The music is the perfect accompaniment for this great video, it shows the America I fell in love with. I immigrated to the US in 1958 from the UK Things do change so much over time but I must say the present America would not have inspired me to come here. Now there is so much hatred and chaos political correctness is killing the spirit of this great country.
Looks like Park Avenue has always been home to both the haves and the have-nots. In today's New York, window washing as seen at 3:04 would result in a telephone call to 911 reporting a jumper. I remember those two-lens, green-and-red traffic lights from visiting my grandmother's apartment in Parkchester during the 1960s; would have liked to have gotten my hands on one when the city phased them out.
My girlfriend and I found a turtle on park Avenue, right on the green strip in the center (that divides the north and south direction ) we kept "myrtle " until I released it in the woods in a pond in East Brunswick, N.J .Myrtle ran with glee into the water ,thrilled, never to be seen again.
Fantastic. The view of the then new office building at 405 Park Avenue was a harbinger of things to come. There was still some brick used for the facade but soon even that would give way to the steel and glass monsters now lining Park Ave. Hope they collapse and shatter now that tenants will be scarce due to remote working.
You'll never get told that your tax-dollars are going towards the upkeep of these 'white-elephant' glass-and-concrete towers: their developers just can't lose It's been rumoured that the Trump property developments around New York received (in various ways) nearly a billion dollars from the public purse, from the pockets of Leona Helmsley's "little people".
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Wild to think everyone in this film is old now. Even the kids and babies.
Magnificent old video. God bless those in the video, living or deceased
A slice of life in 1950. Thanks
Greetings from Poland... eating ice screams I'm resting after hard day with Your new 2 videos. Thanks for trip in space and time...
Would have been a great time to live in New York.
Thanks.
Lovely nostalgia! I used to work with a guy lived on 96th and Park, who always described his building as the "first tenement on Park Avenue"!
I'll take 1950 / 2020 any day
The music is the perfect accompaniment for this great video, it shows the America I fell in love with. I immigrated to the US in 1958 from the UK
Things do change so much over time but I must say the present America would not have inspired me to come here. Now there is so much hatred and chaos
political correctness is killing the spirit of this great country.
How did you feel about America in the mid to late 1960s?
Good pictures..thank's and nice greetings from germany 🙂
Thank you for sharing.
NYC Greatest city in the world
5:19 Good to always look both ways before crossing the street
Looks like Park Avenue has always been home to both the haves and the have-nots. In today's New York, window washing as seen at 3:04 would result in a telephone call to 911 reporting a jumper. I remember those two-lens, green-and-red traffic lights from visiting my grandmother's apartment in Parkchester during the 1960s; would have liked to have gotten my hands on one when the city phased them out.
I'm interested in using clips of this video on a project, can I do it? Thanks in advance
The original footage is in the public domain. You can download it from here: archive.org/details/rpparkavenue
Cool beyond description. I'd give anything to have been 25yrs in those days.
My girlfriend and I found a turtle on park Avenue, right on the green strip in the center (that divides the north and south direction ) we kept "myrtle " until I released it in the woods in a pond in East Brunswick, N.J .Myrtle ran with glee into the water ,thrilled, never to be seen again.
Great to view this dimension of time. America at its apex.
Love my city in any decade.
I"m so nostalgic of this particular grey wire mesh (at the end). American are geniuses in wire mesh design & a lot more things :)
96 street and park was the night and day difference in money. The slums were north of 96 street. What a time it was
Hundreds of people on the sidewalks, all going about their business, too busy to have time for hate.
No time for hate? Tell that to the 50s neighborhood street gangs.
Hi Rick!
Fantastic. The view of the then new office building at 405 Park Avenue was a harbinger of things to come. There was still some brick used for the facade but soon even that would give way to the steel and glass monsters now lining Park Ave. Hope they collapse and shatter now that tenants will be scarce due to remote working.
You'll never get told that your tax-dollars are going towards the upkeep of these 'white-elephant' glass-and-concrete towers: their developers just can't lose It's been rumoured that the Trump property developments around New York received (in various ways) nearly a billion dollars from the public purse, from the pockets of Leona Helmsley's "little people".
Long before the curse of the spray can.
Music please
Full credits at the end.
The music doesn't match too much static but ok.
В окнах начали появляются кондиционеры.
you see how clean new York looked back then now it looks dirty and nasty
5:21 ✅😃👌🏼
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