
I was 7 in 1986, wow
Youll still see cars from the 70s in this video! I ve had cars for as long as 10years!
Even longer. My mother's 1970 MonteCarlo was " metallic mint green ". It lasted way longer than ten years, thanks to my father. Then she got a 1979 Chevy Malibu, also metallic mint green. It was a very popular color. My father said that if people took care of their cars here like they did in Europe, they would also last for a few decades.
13:55 that DAGOSTINO supermarket is still there today.
replaced w fitness center ~15 years ago
D'agostino moved to 1st ave & 20th st
Thanks for this. I'm born and raised in NYC/Manhattan. I was 12 when this was filmed. I assume your Dad is the man in the red shirt with the excellent mustache (I have a mustache, too, so...)? The world was a rather different place, then.
I used to hang out at the metro mall all the time as a kid. It had a great view of queens.
Love It Thanks To Your DaD And Uncle.
Great video, keep up the good work.
I was 9 years old good memories
I lived in the lower east side then, 14 street, 1st ave, Strauss auto all changed. Stuyvesant town hasn’t changed much.
Let’s go back when NYC neighborhoods meant something.
Neighborhoods were tight knit and watched out for there own neighborhoods .
It has more neighborhoods now that it did in 1986.
For that, you need to bring back the Mafia. Not saying the Mafia is good, but the neighborhoods where the Mafia "played" were safer.
@@Pt0wN973b0iI very true. But also the neighborhood was closer with each other . Block parties... people hanging out on the stoop or on the corner. Etc
I was born in that year!
Very nice video! Most of the old videos of nyc only shows time square. Grand Central parkway hasn't changed much! The video quality held up very well for 1986. Do you recall what type of camera you used back then? Probably a sony Video8 type. =)
They changed the light posts on the Grand Central Parkway.
80's 90's the American decades.....
The latest of the best!
Any relation to comedian Ryan Long? He lives in Stuyvesant Town, and films about half his videos there.
PS: I largely grew up at 3 Stuyvesant Oval (1974-90). Thanks for the memories! 😂
My parents were just 23 (👩🏻) and 25 (👨🏻) at that time.
It's very noticeable how there were way less cars on the road and over crowding.
The Daily News building around 11:35 - by then the once-separate time and temp displays (courtesy General Indicator Corp., as the owner of All American Scoreboards was then known) had been replaced by a singular combo "Double TT" control from American Sign & Indicator (for it is their numeral font style displayed on that clock).
Wow I was at the time 9 years old . NYC seemed more calmer back then different also in a better way than it is now . Wish those times was again 🥲🥲
Good time when "The Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles" protected this city. 😂
Against shredder foot clan
Kris, is it okay if I use some of your Stuyvesant Town video in my own video. I grew up there in the late 1970s and 1980s? I wish to reflect on my own childhood in a poem and on my old man, who has since passed.
Great times, without a doubt. Stuyvesant Town, Peter Cooper Village. Always loved that side of town. Ess-A-Bagel, school 104.
Back in the days on the Boulevard of Linden...
I graduated from high school in 86
@1min the underpasses from the Van Wyck to Grand Central flooded for years. I wonder if it floods today?
Saw Mill River Parkway, still flods an has deadly crashes.
You can hear the old camcorder
The road conditions were better back then: less potholes, less tailgating, less speeding, etc, It made for a more pleasurable driving experience.
I liked the old ambulance livery. the white and orange.
I was 2 yrs old waab, real trowback to when I came in the world
Damn, that's a grown teenager
Nice miss the 80s. Miss the old Shea stadium
At 22:00 the sound goes really quiet. I would advise turning your volume all the way up
when the suburbs was still safe and clean!
There is a lot of Stuyvesantown shown here.
from apart mobiles and a few car makes i bet very little has really changed along that road?
Omg the memories of my childhood. The old Kosciusko Bridge and the Williamsburg tanks. RIP to both and to my old neighborhood that's now been ruined by gentrification and hipsters. I was 19 in 1986(with waist length hair that's now a cue ball lol). The old Greenpoint piers too. Unless you were armed, you didn't go there at night lol
Funny how new York was still pretty safe during this time 😂
i dont think so, criminals were able to get away easyli back then due to low technology or cameras around.
@@Luisml8 "in the past everything was bad and I'll name the issues with their technology as well ;)"
@@WitchKing-Of-Angmar yeah no cameras no cellphones no nothing so criminals were able to get away more often
@@Luisml8 that was sarcasm icecream. There were cameras, especially on major buildings, there were far more police, that city was basically a calm fortress back in the 1950's, there were plenty of pay phones and officer phones, and you couldn't get away with anything until about 11:00 to the early morning.
@@WitchKing-Of-Angmar that's not true u could kill someone no one would notice
Growing up in the sixties in the Bronx New York
it was beautiful people were so different I can’t accept such Deterioration caused by politicians who continue to destroy the entire country.
What part of Queens is that last part?
This is midtown /ues too.
15:20 Woolworth!
Мен туулган жыл экен😊😍
I guess this guy was too petrified to to drive in the South Bronx, Harlem, Bed Stuy, Brownsville & East New York
Can I use this footage for a Music Video?
I was a baby those days without the pandemics.
Thanks
Y can't we go back in time
Recognize GREENPOINT AND THE PIER on west street
Cars like a driver ps1
Beautiful video but I got motion sickness 🤮🤮
I was born in 1986.
19:03 Man, it must cost a fortune and a half to live there now... even if I had that much money though I still wouldn't live there now, with crime getting out of control in NYC. 😮💨
cidade escura ou frio mesmo...
It's so weird. Where's the traffic?
LOL.
9/7/1986
Didn't know they had cars then.
even the squirrels are gh3tt00
The projects
The Best in mens clothing thats Paul's Boutique and we're in Brooklyn
terribly muddled filming...was it then a child's doing?
16:08 BETH ISRAEL MEDICAL CENTER
I just looked it up on Google Earth - it's been renamed MOUNT SINAI BETH ISRAEL but otherwise still looks the same!
Strange…. No tents lots of American flags and American made cars. “This must be fake”
Shout-out to the Elmhurst Gas Tanks. Also the last time the Mets won the WS or is that the Bill Buckner WS bahahaha.
The hoods haven’t changed a bit
In 1986, all major cities looked to same lol.
I was 2 then, jus born in Bed Stuy