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.
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.
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.
@@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.
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).
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.
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.
@@Galidorquest Obama was terrible!… Mr. Do Nothing came into power in 2008 when things started to go downhill sharply!… As for Chicago, it looks like 3rd world city these days after the dumb people there repeatedly voted for radical left wing anti American mayors!
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
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.
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..
@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.
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
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 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.
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.
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.
@@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
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.
@@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
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. 😮💨
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. =)
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).
@@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.
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! 😂
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.
I was going on 13 back in 86 we went there in July when they did the concert for the Statue of Liberty and Lionel Richie was headlining it was a great time New York was New York back then not full of audience illegal immigrants now this whole country was awesome😢
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
It’s Times Square 🙄
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!!
That's such a Robert Wells thing to say.
@@dogwoodfan777 ???
Average Robert Wells W
ayyy robert wells!!!
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.
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.
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).
Impala/Caprice taxis; RTS buses... What designs! How they dressed the city! Thank you for allowing us to visit that city again!
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.
Watching this brings me joy in life we must appreciate what we once had. God bless
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.
New York, just like I pictured it ...I grew up in 60's and 70's in Forest Hills.. great neighborhood, miss all of NY , now in L.A. 🙃.... 🗽💙
God… I miss the 80’s and I wasn’t even born then.
That makes you a poser, lol. 🤣
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.
@@Galidorquest Obama was terrible!… Mr. Do Nothing came into power in 2008 when things started to go downhill sharply!… As for Chicago, it looks like 3rd world city these days after the dumb people there repeatedly voted for radical left wing anti American mayors!
I was only 24 or 25 depending on the month iam 61 now much better world then 😢
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?
UNITED STATES
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
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.
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
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..
Those gas towers! I remember them from when I was growing up in the 60's in Jamaica, queens.
I was living in LIC in queens in 1986. All those sights, like driving on the BQE and Queensboro Bridge were very familiar.
Great days. City was hopping.
Block parties
Park parties
I wish I could go back lol
I grew up there in the '70s and 80 so I remember all of these views
@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.
i will get in my time machine lets go back to the 80s
I wish cars still look like this
Great to see this video from a time when it was novel and only enjoyed by cutting-edge techies. I'll be back here often!
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
I used to hang out at the metro mall all the time as a kid. It had a great view of queens.
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 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.
a great time to be in the City
The similarities between every vehicle makes the street look nice
Love my birth year so much 1986 and i got to experience amqzing memories living on Staten Island and going to the city Manhattan
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.
13:55 that DAGOSTINO supermarket is still there today.
replaced w fitness center ~15 years ago
D'agostino moved to 1st ave & 20th st
Great video
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.
Great video, keep up the good work.
Love It Thanks To Your DaD And Uncle.
I was 7 in 1986, wow
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 😉
Came for the video, stayed for the soundtrack.
🤣🤣🤣
I put on some nice jazz music on another tab while watching this.
Ohh i love this cars
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.
80's 90's the American decades.....
The latest of the best!
I graduated from high school in 86
I was born in that year!
My parents were just 23 (👩🏻) and 25 (👨🏻) at that time.
Good time when "The Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles" protected this city. 😂
Against shredder foot clan
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 🥲🥲
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
15:20 Woolworth!
@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.
I was 3 at this time...defanitly straight out the carseat wit this one. 😆 🤣
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. 😮💨
At 22:00 the sound goes really quiet. I would advise turning your volume all the way up
It all still looks so dreary today. When will the US move past infrastructure for the movement of cars, and to the movement of people?
Damn, that's a grown teenager
I was 2 yrs old waab, real trowback to when I came in the world
I was 9 years old good memories
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.
I guess this guy was too petrified to to drive in the South Bronx, Harlem, Bed Stuy, Brownsville & East New York
You can hear the old camcorder
Watching old vids like this I like to wonder what I was doing at this exact time back then. I would've been 5 or 6
I liked the old ambulance livery. the white and orange.
There is a lot of Stuyvesantown shown here.
The road conditions were better back then: less potholes, less tailgating, less speeding, etc, It made for a more pleasurable driving experience.
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).
I was born in 1986.
It's very noticeable how there were way less cars on the road and over crowding.
When America was still America
Nice miss the 80s. Miss the old Shea stadium
Y can't we go back in time
I was a baby those days without the pandemics.
Thanks
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
when the suburbs was still safe and clean!
What part of Queens is that last part?
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! 😂
Can I use this footage for a Music Video?
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.
Cars like a driver ps1
Мен туулган жыл экен😊😍
from apart mobiles and a few car makes i bet very little has really changed along that road?
Recognize GREENPOINT AND THE PIER on west street
A time wen only d strong survive
Back when the strong survived.
9/7/1986
even the squirrels are gh3tt00
Great times, without a doubt. Stuyvesant Town, Peter Cooper Village. Always loved that side of town. Ess-A-Bagel, school 104.
Beautiful video but I got motion sickness 🤮🤮
This is midtown /ues too.
In 1986, all major cities looked to same lol.
Didn't know they had cars then.
NYC in 86 was THE PLACE TO BE LGM 2022
Let’s go Yankees 2022
I was going on 13 back in 86 we went there in July when they did the concert for the Statue of Liberty and Lionel Richie was headlining it was a great time New York was New York back then not full of audience illegal immigrants now this whole country was awesome😢
Strange…. No tents lots of American flags and American made cars. “This must be fake”
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!
The Best in mens clothing thats Paul's Boutique and we're in Brooklyn
It's so weird. Where's the traffic?
LOL.