Not true. I was born in 1980 and I definitely remember how dodgy my neighborhood was in the 80's. Being born in the 60's and 70's seems to produce delusions of grandeur.
I was born in 1980 and DEFINITELY lived and recalled all of the craziness of NYC. When you lived in 80s NYC, you had to grow up fast…even as a 6, 7 or 8 year old.
Born in 79 and I can remember being like 5-6 and seeing abandoned burnt down buildings and us kids just playing in those buildings and playing in the rumble of the burnt down buildings. The 80’s was wild for real…
Born in 1975, I remember seeing syringes and needles in the schoolyard playgrounds. My cousin screamed at me to not touch it! And yes, some kids would pick up those needles to play with it. Insanity. How did we survive? Ha ha
I share your sentiment, as well as hoping for a Y2K-forward edition as well... the Wendy's massacre would totally fall under that and like these events, many weren't born yet and I feel the best part of these videos are informing oneself. For many like me, it's a reminder of how things were.
@@yeritsmannyfromdaX They are no where to be found. Now gentrifiers get to walk around in tote bags and look at us sideways like we just moved there after we went through madness in the 70s, 80s and 90s.
18:38-18:45 are photos of Officer Byrne; Officer Anthony McLean (a housing cop shot and killed stumbling upon criminal activity while searching for a missing girl, she was found at a relative's house later); Sgt. John McCormick (killed when an officer and suspect struggled for a gun during a warrant execution, he was supposed to retire the week after); Officer Gary Peaco (an ambulance clipped the car he was in as he and his partner rushed to assist in a robbery with shots fired and he was thrown from the vehicle); Officer Joe Galapo (inadvertently shot by his partner's gun while arresting narcotics suspects); Officer Christopher Hoban (shot during an undercover drug buy); and Officer Michael Buczek (shot trying to arrest suspects on drug charges). 19:04- Victim's name was Judith Anne Wrappe. She exited the subways and was near the home she lived with her aunt and uncle after her waitressing shift. Was a first-year student at Pratt. How long was she here for from Arkansas? ONE WHOLE WEEK. Frank DeChirico was on parole for 5 remaining years for a previous manslaughter conviction when he shot her. He got a 32 to life sentence a year after for killing Judith, and according to online sources has failed at receiving parole again. He netted $27 when he did it.
@@gingergia4169 No problem. New York has an inmate lookup website that is very accurate. DeChirico' s name is very unique and I was able to find him rather easily on the site.
@@coldcrush9no he’s right look at all this bad stuff and u think this decade is the best, yall gotta understand it wasn’t u we’re just young so u feel that way 😂 yall were avg like 1000+ murders per year in those days, what’s so good about that?
Yup I went to ps92 in Brooklyn and red tops use to cover the lobby floor in my building I think things were just as bad as today we didn’t hid it as well as they do today but today love is definitely gone among us. Peace ☮️ and blessings
@@prone2101stop tryna make it seem like today is anywhere close to how it was then u literally seen this terrible video and tried to compare it to things of today, yall had 1000 murders per year back in those days, worse than Chicago is now
I was a young man in April 1984, 23 years old; I remember that massacre well. It really shocked NYers back then. Such crimes then were comparatively rarer than today, now these crimes happen almost every day, or so it seems.
No those weren’t rarer then today those crimes happened a lot yall just figured out things slow asf back then, but reality is this happened way more back then and today is no where close to as bad as it was then lol😂 I find it funny yall old people in the comments are trying so hard to make it seem like today is as bad or worse than it was then when it’s not 😂
@Ty-by6mz I don't know how old you are or if you're even old enough to remember 1984 New York, but I remember it quite well. Crime definitely existed, and it is true the news wasn't as quick as it is today; we didn't have the Internet then, but crime, especially mass murders were certainly not as prevalent as it is today. In fact, it was so much rarer then that people back then were genuinely shocked at such a horrific act, now it happens nearly every day, NYers today are a lot more hardened and jaded than they were then, so they are not as shocked.
I miss the 80s and 90snow at 44 all we see is social media and internet no more seeing people out and about enjoying each others company or nothing everyone is isolated and they wonder why there are so many drug addicts and crime
Mark David Chapman the night he shot John Lennon, was found with a copy of the The Catcher and the Rye (allegedly used in MK-Ultra) in which he had written "This is my statement" and signed Holden's name the protagonistof the book. Later, he read a passage from the novel to address the court during his sentencing. NY Post reported on a possible 2nd shooter? Robert John Bardo, who murdered Rebecca Schaeffer, was carrying the book when he visited Schaeffer's apartment in Hollywood on July 18, 1989 and murdered her. After John Hinckley Jr.'s assassination attempt on Ronald Reagan in 1981, police found The Catcher in the Rye in his hotel room (though with other books).
Had to read that in school, you said used in mk-ultra. I'm not shocked, the us gov is creating super soldiers brainwashing ppl and programming them to commit heinous crimes, member the guy from out of town coming to be subway shooter in NYC. He didn't have no reason but was used as a tool commit an act for distraction and cause distress in the city
77th smh.....they let (name I won't say) sell on the corner of prospect pl. & Utica from 84-87....sounds like a little 3 years...but actually that was a longtime being immune to arrest
Ciao e Bongiornu from Corleone Sicilia. The People who did this video forgot a few Mob hits. Well, lets see. The murders of, Joey Colucci, Nicholas Scibetta, Roy Demeo, Paul Castellano and Frank Dicicco. Just thought I would remind you.
He mentioned Lennon, and all those innocents but left out those Good Fellas?? Speaking of which Jimmy the Gent whacked most of HIS Crew in the Late Seventies but one was killed in the Eighties for robbing connected pushers
@@realnewyorkcityliving2065very true but let me say this. I'm originally from South Jamaica Queens and I have been following statistics since a teenager and I believe that NY politicians fudge crime statistics. Esp murders. So their might be alot of more murders that are not included in the statistical data too make NY look safer than it really is.
At least back then it seemed like there was a fighting chance and people still looked out for one another unlike today if your not in the click .please horrible
@@buzzyuncle340 Thank You for your comment. Yeah. I used to go to The Cypress Hills Pool, Jamaica, near Crescent, when I was A Kid. Great Memories. I also took all of my Clarinet Lessons with Louis Bruno, on Crescent & Etna.
@@slapshot68 I'm originally from South Jamaica Queens and I can tell you as a New Yorker that alot of crime was being manipulated to look a certain way
Yeah, back then in the 80s at least they took care of the situation now you in 2024 crime is on all-time high and drugs and all the stuff all hell is breaking loose we in a different time than the 80s now and now is 2024 in crime is out of control like we’re going backwards instead of going forward and cleaning up our streets and back at least they had the people who could handle the situation just letting things slide and now people are getting attacked every day and the drug epidemic is out of control now was born in the 70s and in the 80s I rather be back then then be here now in 2024 seriously
There was more than one shooter when Lennon was shot. Doctor and nurse statements are different ~ Shot from the back… shot from the front… The truth will come out ~ The whole truth ~ Tavistock, Strawberry Fields and what went on there~ Number 9 / 9 rebmuN
Born in 1982 grew up in the 90s and now 41 years old New York in the 80s was crazy
you would have to be 60s and 70s to have really experienced the 80s...you're too young
you could easily see some shit at the age 4-5 that'll you never forget. Why do people like you have a fetish for telling people they're too young?
How do you know what he went through as a child until '89?
Not true. I was born in 1980 and I definitely remember how dodgy my neighborhood was in the 80's. Being born in the 60's and 70's seems to produce delusions of grandeur.
I was born in 1980 and DEFINITELY lived and recalled all of the craziness of NYC. When you lived in 80s NYC, you had to grow up fast…even as a 6, 7 or 8 year old.
Born in 79 and I can remember being like 5-6 and seeing abandoned burnt down buildings and us kids just playing in those buildings and playing in the rumble of the burnt down buildings. The 80’s was wild for real…
Born in 1975, I remember seeing syringes and needles in the schoolyard playgrounds. My cousin screamed at me to not touch it! And yes, some kids would pick up those needles to play with it. Insanity. How did we survive? Ha ha
I was born 88 so I appreciate this segment I miss old NY R.I.P Old New York smh..
We are returning to the bad old days, crimes in the midtown area hav gone way up
A 18 year old was stabbed to death on Friday smh
@@liljoenyc01there’s ben tons of armed robberies too even in the midtown area
@@slapshot68 just got off parole did 5 years for 5armed robberys smh
Bring back Prohibition✊️
NO BOOZE, NO CRIME, NO SOY MILK, NO COMMIES🇺🇸
80s killed for money ,what they kill for now
Please do a 90s edition
Before America’s mayor
I share your sentiment, as well as hoping for a Y2K-forward edition as well... the Wendy's massacre would totally fall under that and like these events, many weren't born yet and I feel the best part of these videos are informing oneself. For many like me, it's a reminder of how things were.
Im still waiting for a 90s edition! Lol. I was growing up in the 90s and I remember hearing like 4-5 shootings a night. It was wild in the Bronx!
@@yeritsmannyfromdaX They are no where to be found. Now gentrifiers get to walk around in tote bags and look at us sideways like we just moved there after we went through madness in the 70s, 80s and 90s.
They just did.
Jesus...Manhattan looked less occupied during the day during those days. Now theres no space to burly walk lol.
Subway crime always existed. My mom told us in the 80s was worst
18:38-18:45 are photos of Officer Byrne;
Officer Anthony McLean (a housing cop shot and killed stumbling upon criminal activity while searching for a missing girl, she was found at a relative's house later);
Sgt. John McCormick (killed when an officer and suspect struggled for a gun during a warrant execution, he was supposed to retire the week after);
Officer Gary Peaco (an ambulance clipped the car he was in as he and his partner rushed to assist in a robbery with shots fired and he was thrown from the vehicle);
Officer Joe Galapo (inadvertently shot by his partner's gun while arresting narcotics suspects);
Officer Christopher Hoban (shot during an undercover drug buy);
and Officer Michael Buczek (shot trying to arrest suspects on drug charges).
19:04- Victim's name was Judith Anne Wrappe. She exited the subways and was near the home she lived with her aunt and uncle after her waitressing shift.
Was a first-year student at Pratt.
How long was she here for from Arkansas?
ONE WHOLE WEEK.
Frank DeChirico was on parole for 5 remaining years for a previous manslaughter conviction when he shot her. He got a 32 to life sentence a year after for killing Judith, and according to online sources has failed at receiving parole again. He netted $27 when he did it.
The majority of cops in the 1980s We're robbing dealers Of their money and drugs. Police officers then were more crooked than the criminals.
Frank DeChirico was just released on parole back in Nov 2023. After serving 34 years in prison; costing two lives
Wow, thank you for the update! I'm terrible at follow-ups unless they are updated in the media. 😅
@@gingergia4169 No problem. New York has an inmate lookup website that is very accurate. DeChirico' s name is very unique and I was able to find him rather easily on the site.
All history does is repeat itself. What a shame
Voted democrat it turned to s@it, why would they try it again? That’s the definition of dysfunction
That's a myth. Case in point: NY City is now among the safest of large cities.
@@themaskedman221LIES!!
what do you mean repeat? This is just same old plain old gritty New York
@CraigWiggins-cz2qp 2500 deaths back then vs 400 today is a big difference
It's nice to see that even in the 80s, protecting yourself by harming bad guys would get you in trouble lol
Born in Brooklyn in 1972. My teen years were in the 1980s. The best decade ever
Take the nostalgia shades off & get back to reality
@@NicotineRosberg Nerd alert
@@coldcrush9 Oh no I'm so offended..
@@coldcrush9no he’s right look at all this bad stuff and u think this decade is the best, yall gotta understand it wasn’t u we’re just young so u feel that way 😂 yall were avg like 1000+ murders per year in those days, what’s so good about that?
@@NicotineRosberg exactly. i love the 80s too, but let's not ignore the reality.
Barry Allen's Mom seemed like a great lady. Wise woman.
Classic 80s I miss that world 😢😢😢
9:01 Bernard Goetz WAS and IS a Hero for protecting himself.❤
Yes …I’m not mad at him at all for what he did 🤷🏾♂️🤷🏾♂️
I went to school at ps68 in the 80’s I used to see redtops all over my playground and my neighborhood. History tends to repeat itself.
Yup I went to ps92 in Brooklyn and red tops use to cover the lobby floor in my building I think things were just as bad as today we didn’t hid it as well as they do today but today love is definitely gone among us. Peace ☮️ and blessings
@@prone2101stop tryna make it seem like today is anywhere close to how it was then u literally seen this terrible video and tried to compare it to things of today, yall had 1000 murders per year back in those days, worse than Chicago is now
@@prone2101today is no where as bad and we aren’t hiding anything it just simply isn’t as bad u guys were terrible back then
@@prone2101”love is definitely gone among us” well clearly it was never there judging from this video 😂
10:35 lady, your kid attempted to rob the man. It's very obvious you are not his judge.
I was a young man in April 1984, 23 years old; I remember that massacre well. It really shocked NYers back then. Such crimes then were comparatively rarer than today, now these crimes happen almost every day, or so it seems.
No those weren’t rarer then today those crimes happened a lot yall just figured out things slow asf back then, but reality is this happened way more back then and today is no where close to as bad as it was then lol😂 I find it funny yall old people in the comments are trying so hard to make it seem like today is as bad or worse than it was then when it’s not 😂
@Ty-by6mz I don't know how old you are or if you're even old enough to remember 1984 New York, but I remember it quite well. Crime definitely existed, and it is true the news wasn't as quick as it is today; we didn't have the Internet then, but crime, especially mass murders were certainly not as prevalent as it is today. In fact, it was so much rarer then that people back then were genuinely shocked at such a horrific act, now it happens nearly every day, NYers today are a lot more hardened and jaded than they were then, so they are not as shocked.
I remember that awful day so sad
This happened, not long after he was quoted, saying that the Beatles were bigger than Jesus.
the bernie goetz story is hits different i didnt know this
Goetz was just cleaning up the street
@@adamirishconundrum851he ain't got nothing on Collin Ferguson smh 😮
Oh shddd 80s this fire 🔥 do 90s
I spent hours outside the Dakota with all them people. I was 16.
Is it any surprise we're at where we're at in 2024 with the way it was going 40 years ago?
We are way better now than we were then 😂
@Ty-by6mz Nice try. But NOW we are. On that road, anyway
@@wardengentles53 bro what? Idk what ur talking about but nyc is better now than today in a time where yall had 1000 murders a damn year every year
This story was mentioned the book Suburban Gangsters. This was as heinous a thing as I have ever heard of.
She asked me "mummy what's Crack! Classic 80s
Rip Pablo Guzman
It was much more fun and affordable to have fun then.
And very clearly much more dangerous and things were cheaper bc yall made $2 an hour 😂 so rlly sht was still expensive
@@Ty-by6mz Ok ... best time ever.
Any else se the huge similarities of the goats guy and the Joker movie ?
Todd Philips mentioned Goetz as an inspiration for the said film (he actually grew up in NYC and remembered the shooting from his youth)...
I miss the 80s and 90snow at 44 all we see is social media and internet no more seeing people out and about enjoying each others company or nothing everyone is isolated and they wonder why there are so many drug addicts and crime
5:09 Christopher Thomas was released in 2018. Killed 7 kids & 3 adults and is out of prison. This country’s justice system is sick!! Why is he out?
Mark David Chapman the night he shot John Lennon, was found with a copy of the The Catcher and the Rye (allegedly used in MK-Ultra) in which he had written "This is my statement" and signed Holden's name the protagonistof the book. Later, he read a passage from the novel to address the court during his sentencing. NY Post reported on a possible 2nd shooter?
Robert John Bardo, who murdered Rebecca Schaeffer, was carrying the book when he visited Schaeffer's apartment in Hollywood on July 18, 1989 and murdered her.
After John Hinckley Jr.'s assassination attempt on Ronald Reagan in 1981, police found The Catcher in the Rye in his hotel room (though with other books).
Wow that's one of my fav books. We had to read it for English class.
Had to read that in school, you said used in mk-ultra. I'm not shocked, the us gov is creating super soldiers brainwashing ppl and programming them to commit heinous crimes, member the guy from out of town coming to be subway shooter in NYC. He didn't have no reason but was used as a tool commit an act for distraction and cause distress in the city
K
Well well well
This is Literally crazy ‼️ Thank god ppl ain’t Killing with that type of Rage nowadays… Now it’s literally SENSELESS🤦🏾♂️
77th smh.....they let (name I won't say) sell on the corner of prospect pl. & Utica from 84-87....sounds like a little 3 years...but actually that was a longtime being immune to arrest
The Jamaicans ?
It starts at home these people failed at instilling moral values spiritual awareness self respect dignity pride it's so sad
how did they solve crims back then without camaeras or dna
Snitches
Ass woopings!!!!!
Curtis n the guardian angels whom we need again today
Eeny meenie minee moe...he's the one, lock him up😂
Finger prints.
" They shouted Ono no no Ono".....then Yoko shouted back ' ok im coming give me a chance'
Ciao e Bongiornu from Corleone Sicilia. The People who did this video forgot a few Mob hits. Well, lets see. The murders of, Joey Colucci, Nicholas Scibetta, Roy Demeo, Paul Castellano and Frank Dicicco. Just thought I would remind you.
He mentioned Lennon, and all those innocents but left out those Good Fellas?? Speaking of which Jimmy the Gent whacked most of HIS Crew in the Late Seventies but one was killed in the Eighties for robbing connected pushers
So basically nothing has changed. Dam....
Except for the murder rate, back in 80s 2000 to 1800 people got murdered a year compared that to 400 in the later years
@@realnewyorkcityliving2065thanks to republicans, they cleaned up the mess
@@slapshot68 yea I believe Rudy Giuliani cleaned up New York but look at him now it’s a sad situation
@@realnewyorkcityliving2065 watching people jump out of building to their deaths can effect ur mental health in a negative way
@@realnewyorkcityliving2065very true but let me say this. I'm originally from South Jamaica Queens and I have been following statistics since a teenager and I believe that NY politicians fudge crime statistics. Esp murders. So their might be alot of more murders that are not included in the statistical data too make NY look safer than it really is.
Goetz was just cleaning up the street
Can the 80s be it’s own Playlist 😮
And Collin Ferguson was ending Racism
At least back then it seemed like there was a fighting chance and people still looked out for one another unlike today if your not in the click .please horrible
No sht was terrible back then stop tryna Romanticize it and act like it’s better than now just bc it was ur time, sht was terrible back then
@Ty-by6mz says you probably one of those people
The Liberty Ave. Massacre had taken place right around The Corner from where I lived in Cityline, in East New York, in East New York/Brooklyn.
@@buzzyuncle340 Thank You for your comment. Yeah. I used to go to The Cypress Hills Pool, Jamaica, near Crescent, when I was A Kid. Great Memories. I also took all of my Clarinet Lessons with Louis Bruno, on Crescent & Etna.
Alot of this crap been going on
The 80s was horrible horrifying
But fun
@@Tomorrison28u must be a mets fans lol
As a Yankee fan ur right
Lol mommy what’s crack? 😅😢
😂😂
Mommy what's opioids and fentanyl?
real shit
@@BishopJoansie My mom was a crack addict in the 80’s and 90’s. The realest.
"About 30 an 1/8th, honey."
"Greed hit Wall Street"
lennon should have stayed in england.
"This time iam a group of warrior ha..ha...our group fight with guardian until cry ..ha..ha...oppss until sleep".
Sounds like Suge was in on it 😮
Cora-Ann was a total smokeshow
Cora -ann alkaholick 😂😂😂
Where is the guy now... Is he still alive?
I think it was Rossi not Rassi
Ivan Boesky just died a few weeks ago
18:35 Regan's America.
Wow exactly a month to the day i was born 😮
I thought it was the 75th
God bless this man and please let Daniel Penny go
Look up the statistics of crimes from the 70s 80s and 90s
They just let Thomas out of jail last year
Actually 2018. But yes, he was conditionally released.
NYC is still a bad city 😒
When is the last time you visited?
It wasn’t under Giuliani and Bloomberg
@@slapshot68yes it was. I don't know who told you that lie? 😂
@@kenanmccaleb8327 Crime was at its lowest under those 2
@@slapshot68 I'm originally from South Jamaica Queens and I can tell you as a New Yorker that alot of crime was being manipulated to look a certain way
All they see is crime in the city. But that's all they want you to see.
05:49 Officer Kenneth Land Rover
Yoko Ono saying oh no, oh no 😂
You have a strange sense of humour.
@@Wildrover82 it is amazing how a man can get shot 5 times in the back and people find humor in it.
I'm stating the facts of what she said. What's wrong about that???
@@billymaltez8030 how is that funny?
@@billymaltez8030 What’s wrong about it is the emoji you put at the end.
10:30 damn this mom really hit home. got me in the feels
the 80s was crazy it seemed partying good music crime graffiti women loved sex now its stuck up hipsters that dont shower
The good old day's, missed very much.
U just seen a whole bunch of bad sht and said this? Nostalgia is rlly crazy 😂😂😂😂😂
Free lil begging 💯💯💯💯💯
That guy Thomas got released in 2018
Death is death
Yeah, back then in the 80s at least they took care of the situation now you in 2024 crime is on all-time high and drugs and all the stuff all hell is breaking loose we in a different time than the 80s now and now is 2024 in crime is out of control like we’re going backwards instead of going forward and cleaning up our streets and back at least they had the people who could handle the situation just letting things slide and now people are getting attacked every day and the drug epidemic is out of control now was born in the 70s and in the 80s I rather be back then then be here now in 2024 seriously
All crime was way higher back then
What world do yall live in cus 80s were way worse just look it up
Bad bot
Look at young Chuck 13:06 , Trumps biggest supporten XD.
Nyc still rhe same today just more eltronics
No it isn't. NYC went through a total gentrification process back in the 90s and is nothing like this anymore.
John Lennon was shot by the doorman.
Stop bail reform
TO LIVE THERE IN JOSÉ DAYS? LE NO WAS IN A WAR ZONE
Wow look at young Schumer
He was bad then, he’s bad now
Yoko Oh No!
Crazy 80s hello Cocaine naughty 90s hello crack and smack the 20s well what do i but say apart from madness and sadness !
Luv da 80s ,times are worst now
Nothing compares to the crack era, violence was thru the roof
Thank God I didn't live and grew up in that city. It continued to be Fear City after the 70s.
There was more than one shooter when Lennon was shot. Doctor and nurse statements are different ~ Shot from the back… shot from the front…
The truth will come out ~ The whole truth ~
Tavistock, Strawberry Fields and what went on there~ Number 9 / 9 rebmuN
Bernard said fuck blue justice im serving these ninjaz hot shells take dat take dat no Diddy they got hit by a master splinter
🇺🇸💯⚖️👈👉🧠👈🤔
Ha Chuck Schumer looks younger
i love 80s
I think yoko was behind the murder of john lennon.i heard some rumors