@@Ax-vd7kk crack fell off, that was the reason, and NYC dealers either went to jail or fled to Baltimore,DC,VA, and everywhere else, where prices were higher,
A sober reminder for those who call the NYC of the 80's "better times" and other platitudes. I see it in all the comments of videos from that time. This is the past revisiting early 2022.
Really? In 1980s NYC, you could still have genuine friends and family and it was nowhere near as crowded as it is now since old neighborhoods have gotten bulldozed and replaced with multiple family apartment buildings. This city is a sanitized looking sham with no soul.
They call the 10 years of Ed Koch’s NYC “better times” yet call the four years of David Dinkins’ NYC the most dangerous in the city’s history. It makes no sense.
There's one big difference between the 70's and 80's crime in NYC and today. Much more guns today in NYC and more violent crimes today. Crimes back then were like graffiti!
@@destinilund4771 NYC once had a strong middle class presence. You could afford to live there making a working class salary. Entire generations of families knew nothing but city life and they were called city hicks. There also used to be a lot of manufacturing centered around Brooklyn. People moved to the city to start a new life with nothing in their pockets just by opening up a stand selling magazines or walking into a television studio pre 9/11. Maybe there is less crime today but it has become a city for elites and no opportunity for those who aren't highly educated with already money in their pockets. The upper middle class made up of doctors and lawyers can barely afford to live there.
@@destinilund4771 To speak of the opportunity. Think of guys like Larry David, Woody Allen, Bob Dylan, Billy Joel. Absolute penniless musicians, actors, writers, comedians who lived in Manhattan and Greenwhich Village, and were able to find immense opportunity for themselves without a penny to their name. That New York City is long gone. It was replaced by greed.
@@l.n963 I agree with you a hundred percent. This law that they created this bail reform state law is going to set up New York for years to come to become the city it was in the 80s.
I remember Madonna's speech at Billboard Music Awards where she said New York was a scary place. that was 1979 and I didn't know that it was then unsafe in 80s.
I grew up 70s 80s nyc it was crazy but back then it was the norm i really didnt know anything else until 90s came around and it started to ease i think highest homicide was 1990 with over 2200 .crack started a even bigger wave around 1987 it was crazy
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@@newyorker6890 You love Mayor DeBlasio? With all due respect, where are you typing this from? A gated limousine liberal community in Scarsdale? If you actually lived in NYC it clearly evident this Mayor and the liberal judicial system, have turned NYC into an open sewer.
For those that have this weird affinity for Ed Koch keep in mind that he was mayor during this time and for most of the 80’s, the decade that is unquestionably the most dangerous in the history of the city.
Happy New Year! It’s now officially 40 years since the year that was the REAL start of the 80s, thanks to the launch of MTV(with The Buggles’ music video “Video Killed The Radio Star”), the election of Ronald Reagan, and the marriage of Lady Diana and Prince Charles.
Born 1980 bronx new york, shit was definitely wild when i was growing up as a kid. There was also a time in the 90s that people were getting killed over jordans and 8 ball jackets.
1981 ended up becoming the worst year in NYC up to that point with 1,832 homicides. 1982-1984 saw a decrease. The first half of 1985 it dipped even lower compared to the first half of the previous year, but the second half of 1985 a little drug hit the streets.....
First story... murder on Pacific Street in Brooklyn. My maternal grandma(with whom we were staying as we were visiting from Buffalo over the holidays) didn't live too far from there.
Oooh Man.... What a Classic 1980... That's Was a Hella of Year in NYC Folkz Tru3talk Tru3Story 💯.... Happy New Year's 2020..an Blessings too you an your family 👪 always Tru3talk Tru3Story 💯....
Happy new year It’s now officially 40 years since the year that was the REAL start of the 80s, thanks to the launch of MTV(with The Buggles’ music video “Video Killed The Radio Star”), the election of Ronald Reagan, and the marriage of Lady Diana and Prince Charles.
2:29 It's exactly the same today, with the virus putting countless tens of thousands out of work or out of business. Tempers are short today; and with fewer people on the street due to the pandemic, it is wide-open for criminal activity.
Wow this is the trifecta for an expat Aussie . Channel 9 in Sydney pinched the exact dramatic music for their News intro . Channel 10 in Sydney tagged their news bulletins as Eyewitness News and Channel 7 in Sydney had the exact logo as the 7 logo on the screen here . Trippy.
This when my family moved. My early teenage years and my family moved to New Hampshire after my father was laid off. Looking back I am glad we did. Once you got into JR High and then High School there was less shelter because you left your neighborhood. By the eras standards I was no tough guy and I got to finish growing up without looking over my shoulder at school or walking somewhere. The kids in NH could;d be pretty scrappy but I had no issues there. I knew I wasn’t going to get thrown down a flight of stairs or mugged in the bathroom. I do have some great memories of NYC It’s where my family is from.
You’re saying that the police officers think that guns contributed more to the murders when the guns were 50% as a 1700 murders for that year just in New York city.
@so Dumb it is not getting worse, there is no way that its getting worse, its way safer and better now 2010s to 2021 compared to the 70s -90s, much better nowadays
NYC had 433 homicides last year. NYC reached 2,245 in 1990. The 433 was a decline from nearly 500 in 2021. Still the number of murders in NYC is still down more than 80% from the peak in 1990.
yup the first murder 2021 happened after midnight. same thing gonna happen again. wait till the snow storms are over and another lockdown starts. history repeats itself
I grew up in the former Soviet bloc (Czechoslovakia) in the 70s and 80s. And I remember as a child short shots from New York on the main news (there was only 1 channel) commenting on how terrible life is in the West and under capitalism. I see it wasn't easy. We had about 5 murders a year in that period.
@@jamesjones2173 Biden was one of the architechs of 3 strikes while he was a senator. and it didn't help black folks one bit! But "If you don't vote for me you ain't black!"
Coming from London we find it strange when you hear New Yorkers saying crimes getting worse in 2022 when you've seen those numbers in the past.....London is a very safe city compared, probably only for murder but everything else is similar.
@@Boston_Police_isagang You are so correct, I’m tired of people be saying that this generation is so bad and worse...back in the late 60s to the mid 90s..NYC was a war zone..today Times is a cake walk
I was a infant I would of been turning a year old in September wow new york was cray cray back then let's not forget crack came on the scene things would go from bad to worse 🤦🤦
Wow. Sad. Not much has changed. Crime increases everywhere because we are in the Last Days (2 Timothy 3:1-5) and the whole world is divided (Daniel 2:41-43). The truth is this: humans cannot control a thing, because wickedness control the world (1 John 5:19).
1784!!!!! Omggggg that’s a lot cuz they didn’t have all the for basics and cc tv. A lot of people think twice cuz of that now thank god! Not to mention has set so many innocent free. Well probably almost break 1000
Yup I said the same thing. Give it 3 summers and watch the homicides go back to 2,000 a year. Get ya 🍿 popcorn kids because we finna see the greatest murder show in the land. Stay tuned..
NYC will never meet that limit again. Y’all saying it’s changing cause of the pandemic but it’s been nowhere near that and even when it was normal it was never dangerous
@@D_a_yyy #1 Nobody is praying it gets to that level. So relax Homie. #2 Ny will always be dangerous. Ny had too many elements to be a safe city. Also, most people in the city know that they don't even give you accurate crime numbers. So what ever is the murder toll for NYC, just understand that the real number is alot higher then you think. But we all have our own opinion.
blacksultan85 I wrote this a while back nobody wants murders n kios no but I hate that this city is programmed now I’ll take this b4 life being programmed on social media etc etc any day
1990 TOPPED NYC's previous records of a little over 2, 200 fatalities that year.. THE NOTORIOUS ERA.
Big FACTS, I still remember visiting family members in Harlem and kids were throwing cats off the roof, it was May 1990 W. 150th
@@delma8937 dafuq... what was wrong with these children, smh.
@@UltimateRaven41 and yet the generation from the 80s say kids arer worsee now
@@Ax-vd7kk crack fell off, that was the reason, and NYC dealers either went to jail or fled to Baltimore,DC,VA, and everywhere else, where prices were higher,
@@Ax-vd7kk THE 1994 CRIME REPORT
A sober reminder for those who call the NYC of the 80's "better times" and other platitudes. I see it in all the comments of videos from that time. This is the past revisiting early 2022.
True. While the 80s was great decade, I would’ve not wanted to live in 1980s NYC 😂
yup its the teens that say that bullshyt .. of course any teen era is good no bills no rules partying and bullshyt .. ..
Really? In 1980s NYC, you could still have genuine friends and family and it was nowhere near as crowded as it is now since old neighborhoods have gotten bulldozed and replaced with multiple family apartment buildings. This city is a sanitized looking sham with no soul.
They call the 10 years of Ed Koch’s NYC “better times” yet call the four years of David Dinkins’ NYC the most dangerous in the city’s history. It makes no sense.
There's one big difference between the 70's and 80's crime in NYC and today. Much more guns today in NYC and more violent crimes today. Crimes back then were like graffiti!
Say what you want about NYC back then, today it's a city for millionaires.
No. _Billionaires._
New york city was more funnier to live or visit back then than now.
I wasnt born yet. Was NYC a place for poor?
@@destinilund4771 NYC once had a strong middle class presence. You could afford to live there making a working class salary. Entire generations of families knew nothing but city life and they were called city hicks. There also used to be a lot of manufacturing centered around Brooklyn. People moved to the city to start a new life with nothing in their pockets just by opening up a stand selling magazines or walking into a television studio pre 9/11. Maybe there is less crime today but it has become a city for elites and no opportunity for those who aren't highly educated with already money in their pockets. The upper middle class made up of doctors and lawyers can barely afford to live there.
@@destinilund4771 To speak of the opportunity. Think of guys like Larry David, Woody Allen, Bob Dylan, Billy Joel. Absolute penniless musicians, actors, writers, comedians who lived in Manhattan and Greenwhich Village, and were able to find immense opportunity for themselves without a penny to their name. That New York City is long gone. It was replaced by greed.
And people think crime in 2022 is out of control. NYC of today is Mayberry compared to the 80's and early 90's.
yes today but what about the coming years? its very unstable if sone kind of new drug or whatever comes it will be very bad
Not really. You have to look at the types of crimes back then. Far fewer gun crimes and other violent crimes. More graffiti and softer crimes.
@@l.n963 I agree with you a hundred percent. This law that they created this bail reform state law is going to set up New York for years to come to become the city it was in the 80s.
@@CoolAce1 im sorry are you saying softer crime then because there was 1600 to 2200 murder depending on the year and 400 murders now
@@l.n963Well yes. Crime has risen in the past few years, but is still a pittance of what it was once back then
I remember Madonna's speech at Billboard Music Awards where she said New York was a scary place.
that was 1979 and I didn't know that it was then unsafe in 80s.
I grew up 70s 80s nyc it was crazy but back then it was the norm i really didnt know anything else until 90s came around and it started to ease i think highest homicide was 1990 with over 2200 .crack started a even bigger wave around 1987 it was crazy
Nyc was more funnier till Bill Clinton was potus
You must be way off, Madonna was unknown in 1979 and so she was at no awards.
1999 gangs group was in every corner in NYC
@@MisterPolitical1 This makes no sense
Who else is watching this in 2021 and thanking DeBlasio for the dejavú feeling.
So you're comparing almost 1,800 murders to a few dozen? Your ignorance is glaring and your agenda is not hidden. Thank Mr mayor we love you.
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@@kp5209 Ad hominem much?
@@newyorker6890 You love Mayor DeBlasio? With all due respect, where are you typing this from? A gated limousine liberal community in Scarsdale? If you actually lived in NYC it clearly evident this Mayor and the liberal judicial system, have turned NYC into an open sewer.
Watching it right now just typed in murders in the 90’s and this popped up
1:58 "Killed through someone else's design". 1:26 "Why?" "People are uptight with the economy..so tempers are very short". Good old days!
History repeats itself
For those that have this weird affinity for Ed Koch keep in mind that he was mayor during this time and for most of the 80’s, the decade that is unquestionably the most dangerous in the history of the city.
Excellent footage of 1981! My birthyear!
Me too! December 8, 1981. Year to the day after Lennon.
Happy New Year!
It’s now officially 40 years since the year that was the REAL start of the 80s, thanks to the launch of MTV(with The Buggles’ music video “Video Killed The Radio Star”), the election of Ronald Reagan, and the marriage of Lady Diana and Prince Charles.
February 1980 I was born
11-29-1981
@@ANT96-x8d
The '80s didn't really start until about 1983 or '84.
There was still a lot hanging over from the 1970s until then.
That was the last year I lived in New York. Never went back.
History actually does repeat itself
In the post-NYE story, John Slattery reported on it. RIP, John.
The best part of waking up is Folgers in your cup
Born 1980 bronx new york, shit was definitely wild when i was growing up as a kid. There was also a time in the 90s that people were getting killed over jordans and 8 ball jackets.
You're right! I'm 1980 Staten Island NY remember playing with crack viles like Legos in the school yard during recess
1981 ended up becoming the worst year in NYC up to that point with 1,832 homicides. 1982-1984 saw a decrease. The first half of 1985 it dipped even lower compared to the first half of the previous year, but the second half of 1985 a little drug hit the streets.....
crack kills
1990 was the worst
@@je9212 I know. I said "up to that point"....
First story... murder on Pacific Street in Brooklyn. My maternal grandma(with whom we were staying as we were visiting from Buffalo over the holidays) didn't live too far from there.
Oooh Man.... What a Classic 1980... That's Was a Hella of Year in NYC Folkz
Tru3talk Tru3Story 💯....
Happy New Year's 2020..an Blessings too you an your family 👪 always Tru3talk Tru3Story 💯....
Don’t 2021 feel like it’s going in that direction?
1800 murders a year?
Nah, it’d be worse than usual but not as bad as let’s say1990
Nah only like 500 for 2022
Got much worse later in the decade. Was a child in NY in those days.
One of those murders was of John Lennon sad. I was born in 1982.
39 years 4 months 23 days ago!
Happy new year
It’s now officially 40 years since the year that was the REAL start of the 80s, thanks to the launch of MTV(with The Buggles’ music video “Video Killed The Radio Star”), the election of Ronald Reagan, and the marriage of Lady Diana and Prince Charles.
You mean the _inauguration_ of Ronald Reagan?
@@johnnyballenatl That’s what I meant
2:29 It's exactly the same today, with the virus putting countless tens of thousands out of work or out of business. Tempers are short today; and with fewer people on the street due to the pandemic, it is wide-open for criminal activity.
Stop Defunding the Police. History repeats itself. We need more Police Period.
Well Chicago is the real MVP 40 years later
You can’t compare 500 or so murders to over 2000 for several years. Chicago is Iraq and NYC back then was Somalia.
@@J4RMAMS Chicago has over 800 plus every year while Ny like 300 no comparison at all
MVP ? It aint a competition .
@@jaylenflanagan1295 Chicago has 700 hundred nyc at its most was 2,500 stop it plus nyc gave you al Capone and Michael Jordan go away
@@MERCURYSUNSET people from Chicago are jealous and stupid
Lead era was insane.
As bad as things may seem now, I’d never want to go back to times like this.
1:03 RIP
Trauma centers at hospitals are way more advanced today than they were back then,
i guess joker movie was inspired by this
Only in NYC?.In 1965,SouthVietnam, almost the same number of U.S. servicemen were killed.
We talking about in the United States fool, not some third world War torn country
@@mh7067
War torn thanks to the U S of A.
Wait. NYC kills more than Vietnam war?
@@destinilund4771 back then
NYC was this bad 40 years ago
IIRC, the night before had the story of a man who was found in the trunk of a car with three bullets in the back of his head.
Wow this is the trifecta for an expat Aussie . Channel 9 in Sydney pinched the exact dramatic music for their News intro . Channel 10 in Sydney tagged their news bulletins as Eyewitness News and Channel 7 in Sydney had the exact logo as the 7 logo on the screen here . Trippy.
This when my family moved. My early teenage years and my family moved to New Hampshire after my father was laid off. Looking back I am glad we did. Once you got into JR High and then High School there was less shelter because you left your neighborhood. By the eras standards I was no tough guy and I got to finish growing up without looking over my shoulder at school or walking somewhere. The kids in NH could;d be pretty scrappy but I had no issues there. I knew I wasn’t going to get thrown down a flight of stairs or mugged in the bathroom.
I do have some great memories of NYC It’s where my family is from.
You ran away. We dont care about your story
There was a lot of slashers running around back then
Born November 13th of that year!
You’re saying that the police officers think that guns contributed more to the murders when the guns were 50% as a 1700 murders for that year just in New York city.
Daaaaannmmm ppl was tweaking back then 🤦♂️
Seems like nothing have changed if you ask me
@@Jesus_Savess You’re definitely lying
@so Dumb it is not getting worse, there is no way that its getting worse, its way safer and better now 2010s to 2021 compared to the 70s -90s, much better nowadays
@@Jesus_Savess its changed by a lot, you rarley see this happen in ny like it used to. Its gotten a lot safer
The Bronx is the funniest place in the big Apple because of low income residents + higher crime areas
How is it "funny"?
2022 and nothing has changed literally
NYC had 433 homicides last year. NYC reached 2,245 in 1990. The 433 was a decline from nearly 500 in 2021. Still the number of murders in NYC
is still down more than 80% from the peak in 1990.
@@jalenbarlow1303 yes agree i grew up in those times
@@joeorton1218 then why did you say that nothing has changed? Keep living in ignorance
Well it’s 2024 and it’s nothing like back then
We are living in the 80s
You wish
Look at it now bout to reach that number cuz of de blasio
yup the first murder 2021 happened after midnight. same thing gonna happen again. wait till the snow storms are over and another lockdown starts. history repeats itself
@@l.n963 wait for the coming "Summer Of Love"
Nowhere close you sound so crazy
Everything comes back full circle, eh?
I grew up in the former Soviet bloc (Czechoslovakia) in the 70s and 80s. And I remember as a child short shots from New York on the main news (there was only 1 channel) commenting on how terrible life is in the West and under capitalism. I see it wasn't easy. We had about 5 murders a year in that period.
Giuliani cleaned it all up!
14 years later
@@jasonarias6226 Welcome back to old bad days.
Giuliani didn’t do it by himself..bill Clinton 3 strike law and President Jo’e Biden crime bill help also
No he didn't.
A previous mayor called DAVID DINKINS put more police on NY streets, and brought crime rates down.
But he never gets credit for it.
@@jamesjones2173
Biden was one of the architechs of 3 strikes while he was a senator. and it didn't help black folks one bit!
But "If you don't vote for me you ain't black!"
9 million people live in that city.
3:19
i wish i could go back to this ny get wasted going crazy through new york with switchblades and stealing cars til the nypd got me
Lmao! And BLM will defend you. And if you died, your family would cry and say you were such a good person. 😂
Here we go again. 2020
Yeah.... I don't think you are from NY if you think 2020 is ANYWHERE as bad as 1980, unless you are being sarcastic
Buckle up nyc its going to be a bumpy 2021
History repeats itself.
Gritty NY or Hipster Gentrification too expensive to live NY ?
Gritty NYC any day!!!
NYC is worse in 2022. Where is Bernie Goetz when you need him?
No it's not
Brainwash alert
Nyc and Seattle a liberal paradise
1990 will surpass 2200 homicides
Coming from London we find it strange when you hear New Yorkers saying crimes getting worse in 2022 when you've seen those numbers in the past.....London is a very safe city compared, probably only for murder but everything else is similar.
What the FUNGOOL!!!😳
That means a lot to me but warning I have hidden enemies
40 years later New York City has gotten worse, despite the coronavirus pandemic in 2020.
No it hasn't
Fake pandemic
It is nowhere near what it used to be. Back then every time and at any timeof the day you got on the subway, you were in grave danger.
@@Boston_Police_isagang You are so correct, I’m tired of people be saying that this generation is so bad and worse...back in the late 60s to the mid 90s..NYC was a war zone..today Times is a cake walk
You have no idea what you're talking about lmao
Lol @ people saying nyc is bad now lol
LOL people who say that either are outsiders or have never lived back then 😂
Where's Bernhard Goetz?
New York NEEDS him!
2:23 2021: "lolll"
Looks like alot of cold cases in 1980 and '81.
2021 copying that year
I was a infant I would of been turning a year old in September wow new york was cray cray back then let's not forget crack came on the scene things would go from bad to worse 🤦🤦
that was some mob shit going on back then
Brooklyn, Harlem & the Bronx is the funniest areas to laugh & visit because they're ghetto areas
What do you mean by ghetto Paul 🧐
And what's funny about them? The whole manhattan is a ghetto, why mention harlem?
@@mh7067 GET THEM MAN HOOD
@@mh7067 because Spanish harlem aka el barrio has less english speakers + more Spanish speakers from Latin America.
@@mh7067 manhattan was a high crime area in the 80s but to a small degree.
NYC again
Wow. Sad. Not much has changed. Crime increases everywhere because we are in the Last Days (2 Timothy 3:1-5) and the whole world is divided (Daniel 2:41-43). The truth is this: humans cannot control a thing, because wickedness control the world (1 John 5:19).
Crime is going up tourists might not feel safe to visit
perfect
@@ro-lk1qe the reality of the 80s is the same situation as we living now
@@Frankieefootballmundial so true lol I said perfect cuz the tourists are so annoying lool they get in the way all the time
Crack hit the streets hard b@k then too..
This was 4 years before crack
1784!!!!! Omggggg that’s a lot cuz they didn’t have all the for basics and cc tv. A lot of people think twice cuz of that now thank god! Not to mention has set so many innocent free. Well probably almost break 1000
2022 ain't nothing changed.
Compared to over a thousand homicides back then, NYC is way tame now
The weakest ever being?
How about now?
When you thank God you don't live in the USA!!!!
Well, well, well...NYC’s back to
It’s crime riddled hey days. The more things change. The more things stay the same.
Yup I said the same thing. Give it 3 summers and watch the homicides go back to 2,000 a year. Get ya 🍿 popcorn kids because we finna see the greatest murder show in the land. Stay tuned..
Y’all really praying people get killed 😹sad ash smj
NYC will never meet that limit again. Y’all saying it’s changing cause of the pandemic but it’s been nowhere near that and even when it was normal it was never dangerous
@@D_a_yyy #1 Nobody is praying it gets to that level. So relax Homie. #2 Ny will always be dangerous. Ny had too many elements to be a safe city. Also, most people in the city know that they don't even give you accurate crime numbers. So what ever is the murder toll for NYC, just understand that the real number is alot higher then you think. But we all have our own opinion.
@@kenanmccaleb8327 whatever fake boy😹. For that case then every city has inaccurate numbers 😹. You think you smart but you not
Too bad nothing has changed 😔 too much people dying these days
Liar
@@dubreil07 ???
Fourty+ years, later and nothing has changed.
except 500 murders 2022 vs 1800 murders 1981 and 100k robberies 1981 vs 13k 2022 but i guess
When Giuliani and governor pataki was in office everything changed nyc was so safe .and cleaned up .
@@je9212 wrong crime was already dropping 3 years before giuliani try again
@@elias560 1990 was the highest in murders what are you talking about
@@elias560 you must be young .42 street was prostitution everywhere. Up to 1993 94
I was only 2
Why nyc can’t be like this
*why?*
blacksultan85 I wrote this a while back nobody wants murders n kios no but I hate that this city is programmed now I’ll take this b4 life being programmed on social media etc etc any day
It’s on it’s way now
@@truthbetold3104 Facts!!! I’ll take grimy, dirty NYC any day than what the city is now
@@zaybx3485 nah, nowhere even near, nyc is still safe
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