Hey Everyone! I'm known for locating movie locations and found myself fascinated with these nostalgic videos. Therefor I was eager to find these locations and see how they look now because NYC is so gentrified and quickly changing. However, in case you're interested or visiting the city. They are standing in front of Miss Lily's (109 Avenue A) and the coffee shop in the background is now called the Yuca Bar and restaurant located at (111 Avenue A) I also want to point out that the pole with all the flyers and stickers is still standing in that very same location and stickers and flyers are still being posted on there.
Absolutely right. I work everyday in this area. After I started work for UberEATS in Manhattan and especially East Village I know every location and bar and restaurant it's amazing to see how it was in 80's.
It's like he recorded it how people 30 years from his time would want to see it. He didn't take any routine details for granted and thought everything mattered... If not now, it would later.
For those people bragging about "it was so much better back then" - Don't you get it? Life is change - time can't be stopped.. The past only seems stable from the present, and the future was unknown for them when it was filmed, too. It's about making the most of today, and embracing the random minute here and there, because at some point we will look back at this uncertain moment and think "It was nice". You can have this feeling now - if you start living in the present. The randomness of this video is just amazing. Back then, film and video equipment was still expensive and people only vidotaped their "ideal" life, weddings, festivities, holidays.. but happens is everywhere. This video inherits a deep, relaxed happyness - so far from the orchestrated reality that is put on screen today as it was back then. They key to happiness is in your mind, not in the "if...".
Well said, plus we can look fotlrward to what's next in society and new memories. The moment. Your advice reminds me of what yoda said in empire strikes back. I think I actually like the present now a lot more lately. Plus like you said, you can take a moment to look back without having to feel unhappy. Plus more can be done to record your life or moment with the ease of a cell phone, and youtube upload. I think society was way more laid back in the 80s, but you are saying that is a point of view, and perspective of the person living in that moment. Very good observation.
Bullshit, I got a time machine and I went to Wichita falls Texas on April 10 ,1979 600 pm, I was 7. And I was in tornado took our house and paw.i miss paw one of the worst to ever hit bitch 🇯🇵🇯🇵🇯🇵🇯🇵🇯🇵🇯🇵
Has someone said "how refreshing to see people not looking at smartphones" yet? Because I'll be blowed if I don't see that EXACT SAME COMMENT on every "blast from the past" video on UA-cam.
I'm loving these videos a real trip down memory lane. I was 18 to 19 in 1987 and had the best time ever. Life was simple decent music etc and no tech and people talked. To each other. Sad that Nelson died two years after this. He would have been in awe with UA-cam. He truly was before his time the first vlogger.
This is really something. I lived on 7th & C from '86 to '97. Hung out in the Wah Wha Hut across the street, celebrated birthdays at Avenue A Sushi, gigged at the Pyramid (both a couple of doors down). Sophie's, Mona's, Vasac's, Chameleon, Lucy's,Beirut, Tompkins' tent city. The Sunday swap meet went for blocks on B. A flood of memories. Thanks for the trip back.
Being born in 1975, I was a yong boy and a teenager during the 1980s, those years were so EXCITING for me that I NEED a 1 way ticket for a time travel machine and never come back to the depressing 2010s...THAT was MY world, a sadly bygone era that won't come back 😓
@liquid lsd could be.. But nah, everything pretty much sucks right now because that's the reality. We are literally living in the "idiocracy era" Things are getting worse by the year.. People are getting dumber, lacking ethical and moral standards, the state of our food supply is worse than ever, products are made cheaper, pollution is progressively destroying our planet, diseases across the board are on the rise, crime is at an all-time high.. I could go on.. the world is in serious trouble and if you don't see that then you must be living in a cave and therefore, good for you.. After all.. Ignorance IS Bliss !!! 😎
This is the intersection of 7th and Ave A, I literally walk around this area everyday and holy shit how it has changed. Interesting to see what hasn't though. That Coffee Shop is now a Mexican food resteraunts, that diner they're sitting in is now Ms. Lily's a Jamaican food resteraunt, the vacant looking lot across the street from them is now The Niagra Bar... I mean just wow, what a trip. It's sad to see certain things go you know, and I see and hear from a lot of people everyday who complain about the current state of the neighborhood, and the gentrification and the yuppies. But things change and not always for the better, it's sad but there's no point romantacizing the past.
Charles Lawson Nothing wrong with that. Just a leading indicator that at the time the lower east side was already gentrified or at least the process was underway with the first wave of art schoolers
Where did those days go?! Nobody staring into their phones checking their emails or playing candy crush or whatever, just people having normal conversations with each other. Love it
exactly. having social media is a blessing and a curse. but I really do miss the times where people were havin pure conversation on the street, school, everywhere and it was just beautiful more meaningful tbh.
Bobby8451 I know. Everyone has became so antisocial and lost touch with actual human conversation. I tell people don't text me if you are at home, for Christ sakes just frigging call me,that's what the Damn phone is for! lol! I miss the 80's and 90's.
I’m addicted to these videos even though I’m an English guy living in China. I did live in Albany NY for a year from 2006-2007 (on a study exchange) and even though I loved visiting NYC, even then it felt pretty disneyfied. These videos take us back to a time before then.
NYC is a pretty hollow shell where everything is derivative and everyone is trying to live the NYC life they were sold by media and people keep thinking they are different, but they really aren't. Real New Yorkers who actually grew up here get pushed out and the new transplants that replace them make me want to punch people.
Cafelogis lol so true. I live in philly and it’s happening the same exact way. And these jerkoffs/ suburbanites think they are just so cool now because they live in the inner city. Makes you wanna start Teeing Off of em 😂
first thing I notice people are actually having conversations with each other. No one staring down at their smart phones. While I do like the technology of today, there are some things I miss about the days before smart phones and social media.
I would like to visit New York City but only if I could find a time machine that would take me there in 1989 before the corporate gentrification started. My dad went to NYC on business in 1989 and said there is nothing quite like being in manhattan and seeing the sun reflect off of the buildings in the early evening. At the time it was still raw and real, dangerous and yet there was wealth and decadence all together. Art, culture, fashion from all over the world and there was crack and cocaine in the alleys and streets as well as in the Wall Street offices. The finest authentic New York restaurants and not corporate chains like today. That is the city I would like to see.
My old neighborhood. Seeing these actual videos of this time and people & place is very accurate. Details of my younger life. Thank you Nelson for having the vision!
Freedom! No cell phones, no texting. life without the internet. People just being people. The better days of social interaction. These where the simple times.
@@rawrvintageisclassic People just being people. Enjoying the fresh air. The better days of social interaction. No zombies staring at no phones. Because all that stuff wasn't invented yet until 20 years later. Look at the life we live in now.
ahaha its a real trip watching this because it shows that folks in East Village were always "hip" lol now when you walk through neighborhoods like East Village you see the new generation of "hipsters", the ones that are the children of these folks. haha doing the same shit that their parents did over 20 years earlier. fascinating
I doubt that the assholes who live in the East Village today are THESE peoples children. These guys weren't the type to have trust funds for their kids.
I was the same way when I was a teenager for the late sixties and early seventies. I think mine started with my love of older music when somebody tries to turn me on to something new I would say I'll check it out in 20 years then I say I'm sure by then I'll like it. But with UA-cam and access to any damn song you ever want to hear kind of running out of new old stuff pretty soon I'll have to settle for new older sounding stuff I guess
Really? Cause I started off at South Ferry and finally went into Eisenberg's on 23rd Street, which isn't a diner nor a coffee shop. The coffee shop in this video is now the Yuca Bar. Too many phony places in NYC.
I don't mean foofy hipster coffee shops with frapafuckingchinos and a fucking tip jar on the counter. I mean a place where you can get shitty drip coffee and a fucking cheese Danish!
In short, a "Coffee Shop" was not a place where you would get a double mocha latte with 2%. And if you were getting your "regular" (milk and one sugar) to go, it was coming in a blue and white cup with faux Greek letters that would say, "It's our pleasure to serve you." But you would want to stay... for the Belgian waffles.
Female 1: “OMG he’s getting us on camera! 💃” Female 2: “Yeeah... I don’t even know why you’re so excited. We are on tape so what? 10 or 20 of his friends will watch us in his living room? It’s not like we’ll be watched by hundred of thousands of people ya know? 🤦♀️” ... 30 years later...
The only thing I can say is thank God for Nelson! He was ahead of his time in terms of video recording everything! I’m sure the people around him maybe sometimes got annoyed and maybe they thought he was recording just the Average boring day but what he did was make a priceless Time capsule of memories that not only the people in the videos can look back at but for people like me who was born in 77 and just missed out on those days can watch and see what it was really like! It’s so sad that he passed way before his time but he left something to this world that’s going to last for so long and be a gift to so many more people than he would’ve ever imagined!
How I could do with some fried perogies from Leshko's right this minute. And a bowl of borscht. Then get an egg cream a few doors down on Ave A. Get a bag of dope, and pass the afternoon listening to Bowie, looking out the window. Kidding about the dope. Maybe.
i was out in tompkins yesterday, finally in the 40ºs after days of it being below 20º. people were just like this! walking around, talking, buying food at the market, enjoying the weather.
I often wonder what I was doing when this was filmed, as in the exact same minute, what was going on in my life at the time, my exact location, like if you could switch a camera on in your life when this was filmed, what would you be doing, are you creating a memory for the future, it is it just a bog standard day you’re having in 1987.
No Google. No internet. No cell phones. No fake bullshit. No selfies. No "reality" TV. No distracted idiots staring into their hand. I MISS MY 80s!!!!!
I watch these videos often, but I've never noticed the vintage They Might Be Giants posters at around 3:15... back when they were still (sort of) a local act!
I'm a Brit and watching this is fascinating. But let's not forget one thing: this was New York at the height of the crack cocaine epidemic and it was one of the most violent cities in America. But saying that, it's that dangerous edge that gave it the great arts reputation known throughout the world. From the mid to late seventies and eighties, the city gave us New Wave, hip hop, flim makers like Jim Jamusch. My sister was lucky to visit New York in 1987 when she was still 17!! But London was kicking in the 80s so that sort of makes it up. There's only one New York, though........
Life seemed simple and laid back in them days. Too bad I was still and infant in 87'. Born in NYC raised in Philly, this is the NY I remember before my mom moved us down to Philly.
what a beautiful time capsule. life before air travel, radio and television. and to think Grover Cleveland had to face the annexation of Hawaii the following year. Sad really.
I love these videos. My hey days. I was a young vibrant teen. Always look at these videos and also see if I happen to catch myself walking somewhere in the background. I miss those days.
nothing beats the 80s. there will never be another decade like it unfortunately. I liked everything about that decade ..lol Even the pastels. I never wore any but it screams 80s still yet...lol 🤘
Others have mentioned Leshko's across the street. The cafe at hand is the 7A Cafe which had nice eggs florentine in the AM. Of course, Odessa just a bit out of camera range further up on A. Mr. Ray's of course. On the east side of A was a nightclub of some sort, but a take out slice pizza place next to it. Down the 7A Cafe was the Pyramid Club. It was a happening time, though by 1987 getting a bit long in the tooth in terms of the crazy art and party scene. I lived on 7th just east of A. Before my building was a basement after-hours spot. Pretty crazy...and yes, before the cell phone, random street conversations were the rule. Of course, it wasn't all a romantic art paradise. Toxic smoke from homeless burning tires and shit would waft into my apartment overlooking the park, which was a very iffy place then. Lots of abandoned buildings east of B, sometimes I'd even take a cab home from a party on C somewhere back to A, though mostly in the early 80's. Things shut down early east of 1st Avenue. And lastly, the Park something or other (edit: The Park Inn I think) on A between 7 and St. Marks...the only place open for a couple blocks, total old school dive bar. Lots of Dos Equis consumed there.
Ah...the days of waking up, socializing, playing, smoking, taking drugs...not a care in the world. No plan, no future...just today. And then one day you wake up and it's all over.
Hey Everyone! I'm known for locating movie locations and found myself fascinated with these nostalgic videos. Therefor I was eager to find these locations and see how they look now because NYC is so gentrified and quickly changing. However, in case you're interested or visiting the city. They are standing in front of Miss Lily's (109 Avenue A) and the coffee shop in the background is now called the Yuca Bar and restaurant located at (111 Avenue A) I also want to point out that the pole with all the flyers and stickers is still standing in that very same location and stickers and flyers are still being posted on there.
Absolutely right. I work everyday in this area. After I started work for UberEATS in Manhattan and especially East Village I know every location and bar and restaurant it's amazing to see how it was in 80's.
It's like he recorded it how people 30 years from his time would want to see it. He didn't take any routine details for granted and thought everything mattered... If not now, it would later.
irsute8833 Exactly!
A little bit.
.....and thought everything mattered if not now, it would later. (To see through the eyes of a historian and true artist)
Yuppies were before hipsters
Precisely.. wow. definitely a great observation
Even the cab driver was happy lol.
For those people bragging about "it was so much better back then" - Don't you get it? Life is change - time can't be stopped.. The past only seems stable from the present, and the future was unknown for them when it was filmed, too. It's about making the most of today, and embracing the random minute here and there, because at some point we will look back at this uncertain moment and think "It was nice". You can have this feeling now - if you start living in the present.
The randomness of this video is just amazing. Back then, film and video equipment was still expensive and people only vidotaped their "ideal" life, weddings, festivities, holidays.. but happens is everywhere. This video inherits a deep, relaxed happyness - so far from the orchestrated reality that is put on screen today as it was back then. They key to happiness is in your mind, not in the "if...".
computername indeed so... and lest we forget, time itself is but a construct.
Well said, plus we can look fotlrward to what's next in society and new memories. The moment. Your advice reminds me of what yoda said in empire strikes back.
I think I actually like the present now a lot more lately. Plus like you said, you can take a moment to look back without having to feel unhappy. Plus more can be done to record your life or moment with the ease of a cell phone, and youtube upload. I think society was way more laid back in the 80s, but you are saying that is a point of view, and perspective of the person living in that moment. Very good observation.
Hey fuck off 70s 80s rocked
Bullshit, I got a time machine and I went to Wichita falls Texas on April 10 ,1979 600 pm, I was 7. And I was in tornado took our house and paw.i miss paw one of the worst to ever hit bitch 🇯🇵🇯🇵🇯🇵🇯🇵🇯🇵🇯🇵
It was much better back then,break dancing was the best
Has someone said "how refreshing to see people not looking at smartphones" yet? Because I'll be blowed if I don't see that EXACT SAME COMMENT on every "blast from the past" video on UA-cam.
jnyc as they’re probably staring at their phones watching these videos !!! Hahah. Love these looks into the past though
Golly I hope not, because I want to be the one to do it.
I bet complaining about those kinds of comments is about as original.
That's because you're an abortion going bad
😂😂I know but did you see the girl with the camera 📷
I'm loving these videos a real trip down memory lane. I was 18 to 19 in 1987 and had the best time ever. Life was simple decent music etc and no tech and people talked. To each other. Sad that Nelson died two years after this. He would have been in awe with UA-cam. He truly was before his time the first vlogger.
I was 19 too
I was 17 I love the 80s miss the music and the life before social media
I was in my teens too. It just brings back so many very nostalgic memories.
@@WhirlOmar im 2004: 05 14 old man now…😂
I bet the guy who filmed this could never have imagined in 1987 that one day the whole world would be able to see his videos.
Actually, he always envisioned it and speaks of it often in specific videos. He knew what he was doing.
I find myself wishing these videos were longer! I'm loving them!
I worked with the original videotapes for an exhibition of them in 1999. They were all either 60 or 120 minutes long. These are edits from those.
This is by far one of my favorite Nelson videos for some reason . He captured the city culture perfectly at this time frame .
Giuliani and the.com bubble gentrified New York the nose Goods bastard. A friend of mine said it's like 12 bucks a pack for Marlboro Reds there.
This is really something. I lived on 7th & C from '86 to '97. Hung out in the Wah Wha Hut across the street, celebrated birthdays at Avenue A Sushi, gigged at the Pyramid (both a couple of doors down). Sophie's, Mona's, Vasac's, Chameleon, Lucy's,Beirut, Tompkins' tent city. The Sunday swap meet went for blocks on B. A flood of memories. Thanks for the trip back.
lucy's is still there, and she's still ferocious as ever
i used to get taken to Avenue A Sushi when i was little. That was like a straight up nightclub sushi restaurant. Hysterical.
HOW ABOUT ,,,,,,SAVE THE ROBOTS ON AVE B ...
That tied bulldog shirt is iconic
They also had spud Mackenzie
Being born in 1975, I was a yong boy and a teenager during the 1980s, those years were so EXCITING for me that I NEED a 1 way ticket for a time travel machine and never come back to the depressing 2010s...THAT was MY world, a sadly bygone era that won't come back 😓
D Adler I am a 80’s kid as well I was born in 77 remember all the cool cartoons we had like he-man and gummie bears
You sound just like me!!
I was also born in 1975 and life just totally sucks now 😞
^ this nigga got it right
@liquid lsd the present SUUUCKS.. I lived through that era and it was as awesome as I remember.. it's not romanticizing.. it's just plain FACT
@liquid lsd could be..
But nah, everything pretty much sucks right now because that's the reality. We are literally living in the "idiocracy era"
Things are getting worse by the year.. People are getting dumber, lacking ethical and moral standards, the state of our food supply is worse than ever, products are made cheaper, pollution is progressively destroying our planet, diseases across the board are on the rise, crime is at an all-time high.. I could go on.. the world is in serious trouble and if you don't see that then you must be living in a cave and therefore, good for you.. After all..
Ignorance IS Bliss !!! 😎
I love this New York City
I agree, I loved N.Y.C. back then from the 1970's until about 1997-98.
Yes me to
I loved the 80s and 90s Cailfornia if i was back then I'll vist new york i would live in Cailfornia
Wise Diva yes very true. There was just something about 80s NY and 90s California that was so awesome I just can’t put my finger on it
@@chadjones6313 yess lkr good old days to bad i never got to experience it
This is the intersection of 7th and Ave A, I literally walk around this area everyday and holy shit how it has changed. Interesting to see what hasn't though. That Coffee Shop is now a Mexican food resteraunts, that diner they're sitting in is now Ms. Lily's a Jamaican food resteraunt, the vacant looking lot across the street from them is now The Niagra Bar... I mean just wow, what a trip. It's sad to see certain things go you know, and I see and hear from a lot of people everyday who complain about the current state of the neighborhood, and the gentrification and the yuppies. But things change and not always for the better, it's sad but there's no point romantacizing the past.
Well at least the crime rate has reduced a lot in new york city since the 80s. Now it is much safer.
Maybe not but you've just done it!
Thank you!! I was trying to place the cross street!!
i wonder what was at the starbucks on st marks before it became a capitalist hellscape
Sofia Licir puerto rico importing co all day
My Uncle moved to NYC in 1987 and was on the music and arts scene. I’m forever looking out for a glimpse of him in Nelson’s videos.
For me personally, the saddest part to think about is that the dogs in the video are now long dead.
Never mind the dogs ...the guy filming this died before any of the dogs did!
I thought the same thing about the dogs
I honestly thought the exact same thing about the Doberman in the thumbnail of this video. That thought is actually what made me watch this.
Not just dogs, potentially also people.
JasperFx like millions of animals and people
I love these videos because it shows the real NYC of the 1980's not the gentrified place it is today!
Jackson Mallick it is the Gentrification start with these out of towner idiots
Dunno man almost everyone in this video is white
So ! what's wrong with that !
Charles Lawson Nothing wrong with that. Just a leading indicator that at the time the lower east side was already gentrified or at least the process was underway with the first wave of art schoolers
D B The urban pioneer art school types in this vid are stage 1 of gentrification
Where did those days go?! Nobody staring into their phones checking their emails or playing candy crush or whatever, just people having normal conversations with each other. Love it
who cares
Bobby8451 Technology, social media sometimes is not the best, to feel really connected.
+Bobby8451. What are you, just rehashing a phrase you saw? You answered your own question within the same text, dip-shit.
exactly. having social media is a blessing and a curse. but I really do miss the times where people were havin pure conversation on the street, school, everywhere and it was just beautiful more meaningful tbh.
Bobby8451 I know. Everyone has became so antisocial and lost touch with actual human conversation. I tell people don't text me if you are at home, for Christ sakes just frigging call me,that's what the Damn phone is for! lol! I miss the 80's and 90's.
Man...Living in NY was rough but I loved it! So many great adventures in that city.
where about in nyc did you live and when!? Love to hear the stories.
I’m addicted to these videos even though I’m an English guy living in China. I did live in Albany NY for a year from 2006-2007 (on a study exchange) and even though I loved visiting NYC, even then it felt pretty disneyfied. These videos take us back to a time before then.
Yes you are absolutely right. Today’s NY is like a corporate Disneyland
NYC is a pretty hollow shell where everything is derivative and everyone is trying to live the NYC life they were sold by media and people keep thinking they are different, but they really aren't. Real New Yorkers who actually grew up here get pushed out and the new transplants that replace them make me want to punch people.
Cafelogis lol so true. I live in philly and it’s happening the same exact way.
And these jerkoffs/ suburbanites think they are just so cool now because they live in the inner city. Makes you wanna start Teeing Off of em 😂
I love the snake girl's apartment and the building itself. Might look dumpy to some but I think it's got character, I'd live there.
Me too!!
Very artsy and eccentric..
I LOVE it !! 💖
I’m thinking of you today Nelson.
first thing I notice people are actually having conversations with each other. No one staring down at their smart phones. While I do like the technology of today, there are some things I miss about the days before smart phones and social media.
they know each other so how is that the same thing?
Absolutely.
Hm where is my smartphone ? have you seen it?
If they had such tech they would be.
You people are idiots.
Then go outside and socialize instead of leaving this comment if you really do "miss" those days
This is the second video from 1987 to pop up in my feed and I just cant get over how good the video quality is!
I would like to visit New York City but only if I could find a time machine that would take me there in 1989 before the corporate gentrification started. My dad went to NYC on business in 1989 and said there is nothing quite like being in manhattan and seeing the sun reflect off of the buildings in the early evening. At the time it was still raw and real, dangerous and yet there was wealth and decadence all together. Art, culture, fashion from all over the world and there was crack and cocaine in the alleys and streets as well as in the Wall Street offices. The finest authentic New York restaurants and not corporate chains like today. That is the city I would like to see.
Don nix still is crack everywhere
Don nix sounds like New York today lol
My old neighborhood. Seeing these actual videos of this time and people & place is very accurate. Details of my younger life. Thank you Nelson for having the vision!
What was that coffee shop in the back ground? Is it still there? What street is that? E6th?
5:47 That's right Andy Warhol had just died on February 22, 1987 in New York city (age 58) This video was made in March 1987 soon after.
They Might Be Giants in '87!
+Topher Seymour Tom from Live Skull makes a brief appearance in here too.
That built a little birdhouse in my soul as well!
that sushi guy was cool
Right! I need to know where he is today.
Has anybody tried calling the number on the card?
Watching these videos makes me feel like I'm going back in time.
Freedom! No cell phones, no texting. life without the internet. People just being people. The better days of social interaction. These where the simple times.
Right lol
How is not having cell phones equate to freedom?
@@rawrvintageisclassic People just being people. Enjoying the fresh air. The better days of social interaction. No zombies staring at no phones. Because all that stuff wasn't invented yet until 20 years later. Look at the life we live in now.
All because of a MC Donald’s 1989 video. Now I’m kind of hooked. I was 11 in 87 when the music was awesome, depicts, new order and the cure
ahaha its a real trip watching this because it shows that folks in East Village were always "hip" lol now when you walk through neighborhoods like East Village you see the new generation of "hipsters", the ones that are the children of these folks. haha doing the same shit that their parents did over 20 years earlier. fascinating
I doubt that the assholes who live in the East Village today are THESE peoples children. These guys weren't the type to have trust funds for their kids.
richardvilseck lol you got a point there hehe
richardvilseck These guys weren't the type to HAVE kids... If u can't tell, they are flamers!!
No, their kids nor anyone else who used to live in NYC can afford it.
Crazy
I just want to jump through the video and go explore 1987 lol
I was 2 years old at the time of this video
Out of all the channels i subscribed to this is the coolest one ! Im the one teenager that’s obsessed with anything 70s - 80s
I was the same way when I was a teenager for the late sixties and early seventies. I think mine started with my love of older music when somebody tries to turn me on to something new I would say I'll check it out in 20 years then I say I'm sure by then I'll like it. But with UA-cam and access to any damn song you ever want to hear kind of running out of new old stuff pretty soon I'll have to settle for new older sounding stuff I guess
Wow. A "Coffee Shop" in NYC. Not a Starbucks. Try finding a coffee shop or a diner nowadays. You'll end up walking... and not finding.
+richardvilseck I can think of a few..
Really? Cause I started off at South Ferry and finally went into Eisenberg's on 23rd Street, which isn't a diner nor a coffee shop. The coffee shop in this video is now the Yuca Bar. Too many phony places in NYC.
Really? Because I feel like NY these days is filled with tons and tons and tons of coffee shops, especially in bumfuck Williamsburg
I don't mean foofy hipster coffee shops with frapafuckingchinos and a fucking tip jar on the counter. I mean a place where you can get shitty drip coffee and a fucking cheese Danish!
In short, a "Coffee Shop" was not a place where you would get a double mocha latte with 2%. And if you were getting your "regular" (milk and one sugar) to go, it was coming in a blue and white cup with faux Greek letters that would say, "It's our pleasure to serve you." But you would want to stay... for the Belgian waffles.
I would not be surprised if this was filmed yesterday.
Nelson always gives me exactly what I want! LOL He showed every poster nailed to the pole, and even showed us whats in the bag on the ground... iconic
It’s amazing how much you re recorded in detail. It’s almost like you knew those days were fleeting.
S.O.S Band - No One's Gonna Love you playing in the distance is PEAK 80s!!!!
4:48 if anyone's wondering..
It's almost thirty years ago.. different epoch, different New York
Female 1: “OMG he’s getting us on camera! 💃”
Female 2: “Yeeah... I don’t even know why you’re so excited. We are on tape so what? 10 or 20 of his friends will watch us in his living room? It’s not like we’ll be watched by hundred of thousands of people ya know? 🤦♀️”
... 30 years later...
The only thing I can say is thank God for Nelson! He was ahead of his time in terms of video recording everything! I’m sure the people around him maybe sometimes got annoyed and maybe they thought he was recording just the Average boring day but what he did was make a priceless Time capsule of memories that not only the people in the videos can look back at but for people like me who was born in 77 and just missed out on those days can watch and see what it was really like! It’s so sad that he passed way before his time but he left something to this world that’s going to last for so long and be a gift to so many more people than he would’ve ever imagined!
oh i know, i love that he wasn't shy about recording things and places! i just hope there's more videos to be uploaded!
Who are these people! Somewhere, I hope they are still all friends in NYC, otherwise it is too sad to think about
Ornamental I was thinking the same thing.
That story would make a brilliant movie ...honest
Most of them are dead from drug overdoses
Nelson passed away in 1989 from a heart attack
TheronQRamacharaka but you still draw breath, hallelujah
How I could do with some fried perogies from Leshko's right this minute. And a bowl of borscht. Then get an egg cream a few doors down on Ave A. Get a bag of dope, and pass the afternoon listening to Bowie, looking out the window. Kidding about the dope. Maybe.
You can still get the egg cream on Ave A from the same guy. prob not as good.
Yes! They were the best. Fortunately, Ray is still there.
bag of h or green
I was 4 or 5 years old when the was filmed I truly wish I was there
I love how he moves the camera, feels very intimate.
When I watch these all I think about is the Warriors
Lmao
Thats more 70s...87 was much later...but still nyc before it became disneland (yes i liver here). And...I love The Warriors
I love the silver boots. Very 80's. Also They Might Be Giants at The Village Gate.
I love how Nelson wouldn't say anything sometimes and just film and let things play out.
people seemed so much engaged. refreshing
I miss the 80's
And 90s as well
Depeche Mode 1987
@4:49 S.O.S Band No One's gonna Love you the way I do . Released 1984
They might be Giants poster on the lamp post. 👏
Love 80's fashion
i was out in tompkins yesterday, finally in the 40ºs after days of it being below 20º. people were just like this! walking around, talking, buying food at the market, enjoying the weather.
is it still a crowded place?
@@kvskvs1347 sadly i couldnt tell you. had to move away from nyc when the pandemic hit. i miss EV every day no doubt
Weird, this is 30 years ago and yet people dress the same way today!
There maybe ...not in my small town
Well the 2010s is the revival decade of the 80s, and 90s.
They are trying to live this life, because this was the life that was sold to them to get the transplants to move here.
I love this videos :')
I often wonder what I was doing when this was filmed, as in the exact same minute, what was going on in my life at the time, my exact location, like if you could switch a camera on in your life when this was filmed, what would you be doing, are you creating a memory for the future, it is it just a bog standard day you’re having in 1987.
Thank you Nelson 💖
I love Liz ... What has become of her and all the others? Anyone have any ideas?
No Google. No internet. No cell phones. No fake bullshit. No selfies. No "reality" TV. No distracted idiots staring into their hand. I MISS MY 80s!!!!!
Glad I moved when I did.
Bogie, good to see you.
THANK YOU SO MUCH NELSON !!!!!!! R I P 🎥🎥🎥🎥🎥🎥🎥🎥🎥🎥🎥🎥🎥 THE SOS BAND IN THE BACK GROUND 🎤🎧🎶🎶🎶🎶🎶I MISS THE 80S.
Interesting group of people, you could make a feature film starring these folks.
Indeed
I watch these videos often, but I've never noticed the vintage They Might Be Giants posters at around 3:15... back when they were still (sort of) a local act!
I wonder. What if I called Sushi number today?
ccchakras Did you?
I called the sushi number and although no one answered it was a NYC📱number
Alejandra Ramirez please try again, it'll be cool if you hear 'susi' 😂
@@AlejandraViridiana Wow really?
Hai there haha yeah it’s a New York number and they called me back, but it wasn’t the Asian dude lol its a whole new store obviously 😂😄
awsom times where ppl was freakin and nice .
No starbucks or cell phones. I miss the simplicity of days gone by.
Bobby Siems, drummer from Cruel Story Of Youth in the white T shirt.
This reminds me of MTV's first Real World.
Those were the days when we was fab...
I'm a Brit and watching this is fascinating. But let's not forget one thing: this was New York at the height of the crack cocaine epidemic and it was one of the most violent cities in America. But saying that, it's that dangerous edge that gave it the great arts reputation known throughout the world. From the mid to late seventies and eighties, the city gave us New Wave, hip hop, flim makers like Jim Jamusch. My sister was lucky to visit New York in 1987 when she was still 17!! But London was kicking in the 80s so that sort of makes it up. There's only one New York, though........
Just casually strolling around the East Village with a python 😌🐍
Life seemed simple and laid back in them days. Too bad I was still and infant in 87'. Born in NYC raised in Philly, this is the NY I remember before my mom moved us down to Philly.
what a beautiful time capsule. life before air travel, radio and television. and to think Grover Cleveland had to face the annexation of Hawaii the following year. Sad really.
4:50 that's the SOS Band "Even When You Sleep"! Love that song!!!!
This is how my morninng Sundays always start
To think I was hanging out on that exact same area on my last trip to NY. Wow...
Why do I find these videos so fascinating
They should do a video of all those people nowadays, I'd love to see what they are doing now.
I love these videos. My hey days. I was a young vibrant teen. Always look at these videos and also see if I happen to catch myself walking somewhere in the background. I miss those days.
I went to grad school at hunter college and hung out at village at this time. This is tame compared to what i remember.
love to hear some stories! How much was rent back then? Did you visit the pyramid club and other places where nelson Sullivan would go to?
If you're interested: 7th and A
nothing beats the 80s. there will never be another decade like it unfortunately. I liked everything about that decade ..lol Even the pastels. I never wore any but it screams 80s still yet...lol 🤘
Been watching these vids for a while now and his vision blows me away. He was SO ahead of his time.
These videos are awesome.
Such an interesting group of friends!
Others have mentioned Leshko's across the street. The cafe at hand is the 7A Cafe which had nice eggs florentine in the AM. Of course, Odessa just a bit out of camera range further up on A. Mr. Ray's of course. On the east side of A was a nightclub of some sort, but a take out slice pizza place next to it. Down the 7A Cafe was the Pyramid Club. It was a happening time, though by 1987 getting a bit long in the tooth in terms of the crazy art and party scene. I lived on 7th just east of A. Before my building was a basement after-hours spot. Pretty crazy...and yes, before the cell phone, random street conversations were the rule. Of course, it wasn't all a romantic art paradise. Toxic smoke from homeless burning tires and shit would waft into my apartment overlooking the park, which was a very iffy place then. Lots of abandoned buildings east of B, sometimes I'd even take a cab home from a party on C somewhere back to A, though mostly in the early 80's. Things shut down early east of 1st Avenue. And lastly, the Park something or other (edit: The Park Inn I think) on A between 7 and St. Marks...the only place open for a couple blocks, total old school dive bar. Lots of Dos Equis consumed there.
this was 33 years ago to the day!
Flyer for They Might Be Giants!
This literally still looks like east village today, including the high waisted paints and bomber jackets lol
I love how quirky and sassy they are
I LOVE these videos!
Ah...the days of waking up, socializing, playing, smoking, taking drugs...not a care in the world. No plan, no future...just today. And then one day you wake up and it's all over.
so true
Haha yes so very true
I love the filming skills
I miss those days
Sunday, March 8, 1987 according to date stamp at 0:18
Isaac Pasley That was a very warm weekend. I remember it clearly.
Really?
I was 7 yrs old than and really miss these times
Before all the cornballs moved in .. That or before the culture went cornball.
norakat it’s the culture, it’s every town