I miss the 90s so much, it was the last decade of simplicity, the music was so diverse and actually had some creativity behind it, people appreciated the simple things. I’d give anything to go back
'the last decade of simplicity' what nonsense I was there it was pretty much identical to now. I think back and I really can't see much difference between then and now. Life was just as complicated then as it is now, it hasn't changed.
@Goat.. And on some other side of planet, totally opposite of that... Wars, Destroying and devastation of one culture and diversity, bad propaganda, deaths, NATO bombs faling around, totally ruining moral values. All to make your imperia richer.
Born in 1977 so I got most of the benefit of the 90s. You shouldn't look back it was a great decade but you can replicate a lot of the benefits. Meet up with friends and family in real life as much as possible. Limit your time on social media. Know your neighbours better than you do people thousands of miles away. If you're a parent, don't think there's a murderer behind every tree, there isn't so let your kids play out. When you go to bed, leave your phone in another room. I know I'm a hypocrite writing this on social media but we're on this video because we miss the 90s even if we weren't even born. It was definitely the last "simple" decade.
If you don’t mind me asking, we’re you alive back then and how was it like living in that time? Because I’ve always wondered how the 90s were like because I’m personally never going to know because I was born in 2002.
@@cocotaveras8975 Yes I was alive back then, while I wasn't in NY I did live in a major city. This video reminded me a lot of typical feel of a daily routine at the time.The Early 90s were much different from late 90s, in the same way life in 2011 and 2019 were quite different as well.
@@cocotaveras8975 I grew up in Brooklyn in the 80's and the 90's. The best way to describe it was classic. Golden Era Hip Hop , 80s and 90s NY sports teams , and all kinds of places to visit and have fun.
On a good Saturday morning, before you turn on social media, and you look out your window and you imagine a world where everybody knew the arrow of progress was going forward, it may not be great, but things were always going to get better than before and people looked at one reality and humanity seemed like it might be converging, you get a little wave of optimism, makes you feel like wearing brightly coloured baggy clothes.... and you think "we'll be back there someday"... well, there it is, that's the 90's.
I'll never forget living in NYC with my late uncle for several months. I was 13 years old, and it was a time I still think back on a lot. I used to walk through Wall Street and being mesmerized on the daily by the amount of men and women who I thought were millionaires walking by me. I remember skateboarding through Central Park and breaking my arm. I remember my uncle giving me a daily allowance that I splurged on hot dog stands or bodegas. I remember the two bedroom condominium at 99 John street that my uncle owned up to his passing where I had my own room for the first time in my life. Above all, I remember the amount of children and teenagers my age would roam freely around the streets of NYC, specifically the Financial district; we got into trouble, we kept each other out of trouble, and we were like family eating at one another's house and having sleep overs. I think the problem with today's era--meaning the early 2010s and current years--is that the world became too connected via technology. The 90s were an individualistic era; younger people moved out of their parents house earlier; we experimented and came to our own conclusions without the influence of the media or today's social media influencers; we experienced life in a stream of conscious manner. That is the triumph of this particular decade--it was all about experience, and someone mentioned in the comments below that this experience was due to the "right balance of technology" being present/accessible. I'm not going to condemn the modern world, but if I had a time machine, I would go back to the 90s in a heartbeat; make better choices, explore other paths, but experience it nonetheless. For some of you, mainly younger ones, it is just a decade, but for me and people who hold this decade dearly to our hearts, the 90s was an emotion.
I was 16 in 1993, i liked the ear i grew up in being a child of the late 70's, it had many problems but yes life was more simple i guess back then before all this social media was unleashed in the World.
don't worry. I was there. The decade was nothing special. The 80s and 70s did have some character. But despite what people in this comment section will tell you, the 90s were much the same as now, just not as many mobile phones (although they were starting to come in then and becoming ubiquitous fast, so it's not the mobile/cell free utopia some people who weren't born or were young children at the time think..)
@Extra it is when people start being nostalgic for the late 2000's and 2010's. I remember people crapping on everything that was happening at the time. Now it's beloved.
I miss the 80s and 90s so much and I'm sorry for the young people who never experienced the world pre-911. Everything started to change after that. But I'm happily surprised to see that there are some young people who are curious about this time. It felt so much warmer, safer, innocent and hopeful ❤️
every romantic side has its negative side. i Wouldn´t call historical peaks in crime in the 80s and 90s, especially in NYC as "warmer, safer, innocent".
@@gammler0852 the 90s were still the best. Ppl were much happier than today, less stressed, more curious, more innocent, and just lived simpler lives. No more Cold War, crime rates were also going down, less segregation and internal conflicts in society, and America was literally living at its peak era for being the world’s strongest economic powerhouse. Society was simply getting better overall. America was truly the world’s superpower back then!
@@hellfreezer3037 it's not the 90s you miss, it's youth. we all look back at our youth and past with rose colored lenses. A great movie that describes this phenomenon is Midnight in Paris. Watch it if you have not. I used to be like you, pining for the past, but that movie made me get some perspective that the past always seems better because the present is unsatisfying. All we can do is say a prayer of thanks we are alive today and make the most of it. Listen to music, hold your loved ones close, go for a walk, enjoy a meal and try to remember that happiness comes from within :)
I was 15-16 in 1993. Life for me just revolved around going to school, playing Super Nintendo, listening to music, watching WWF and MTV. I had it easy.
I’m about 3 years late to comment on this video, but I enjoyed every bit of it. ‘93 was the year I was born, and though I only spent 6 years in the ‘90s the nostalgia can be overwhelming. Sometimes I wish I could just go back. Thanks for this really neat video.
Such a wonderful video. I’m getting so much Home Alone, Sleepless in Seattle vibes lol. Very nostalgic and wonderful times. I miss the 90s tremendously.
@@Squicx imagine my condtion, i strongly think the fast wireless connection and virtual technology and screens specially are destroying youth , poision their minds with fake vanity and short term fame . But my profession is developing more faster transmission of data and my highly genius friends making lamest of work easier and easier through technology . i am working beyond my ethics , thats why i came to search that video , when life was not virtual
I was alive back then and they seem like much the same as now in my memory. Technology was slightly clunkier, dial up internet was slow and annoying. But really I can't think of any particularly strong differences between then and now. I can't believe there is so much yearning and nostalgia for what I remember as a really boring and characterless time!
@@luornu The 90's certainly had its downsides from what I can try to remember. But at the same time, life was so much simpler back then. Hell even the 2000's decade was a whole lot simpler than the 2010's. Once this new era of technology and media started, things got so much more complicated that you sometimes forget life wasn't always like this.
@@luornu comments like this actually bring me a lot of comfort, and I feel like any time period is what you make of it! Appreciate you giving an honest perspective
One Lady appeared to have had earbud headphones in which was pretty rare. I only knew of the single earphone back then but she had dual stereo earbuds in her ear. Most people had those big bulky old school looking antenna headphones. Nite: cell phone were around then. Rare though.
90s has cellphones lol it already has ericson (idk how to spell it) nokia, motorola, but people doesnt really using it too long. because it just for calling and texting
@@MultiSUNFLOWER18 It seems the entirety of the 20th century was less complicated than the 21st century. Hell even the 2000s were not that complicated.
Not really, people working in offices had to be totally professional. In the 90s I had to wear a suit every day - with shoulder pads!! Along with pantyhose and heels. People get away now with jeans and sneakers
I think you mean less hair product usage. People were rocking their natural frizzy hair more. Nowadays everyone's hiding their true hair type either by a whole bunch of anti-friz, straightening products (for women), or shaving it down to a few millimeters of hair length (for men).
Hell yes it’s not just you . The shit was the color it was supposed to be and natural looking and that’s every race . Even to not looking super aged but aging gracefully as there supposed to be
looks like heaven on earth. simple life. no phones out. imagine being a social person and living in a place like that without social media. never ending heaven . I smoked a joint and just watched this. makes me so nostalgic.
I didn't know either until I did some digging and found out that there was HD VHS invented in 1993. it didn't take off, but this footage still survives
@@UrbanistExploringCities I'm pretty sure these VHS videos from the 90s were digitally enhanced and upscaled by computer software. I mean we have the technology now to make grainy, black and white footage from the late 1800s into colorful, 4K videos.
@@professional.commentator no, this was actually filmed in HD (although you can find upscaled footage from this era). it didn't really take off until the 2000s, and it was killed pretty quickly by blu-ray and hd-dvd. there's a video in the description which explains the format in more detail if you'd like to know more
True. However 1993 was so nearly what 2001 turned out to be for the twin giants but for the truck being parked in the wrong place. An extremely awful day though eclipsed by events since
Not really. You had grunge, which took off in 1991. You had gangsta rap, which started in the late 80s and took off in 1991. You had Bill Clinton as President. 1993 did have some left over late 80s aesthetic too it, but it was 90s. Even in 1990, it was not "cool" to talk about the 80s and walk around dressed like the dudes from Miami Vice. People would laugh at you in the early 90s if you were still living in the pop culture of the 80s, even though the 80s tech and aesthetic were around. To me the early 90s were always an "in between" time of the 80s and 90s.
yea or seinfeld. it would've been some fun and funny sh*t for sure. i remember every second of those two shows. they feel like the real new york to me even tho they weren't even shot there lol
Thank you for this. I am very nostalgic about the 90s - a special time for me, even though I did not visit NYC until later. Every shot of the Trade Center was a little jarring, but profound. Thank you for these memories.
Wow. I'm so amazed by how a short clip can transcend a feeling. This video is a combination of two of the things I love, the 90's and New York City. Was born in '98 so I don't remember anything from that period but oh to live in those years. Thank you for this video. I was watching your video from Jollibee and to my surprise UA-cam brought me here.
And we thought there were to much crime back then. Looking back we had some peaceful times, freedom to travel, walk anywhere together with a crowd of people. We didn't have the uncertainty we have today.
Thank you so much for showing this video brings back lots of memories me and my baggy clothes I was 16 years old and a teen parent those were the best times ever especially traveling to Chinatown in writing the trains and going to the free outdoor concerts dolls don't come around my daughter who was just little now she is 31 years old
I was 11 years old...these videos make me miss my home (Jacob Javitz Center car shows, the 9-5 era & location, grown ups with their Manhattan trench coats my mother was one of these adults heading to their office job in this video).... NY is No Longer, NY anymore... i left the tri-state in 2018!
Living through the 90s as a kid everything was its own treasure box. If you and your friends stumbled upon something cool it was yours to keep for a while. I miss it.
I can't get enough of these NYC videos from the 1990... I passed the bar in 1993...LOL... No iphones... No people just walking like zombies looking into their phones .... beautiful.. I think people actually looked healthier and just better than today! It's that get I have somewhere to get to New Yorker! Social media destroyed the best part of us!
The 90s just seemed like a much better era, just the right amount of technology, the best music, movies, and shows, and mainly everyone was actually happy, too bad I wasn’t even alive back then. I’d really like to live in the 90s.
they weren't anything special. Like a much less interesting greyer version of the late 80s really and as I keep saying not much different to now from my perspective. Really. You aren't missing anything!
@@luornu I can kinda agree with this, that shot of Manhattan from Brooklyn I believe, looks basically the same as it does 20+ years later/now with the exception of the WTC
Great to see 1993 again! I lived in Manhattan for a short time then, and again in 1999. 1993 kinda was still very late 80s in cars/fashion/style. I’ve always noticed that with decades, in which the first couple of years of a new decade are very similar to the final year of the previous. Just like 2000 and 2001 were very similar to 1999
1990s NYC was kind of my time...I was a little kid who went on trips to my grandparents' back then. I was visiting the city all throughout the decade. There was definitely a different flavor and vibe to the area back then and yeah, gentrification over the years has had a LOT to do with eradicating it.
Victoria. I am crushed as I always wanted to go to New York City from the day I graduated in 1987. Alas I am afraid the New York I longed for is way too gone, but for now I will live, and love it here on YOU TUBE.
I went back to NYC after 25 years for the first time this past April and I was saddened to see that so much of its appeal and aesthetic did not stand the test of time. It’s definitely different. Those who long to see NYC that was showcased in films like Home Alone 2, Goodfellas and television shows like Living Single, Friends, etc…are going to be disappointed to see that this NYC is a distant and extinct reality. You just had to be there when it was in its prime.
@@jdomenick4528 you are right my dad owned and drove an NYC taxi and Uber destroyed his net worth after 40 years of hard and dangerous work...he died watching his hard work destroyed I will never forgive NYC for destroying so many lives! Thats why I left after 39 years of my live to live far far away from NYC! I was born and raised there and I will cherish growing up in the most famous city in the world.
I miss the 1990s. In 1 year I got laid off from a job I hated, lost a GF I wasn't going anywhere with, had to sell my 8 month brand new sports car, and I went on unemployment for 18 months, which led me to go back to college to finish my 4 year degree, and then I started getting laid a lot, to make up for the AIDS ridden 1980s. Of all the decades in my life it's the 1990s I miss the most. Despite the insecurity and dissatisfaction, in a way I was happy. I met interesting people, loved and goodbye'd. Optimism and heartbreaks. I was alive!
This must be a special thing for you. It's very very rare to see anything in this high quality of video filmed back then. This was near HD shot on a special type of videotape.
CeeStyleDj it is very special to me cause I remember how New York City was before the gentrification happen & how I was growing up when everything was great !!
Compared with today the 90's seem like a dream world... like a beautiful dream world which is lost forever and only lives on in our memories. 2020-21 seems like a nightmare compared to this beautiful footage and not just because of that virus, in general!
Exactly! Life seemed so simple back then. No social media, no smartphones, ignorance was bliss, freedom in the air, optimistic future. It was so different. Now we're living in a dystopian, hyper-connected, technocratic nightmare.
@@professional.commentator true. even tho i see tons of great stuff on both fb and youtube (and instagram) it can't compete with the simple 90s. i was enjoying books back then believe it or not, lol
@@krisstopher8259 Yea don't get me wrong. I still love social media for what it is, well was. But anyways it's nice to be able to look up anything you want in a matter of seconds. And same here with the books. I used to love reading books every now and then, but this was in the 2000's. Early 2010's is when I started to heavily slack off on reading books.
I went to New York for the first time in 2019 and I loved it! …but I’m positively sure I would’ve loved 90s NY even more too bad I wasn’t even born til 1999.
Wow, there were a ton of people walking on the sidewalks back then. Now, there aren't as many. I was walking around Central Park the other day, and couldn't believe how empty it was.
the source of the video is mentioned in the description. That UA-camr doesn't own the video either, it's from a demo-tape. Just having good fun making a fictional version of this video, I'm not making any money from this particular video.
That was the post card version of NYC back in ‘93. The city actually felt a bit crazier than that tho. The streets were lined with people selling cassette tapes, counterfeit Chinese made handbags and whatever else sold. Time Square was raunchy, and it was more affordable to anyone who didn’t mind the crime. These were the days when NYC was better know as New Jack City, instead of the Big Apple, it was more closely associated with B.I.G. and along with rats, it was overrun with crack.
truly amazing how i cannot differentiate 30 years worth of HD. i've never seen footage from decades ago that could be confused with footage from today due to the highest level of HD! how do did they do that? it obviously wasn't digital in 1993, but analog video tape.
I'm writing a novel set in New York in the 90s. I hope I'll manage to convey the feel and vibe of the city of that time, which for some reason I find very attractive even though I didn't see it with my eyes and all I know about it is through documentaries, footages, stories.. I guess I am idealising it, but I believe that that was the peak of the western civilisation, right before the digital era began. Slower pace, bigger value
See if you can reach out to people that lived in NYC in the 90s, im sure they will have incredible stories that will be great inspiration for your novel ✌
What an era ... Kobe Bryant was in his 1st year of highschool at Lower Merion , the Bulls was dominating the Eastern Conference , Michael Jackson was still healthy and had released his Dangerous album, BLM was years away from existing, there was no social media, Sega Genesis and Super Nintendo were the hottest selling consoles , Trayvon Martin wasnt born yet and George Zimmerman was a small child . what a time the 90's was
1993 was the year I moved to NYC. I remember office fashion being very boring, an over correction of the excess of the 80s probably. All beige and tan. NYC was expensive of course but not like today were you seem to encounter fees just to be allowed to breath. And of course there was still a thriving nightlife of dance places and club kids. That is what I miss most. Of course I am too old for dancing til dawn now anyway.
This was the year I met my husband. I was working at an advertising company on Madison Avenue. 2 years before I was working at WTC on the 92nd floor. Wow! Memories!
on the 92nd floor wow almost all the way up. the view must've been mind blowing. i loved the twins and i still do. damn you 9-11 it destroyed me more or less. if i could live thru someones memories of the 90s manhattan i would
Omg omg omg. It's 1993 again !! LOVE THIS. I like, 1962, the year I was born. 1982, finished high school & was 20 then. I love all your videos !! Well done. 😊 🌈
I was born in 93' but naturally the media I was watching back when I was a child was all the remnants of the late 80's/early 90's. One thing that strikes me these days is how quickly things come and go. Back when I was a kid, discovering the world meant you had to hone in on one thing or another and really go out of your way to experience it. These days, its a stark comparison, everything is at your fingertips and all the answers to your questions are just a few clicks away. Everything is homogenizing and everywhere/everything is becoming less and less special. I can only imagine the sense of awe one would experience when entering a new country, a new city even. New experiences, new types of people and of course new ways of living. Nowadays it seems we all have a lot more in common than we used to and I'm not convinced that that's a good thing. I was born and raised in England but my lifestyle is probably not that distinct from my US counterpart, my European counterpart or even my Chinese counterpart. Long-standing traditions have died and what we're left with is eerily similar replacements; the internet is a big culprit of this. There's certainly a sense of irony in me having these thoughts and sharing them on a platform that's there for millions to see all across the globe, but that doesn't detract from the fact that I wish it wasn't how it played out. I'd give anything to be living in simpler times.
@@mrandrossguy9871 i built ONE foot replicas of them using printed night photos of the facades and some styrofoam in the middle. they stand in my retro cinema room together with the 90s godzilla and many other cool items
1993 June 28 was a very injurious day for me at Con ed Waterside power house?A big boiler tube fell on me from the 7th floor as I was walking to the office..as a result I was taken to Bellevue hospital and it was overcrowded with sick people with the aids virus as they were in hallways as no rooms were available for them and at about 12:30 I was sent home because their was no room for me to stay overnight?This was a tragedy....I will never forget it?After 3 months I went back to work but as cold weather came I had pain all over and went to the dr to see what was going on?That was it for my career in Con Edison bye!
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I miss the 90s so much, it was the last decade of simplicity, the music was so diverse and actually had some creativity behind it, people appreciated the simple things. I’d give anything to go back
I hear ya 🥺
If the US didn't go to war and spend it's money for the people
NY might be still best city in the world
'the last decade of simplicity' what nonsense I was there it was pretty much identical to now. I think back and I really can't see much difference between then and now. Life was just as complicated then as it is now, it hasn't changed.
@Goat.. And on some other side of planet, totally opposite of that... Wars, Destroying and devastation of one culture and diversity, bad propaganda, deaths, NATO bombs faling around, totally ruining moral values. All to make your imperia richer.
Born in 1977 so I got most of the benefit of the 90s. You shouldn't look back it was a great decade but you can replicate a lot of the benefits. Meet up with friends and family in real life as much as possible. Limit your time on social media. Know your neighbours better than you do people thousands of miles away. If you're a parent, don't think there's a murderer behind every tree, there isn't so let your kids play out. When you go to bed, leave your phone in another room. I know I'm a hypocrite writing this on social media but we're on this video because we miss the 90s even if we weren't even born. It was definitely the last "simple" decade.
I'd take any day in 1993 over 2020
If you don’t mind me asking, we’re you alive back then and how was it like living in that time?
Because I’ve always wondered how the 90s were like because I’m personally never going to know because I was born in 2002.
@@cocotaveras8975 Yes I was alive back then, while I wasn't in NY I did live in a major city. This video reminded me a lot of typical feel of a daily routine at the time.The Early 90s were much different from late 90s, in the same way life in 2011 and 2019 were quite different as well.
@@cocotaveras8975 I grew up in Brooklyn in the 80's and the 90's. The best way to describe it was classic. Golden Era Hip Hop , 80s and 90s NY sports teams , and all kinds of places to visit and have fun.
I think many people would echo your sentiment this year!
@youtube watcher thanks for whining
I miss the 90s so much too bad I can't go back *cries in Nostalgia*
I feel you
I feel like the 90's are somewhere, we cant hear them, we cant touch them, we cant see them, but i feel like the 90's still exist somewhere....
In our hearts
On a good Saturday morning, before you turn on social media, and you look out your window and you imagine a world where everybody knew the arrow of progress was going forward, it may not be great, but things were always going to get better than before and people looked at one reality and humanity seemed like it might be converging, you get a little wave of optimism, makes you feel like wearing brightly coloured baggy clothes.... and you think "we'll be back there someday"... well, there it is, that's the 90's.
In east europe
in communist countries
@@paulrussell1207 Amen.
I'll never forget living in NYC with my late uncle for several months. I was 13 years old, and it was a time I still think back on a lot. I used to walk through Wall Street and being mesmerized on the daily by the amount of men and women who I thought were millionaires walking by me. I remember skateboarding through Central Park and breaking my arm. I remember my uncle giving me a daily allowance that I splurged on hot dog stands or bodegas. I remember the two bedroom condominium at 99 John street that my uncle owned up to his passing where I had my own room for the first time in my life. Above all, I remember the amount of children and teenagers my age would roam freely around the streets of NYC, specifically the Financial district; we got into trouble, we kept each other out of trouble, and we were like family eating at one another's house and having sleep overs.
I think the problem with today's era--meaning the early 2010s and current years--is that the world became too connected via technology. The 90s were an individualistic era; younger people moved out of their parents house earlier; we experimented and came to our own conclusions without the influence of the media or today's social media influencers; we experienced life in a stream of conscious manner. That is the triumph of this particular decade--it was all about experience, and someone mentioned in the comments below that this experience was due to the "right balance of technology" being present/accessible.
I'm not going to condemn the modern world, but if I had a time machine, I would go back to the 90s in a heartbeat; make better choices, explore other paths, but experience it nonetheless.
For some of you, mainly younger ones, it is just a decade, but for me and people who hold this decade dearly to our hearts, the 90s was an emotion.
So well written and perfectly put 👏
It is because we were young then :D
And there is nothing wrong wanting to be young again :)
@Been Laden no, you are wrong, even the adults were more vibrant back then.
@@beenladen4924 peep comment above^
I was 16 in 1993, i liked the ear i grew up in being a child of the late 70's, it had many problems but yes life was more simple i guess back then before all this social media was unleashed in the World.
This made me feel nostalgia for a time and place I’ve never touched
i bet no daily mass shooting at that time
don't worry. I was there. The decade was nothing special. The 80s and 70s did have some character. But despite what people in this comment section will tell you, the 90s were much the same as now, just not as many mobile phones (although they were starting to come in then and becoming ubiquitous fast, so it's not the mobile/cell free utopia some people who weren't born or were young children at the time think..)
I am Brazilian and I love so much the cities that I have never been.
@Extra it is when people start being nostalgic for the late 2000's and 2010's. I remember people crapping on everything that was happening at the time. Now it's beloved.
@@kosakata8632 and guns were easier to get too. Isn't that crazy??
In 1993 I was a student at New York City technology college in downtown Brooklyn. Damn. Simpler times. No craziness just normal living.
I miss the 80s and 90s so much and I'm sorry for the young people who never experienced the world pre-911. Everything started to change after that.
But I'm happily surprised to see that there are some young people who are curious about this time. It felt so much warmer, safer, innocent and hopeful ❤️
every romantic side has its negative side. i Wouldn´t call historical peaks in crime in the 80s and 90s, especially in NYC as "warmer, safer, innocent".
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@@gammler0852 the 90s were still the best. Ppl were much happier than today, less stressed, more curious, more innocent, and just lived simpler lives. No more Cold War, crime rates were also going down, less segregation and internal conflicts in society, and America was literally living at its peak era for being the world’s strongest economic powerhouse. Society was simply getting better overall. America was truly the world’s superpower back then!
@@hellfreezer3037 it's not the 90s you miss, it's youth. we all look back at our youth and past with rose colored lenses. A great movie that describes this phenomenon is Midnight in Paris. Watch it if you have not. I used to be like you, pining for the past, but that movie made me get some perspective that the past always seems better because the present is unsatisfying. All we can do is say a prayer of thanks we are alive today and make the most of it. Listen to music, hold your loved ones close, go for a walk, enjoy a meal and try to remember that happiness comes from within :)
America turned into a prison especially after Covid.
I was 15-16 in 1993. Life for me just revolved around going to school, playing Super Nintendo, listening to music, watching WWF and MTV. I had it easy.
everything was super exciting back then. i was a bit younger but we had pretty much the same life even tho i live in sweden lol
I’m about 3 years late to comment on this video, but I enjoyed every bit of it. ‘93 was the year I was born, and though I only spent 6 years in the ‘90s the nostalgia can be overwhelming. Sometimes I wish I could just go back. Thanks for this really neat video.
1985 here, and yes! The 1990s are Just the way I remember them!
I am also born in 1993. But could barely remember 90's.
@kyfaydfsoab If anything we are more 90's cuz we were born there duuuh
I'm 2 years late commenting on your 3 year late comment 😂😂😂
I feel the exact same way about the 1960's (b. 1959) but yeah the 90's were the last normal-feeling decade for me.
The footage of NYC is from a DVHS (DTheater) demo tape.
it's on this video i see the guy with horse tail on the head really he left a comment on this video !
As someone born in 1991 its amazing to see the city in this way
90s...Best era ever...music movies people ..everything at his peak....everything awesome...wish we lived that sweet 90s again...
Totally agree, everything was different in a good way.
Not everywhere was like that but yeah.
Was born in '91. The 90s always seemed like a mystical time to me since I barely remember it
Such a wonderful video. I’m getting so much Home Alone, Sleepless in Seattle vibes lol. Very nostalgic and wonderful times. I miss the 90s tremendously.
3:52 Robert de Niro sleeping
Lol
I really think that’s him . Celebrities were able to go Unoticed a lot more back then.
@@whitneysource I hear you , but that is not Robert Deniro. He looked way younger than that in 1993.
@@TheBammyTVShow your right 😂 😂😂😂😂😂😝
Lmao he look like bob
it feels like SUCH a different time!!
it's a better time
@@Squicx it was a better time
@@himanshu7103 yeah it was!
@@Squicx imagine my condtion, i strongly think the fast wireless connection and virtual technology and screens specially are destroying youth , poision their minds with fake vanity and short term fame .
But
my profession is developing more faster transmission of data and my highly genius friends making lamest of work easier and easier through technology .
i am working beyond my ethics ,
thats why i came to search that video , when life was not virtual
@@himanshu7103 I mean u do u my guy! I'll have your back when you need it!
1:40 lmao that guy turning around checking that girl out😂
Dont blame him. She's beautiful
Hes in the comments lol
@@ricardofigueiredo3437 lol wrong video.. hes in the comments of the video that has 5 million views.
@@JustinK0 ok
@@ricardofigueiredo3437 where?
To be honest i feel like I missed one of the greatest time periods, the 90s look amazing, too bad i wasn’t alive back then.
Me too! The worst part is I was actually born in the 90s but I was too young to remember any of it. It felt like a fever dream to me.
It was!!
I was alive back then and they seem like much the same as now in my memory. Technology was slightly clunkier, dial up internet was slow and annoying. But really I can't think of any particularly strong differences between then and now. I can't believe there is so much yearning and nostalgia for what I remember as a really boring and characterless time!
@@luornu The 90's certainly had its downsides from what I can try to remember. But at the same time, life was so much simpler back then. Hell even the 2000's decade was a whole lot simpler than the 2010's. Once this new era of technology and media started, things got so much more complicated that you sometimes forget life wasn't always like this.
@@luornu comments like this actually bring me a lot of comfort, and I feel like any time period is what you make of it! Appreciate you giving an honest perspective
Not a cellphone in sight, just people living in the moment. I'll leave now...
There were cell phones but it was just to make phone calls no texting or browsing
@oochie wally And it was a bit bulky
One Lady appeared to have had earbud headphones in which was pretty rare. I only knew of the single earphone back then but she had dual stereo earbuds in her ear. Most people had those big bulky old school looking antenna headphones. Nite: cell phone were around then. Rare though.
90s has cellphones lol it already has ericson (idk how to spell it) nokia, motorola, but people doesnt really using it too long. because it just for calling and texting
‘Living in the moment’, lol talk some more shit dickhead. They all look like they are lost in thought. Not present at all.
What would I give to have seen the 90s as a young person. The clothes, the hairstyles, the music. Everything is much more casual than today.
I grew up in the 90's and it was a less complicated time than it is now.
@@MultiSUNFLOWER18 It seems the entirety of the 20th century was less complicated than the 21st century. Hell even the 2000s were not that complicated.
@@professional.commentator I agree. :)
Not really, people working in offices had to be totally professional. In the 90s I had to wear a suit every day - with shoulder pads!! Along with pantyhose and heels. People get away now with jeans and sneakers
@@jennifert3436
BOOM, baby.
This is so inspiring. Born and raised in New York. Thank you trip down memory lane. It's so easy to forget how things used to be.
so weird to see the 90s in hd
I was born in 93, but remembering what I can of the 90s...it felt so warm compared to today. The world doesn't feel the same.
Facts
Is it just me or did everyone have a healthy head of hair back then
Definitely not the teeth 4:57
I think you mean less hair product usage. People were rocking their natural frizzy hair more. Nowadays everyone's hiding their true hair type either by a whole bunch of anti-friz, straightening products (for women), or shaving it down to a few millimeters of hair length (for men).
george costanza was an exception tho lol
@@alvreyes28
It's kind of hard to gauge what's wrong with her teeth from this angle. She was probably poor.
Hell yes it’s not just you . The shit was the color it was supposed to be and natural looking and that’s every race . Even to not looking super aged but aging gracefully as there supposed to be
looks like heaven on earth. simple life. no phones out. imagine being a social person and living in a place like that without social media. never ending heaven . I smoked a joint and just watched this. makes me so nostalgic.
Incredible clarity for a 1993 video I didn’t know the cameras back then were that good
I didn't know either until I did some digging and found out that there was HD VHS invented in 1993. it didn't take off, but this footage still survives
Filmscanning can take you further back in time. Try this.
ua-cam.com/video/NjDclfAFRB4/v-deo.html
Yeah we had electricity as well. Will ya stop. It's not the bleeding 1890's !!!! Jesus.
@@UrbanistExploringCities I'm pretty sure these VHS videos from the 90s were digitally enhanced and upscaled by computer software. I mean we have the technology now to make grainy, black and white footage from the late 1800s into colorful, 4K videos.
@@professional.commentator no, this was actually filmed in HD (although you can find upscaled footage from this era). it didn't really take off until the 2000s, and it was killed pretty quickly by blu-ray and hd-dvd. there's a video in the description which explains the format in more detail if you'd like to know more
The 80's were still alive and well in 1993. Seeing the twin towers in 60fps HD is a game changer! Beautiful footage.
True. However 1993 was so nearly what 2001 turned out to be for the twin giants but for the truck being parked in the wrong place. An extremely awful day though eclipsed by events since
Not really. You had grunge, which took off in 1991. You had gangsta rap, which started in the late 80s and took off in 1991. You had Bill Clinton as President. 1993 did have some left over late 80s aesthetic too it, but it was 90s. Even in 1990, it was not "cool" to talk about the 80s and walk around dressed like the dudes from Miami Vice. People would laugh at you in the early 90s if you were still living in the pop culture of the 80s, even though the 80s tech and aesthetic were around. To me the early 90s were always an "in between" time of the 80s and 90s.
Imagine getting friends like in "Friends" in the year 1994
No, thanks🤣
yea or seinfeld. it would've been some fun and funny sh*t for sure. i remember every second of those two shows. they feel like the real new york to me even tho they weren't even shot there lol
Man this was a flashback, best part was not a cellphone in sight just people out and about without distraction
Thank you for this. I am very nostalgic about the 90s - a special time for me, even though I did not visit NYC until later. Every shot of the Trade Center was a little jarring, but profound. Thank you for these memories.
Wow. I'm so amazed by how a short clip can transcend a feeling. This video is a combination of two of the things I love, the 90's and New York City. Was born in '98 so I don't remember anything from that period but oh to live in those years. Thank you for this video. I was watching your video from Jollibee and to my surprise UA-cam brought me here.
This was absolutely gorgeous. Thanks so much for sharing this with us. It really took me back to somewhere far away.
I was 9 years old in 1993, although I was a young child I remember the vibe in the City back then very well.
@Francis Lindsey Actually I'm 37, I was born in 1984.
@@ronaldrosario7 How would you describe the difference of it then, from now in a sentence?
@@paulrussell1207 I don't understand the question?
And we thought there were to much crime back then. Looking back we had some peaceful times, freedom to travel, walk anywhere together with a crowd of people. We didn't have the uncertainty we have today.
The crime rate was definitely higher in the 90s. Purse snatching was the thing
Thank you so much for showing this video brings back lots of memories me and my baggy clothes I was 16 years old and a teen parent those were the best times ever especially traveling to Chinatown in writing the trains and going to the free outdoor concerts dolls don't come around my daughter who was just little now she is 31 years old
I was 11 years old...these videos make me miss my home (Jacob Javitz Center car shows, the 9-5 era & location, grown ups with their Manhattan trench coats my mother was one of these adults heading to their office job in this video).... NY is No Longer, NY anymore... i left the tri-state in 2018!
Living through the 90s as a kid everything was its own treasure box. If you and your friends stumbled upon something cool it was yours to keep for a while. I miss it.
Like someone's wallet? :D
I can't get enough of these NYC videos from the 1990... I passed the bar in 1993...LOL... No iphones... No people just walking like zombies looking into their phones .... beautiful.. I think people actually looked healthier and just better than today! It's that get I have somewhere to get to New Yorker! Social media destroyed the best part of us!
Big facts social media platforms is a human downfall of simple life
@@Pluty80 totally agree
I’m waiting for someone to point out something silly to you like oh your on social media right now lol
@@alwayslearningandgrowing1234 exactly my point. Thanks for the connection
The 90s just seemed like a much better era, just the right amount of technology, the best music, movies, and shows, and mainly everyone was actually happy, too bad I wasn’t even alive back then. I’d really like to live in the 90s.
I was 6 in 93
they weren't anything special. Like a much less interesting greyer version of the late 80s really and as I keep saying not much different to now from my perspective. Really. You aren't missing anything!
@@luornu I can kinda agree with this, that shot of Manhattan from Brooklyn I believe, looks basically the same as it does 20+ years later/now with the exception of the WTC
crime was higher in the 90s
@@JazDickinson1 i was double your age. the perfect age back then i believe but i can't really compare it to anything. you only get one life
Great to see 1993 again! I lived in Manhattan for a short time then, and again in 1999. 1993 kinda was still very late 80s in cars/fashion/style. I’ve always noticed that with decades, in which the first couple of years of a new decade are very similar to the final year of the previous. Just like 2000 and 2001 were very similar to 1999
1990s NYC was kind of my time...I was a little kid who went on trips to my grandparents' back then. I was visiting the city all throughout the decade. There was definitely a different flavor and vibe to the area back then and yeah, gentrification over the years has had a LOT to do with eradicating it.
Victoria. I am crushed as I always wanted to go to New York City from the day I graduated in 1987. Alas I am afraid the New York I longed for is way too gone, but for now I will live, and love it here on YOU TUBE.
I love you
I went back to NYC after 25 years for the first time this past April and I was saddened to see that so much of its appeal and aesthetic did not stand the test of time. It’s definitely different. Those who long to see NYC that was showcased in films like Home Alone 2, Goodfellas and television shows like Living Single, Friends, etc…are going to be disappointed to see that this NYC is a distant and extinct reality. You just had to be there when it was in its prime.
5:00 that smile is beautiful
I miss old NYC I wish I could go back in time
Society changed so much, that's scary bro
It's unreal how Crown Victoria taxi's are STILL seen in NYC to this day. Now THAT'S a reliable car! =D
Tie Domi doesn’t hurt that they literally have their own garages open 24/7 to fix and maintain them
Not really some people just by them now days cause uber ruined NYC taxi business
@@jdomenick4528 you are right my dad owned and drove an NYC taxi and Uber destroyed his net worth after 40 years of hard and dangerous work...he died watching his hard work destroyed I will never forgive NYC for destroying so many lives!
Thats why I left after 39 years of my live to live far far away from NYC!
I was born and raised there and I will cherish growing up in the most famous city in the world.
I miss the 1990s. In 1 year I got laid off from a job I hated, lost a GF I wasn't going anywhere with, had to sell my 8 month brand new sports car, and I went on unemployment for 18 months, which led me to go back to college to finish my 4 year degree, and then I started getting laid a lot, to make up for the AIDS ridden 1980s. Of all the decades in my life it's the 1990s I miss the most. Despite the insecurity and dissatisfaction, in a way I was happy. I met interesting people, loved and goodbye'd. Optimism and heartbreaks. I was alive!
1993 the year I was in born in this great city !! Born & raised in Brooklyn
This must be a special thing for you. It's very very rare to see anything in this high quality of video filmed back then. This was near HD shot on a special type of videotape.
Lucky you!
i envy you , what you doing now
CeeStyleDj it is very special to me cause I remember how New York City was before the gentrification happen & how I was growing up when everything was great !!
HBhatt I work in fedex & it’s great & why the envy !?!
No smartphones. People just walking, watching the road, clearing their mind, must be heaven
i use to live in the states during the 90s was freakin awesome
Compared with today the 90's seem like a dream world... like a beautiful dream world which is lost forever and only lives on in our memories. 2020-21 seems like a nightmare compared to this beautiful footage and not just because of that virus, in general!
Exactly! Life seemed so simple back then. No social media, no smartphones, ignorance was bliss, freedom in the air, optimistic future. It was so different. Now we're living in a dystopian, hyper-connected, technocratic nightmare.
@@professional.commentator true. even tho i see tons of great stuff on both fb and youtube (and instagram) it can't compete with the simple 90s. i was enjoying books back then believe it or not, lol
@@krisstopher8259 Yea don't get me wrong. I still love social media for what it is, well was. But anyways it's nice to be able to look up anything you want in a matter of seconds. And same here with the books. I used to love reading books every now and then, but this was in the 2000's. Early 2010's is when I started to heavily slack off on reading books.
This is footage from the DTheater DVHS demo tape captured by TechMoan. Credit to where credit is due!
Do you even read bro?
@@mepnababan He edited the credits in after the fact. Originally there was no mention at all where the footage came from. Super scummy thing to do
it's ok dude calm down don't do a nervous poo
Makes a grown man cry remember his younger years and watching everything lose its innocence.
1:15 iconic and classic (: those towers are fucking magnificent, even 20 years later I hate to acknowledge that they’re gone 😢
This is what has been stolen from the people.
I curse these children of jihadist bastards who destroyed the emblem of a part of NYC be cursed we will exterminate you until the last clearly
And less asbestos, that’s for sure. But why do that when we can build ANOTHER One World Trade Center next to the first one?
@@daylightman8459 not the same thing at all but a bit better with twins instead of one single sad tower
I miss the 90's. It must have been amazing living in NYC back then.
lol, you are just stealing video from another source
I enjoyed what he did, and yes I've seen the original footage
Graduated HS in '93. Dude it's almost been 30 years to the month! I feel old. The internet was just being born.
I went to New York for the first time in 2019 and I loved it! …but I’m positively sure I would’ve loved 90s NY even more too bad I wasn’t even born til 1999.
i was born 2005 ...i love 90s and 2000s vibes
Wow, there were a ton of people walking on the sidewalks back then. Now, there aren't as many. I was walking around Central Park the other day, and couldn't believe how empty it was.
Awesome, it's always wierd to see NYC from the 1990s in detail.
the source of the video is mentioned in the description. That UA-camr doesn't own the video either, it's from a demo-tape. Just having good fun making a fictional version of this video, I'm not making any money from this particular video.
@@UrbanistExploringCities Ok, thanks. I'll edit my comment so it doesn't sound so accusing lol. Sorry about that.
That was the post card version of NYC back in ‘93. The city actually felt a bit crazier than that tho. The streets were lined with people selling cassette tapes, counterfeit Chinese made handbags and whatever else sold. Time Square was raunchy, and it was more affordable to anyone who didn’t mind the crime.
These were the days when NYC was better know as New Jack City, instead of the Big Apple, it was more closely associated with B.I.G. and along with rats, it was overrun with crack.
5:07 this is so cute
truly amazing how i cannot differentiate 30 years worth of HD. i've never seen footage from decades ago that could be confused with footage from today due to the highest level of HD! how do did they do that? it obviously wasn't digital in 1993, but analog video tape.
Loved loved loved NYC in the 90’s!! Nothing like it….. not the same today sadly…
I'm writing a novel set in New York in the 90s. I hope I'll manage to convey the feel and vibe of the city of that time, which for some reason I find very attractive even though I didn't see it with my eyes and all I know about it is through documentaries, footages, stories.. I guess I am idealising it, but I believe that that was the peak of the western civilisation, right before the digital era began. Slower pace, bigger value
See if you can reach out to people that lived in NYC in the 90s, im sure they will have incredible stories that will be great inspiration for your novel ✌
What an era ... Kobe Bryant was in his 1st year of highschool at Lower Merion , the Bulls was dominating the Eastern Conference , Michael Jackson was still healthy and had released his Dangerous album, BLM was years away from existing, there was no social media, Sega Genesis and Super Nintendo were the hottest selling consoles , Trayvon Martin wasnt born yet and George Zimmerman was a small child . what a time the 90's was
BLM (Bureau of Land Management) has existed since 1946 and instead of Trayvon, we had Rodney King.
It is interesting to watch old recordings, videos and pictures of New York
Pandemic free wow it’s amazing how it makes me feel looking at all the people so close
yes we all took it for granted
Back than everything was better . Much more spirit and freedom .
I went to university in Long Island, but was always in the city on the weekends with friends. It was a really good time.
I really enjoyed this little trip down memory lane! Wouldn't mind doing it again sometime. 😎
Great footage, I'm feeling super nostalgic right now
This deserves way more views
man i wish first of all that i was from the us, secondly that i was like a teenager in the 90s, love everything about it
ah, 1993, the year I moved to NYC for a 4 year stint on Wall Street at Citi. Thank you sooo much for taking me back....loved it!!
I miss the 90s so freaking bad
It feels so refreshing with no no no smartphones 😆
I used to always carry a book around... THAT'S IT. I'm getting a flip phone.
You can watch videos from 2013 and still get the same experience.
1993 was the year I moved to NYC. I remember office fashion being very boring, an over correction of the excess of the 80s probably. All beige and tan. NYC was expensive of course but not like today were you seem to encounter fees just to be allowed to breath. And of course there was still a thriving nightlife of dance places and club kids. That is what I miss most. Of course I am too old for dancing til dawn now anyway.
1993 still had that 80s look. Hair, cars, etc. Things really started to look different in 1994-1995 timeframe.
1:42 that double take was classic
That guy actually recognized himself in an earlier UA-cam upload of this footage and posted, lol.
Lmaooo
@@Louis-wp3fq do you remember the name of the video?
@@tharamendoza6287 Here it is: ua-cam.com/video/fT4lDU-QLUY/v-deo.html
It's the pinned comment.
You should do a then and now video where you go to the same/similar locations to recreate the shots.
How classic is that skyline shot underneath the Brooklyn bridge starting at 6:13?
agreed!
Isn’t it the shot from friends ? Lol
Hardly any chemtrails. Beautiful.
This was the year I met my husband. I was working at an advertising company on Madison Avenue. 2 years before I was working at WTC on the 92nd floor. Wow! Memories!
on the 92nd floor wow almost all the way up. the view must've been mind blowing. i loved the twins and i still do. damn you 9-11 it destroyed me more or less. if i could live thru someones memories of the 90s manhattan i would
Omg omg omg. It's 1993 again !! LOVE THIS. I like, 1962, the year I was born. 1982, finished high school & was 20 then. I love all your videos !! Well done. 😊 🌈
😌✌ ❤💛💚💙💜
1:19 she’s gorgeous
Love NYC and the ‘90s! Such a great footage. Stunning quality.
Glorious! Today is the ORIGINAL day. There is none other like it. Celebrate it like you should.
I was born in 93' but naturally the media I was watching back when I was a child was all the remnants of the late 80's/early 90's. One thing that strikes me these days is how quickly things come and go. Back when I was a kid, discovering the world meant you had to hone in on one thing or another and really go out of your way to experience it. These days, its a stark comparison, everything is at your fingertips and all the answers to your questions are just a few clicks away. Everything is homogenizing and everywhere/everything is becoming less and less special. I can only imagine the sense of awe one would experience when entering a new country, a new city even. New experiences, new types of people and of course new ways of living. Nowadays it seems we all have a lot more in common than we used to and I'm not convinced that that's a good thing. I was born and raised in England but my lifestyle is probably not that distinct from my US counterpart, my European counterpart or even my Chinese counterpart. Long-standing traditions have died and what we're left with is eerily similar replacements; the internet is a big culprit of this. There's certainly a sense of irony in me having these thoughts and sharing them on a platform that's there for millions to see all across the globe, but that doesn't detract from the fact that I wish it wasn't how it played out. I'd give anything to be living in simpler times.
Great video id like to see you do a time tripper back to NYC in the mid to late 1960's that would also be very interesting .
haha maybe I will once I find very high quality footage of the 60s!
was born 93 wanted to see ny in 93 beautiful video loved it
1:41 Man looking back: Wow that lady seems to be really beautiful
Great time to live in nyc 80s 90s
Thanks for taking us back. Seeing the towers is still painful. The sixties would be nice,I wonder if that can be done
Speaking from experience if you go the other way on the 6 train to the last stop you get some really good pizza.
3:30 Billionaire's Row without the super tall skyscrapers... Looks very different!
1:13 Damn, that good ass quality makes it look like The original World Trade Center is still standing today😔
Say you make a 10 Foot Replica a The Original Complex !
It'll always Live on In Some way If you Want
@@mrandrossguy9871 i built ONE foot replicas of them using printed night photos of the facades and some styrofoam in the middle. they stand in my retro cinema room together with the 90s godzilla and many other cool items
Omg Shoulder pads I’ve always wanted to wear them but they’re so outdated that i don’t think I’ll ever see them in stores ever
I've never been to NY but became a fan from 80s, 90s movies and documentaries.
4:08 Jesus Christ that's beautiful. Little to none of that monstrous looking glass eyesores
Same with 4:32
Modern architecture is a crime against humanity.
1993 June 28 was a very injurious day for me at Con ed Waterside power house?A big boiler tube fell on me from the 7th floor as I was walking to the office..as a result I was taken to Bellevue hospital and it was overcrowded with sick people with the aids virus as they were in hallways as no rooms were available for them and at about 12:30 I was sent home because their was no room for me to stay overnight?This was a tragedy....I will never forget it?After 3 months I went back to work but as cold weather came I had pain all over and went to the dr to see what was going on?That was it for my career in Con Edison bye!